Sunday 29th July
Time for another family outing and it is C's turn to choose where. She chose the aquarium in Camden New Jersey, on the opposite banks of the Delaware river from down town Philadelphia. She had been there on a field trip from day camp (more about US summer camps later) and it was really fun so she wanted us all to go too. It was also too hot, sticky and thundery (the weather does lead to some amazing electrical storms) to consider anything outside so it seemed like a good idea. One favourite thing from each of us - C's was the African penguins, G's the touch pools with sting rays, sharks, blue lobster and horse shoe crabs, M's the poison dart bright blue frogs (is he hatching some plan?) and mine learning that hippopotami don't really swim but actually walk on the bottom of the river bank - watching them being fed from the underwater viewing room was a bit like some strange slow motion scene involving Gloria from Madagascar (go and see the movie if you haven't - it is good fun). We all like the hammerhead sharks, sawfish and turtles in the shark tunnel. A few too many people for our liking - but it was another aquarium notched up in our world tour and the flash-light fish and sea dragons were new ones on us.
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