Tuesday was really hot. Literally. I was burning. If my mom were to come out to Baltimore she would die. And for those of you that read my blog that see my mom, tell her to read my blog too. Apparently she doesn't have time. Sheesh. She's one of the main people I write this thing for. I don't write it so random strangers off the internet can read what I do. Anyway...
I met Sam and Tori at the aquarium that morning. It cost $30/person to get in, so it was slightly expensive, but I had heard from multiple people that it was well worth it. Right as we walked in, there was a huge waterfall inside the doors. Tori said that's what her house was going to be like one day. We began our journey through the aquarium. It was basically a series of fish tanks I guess in various levels, with descriptions above the tank telling what fish are in that tank, and what part of the world the fish are from. My friend, Jeff, would be living a dream if he were there. I thought it was cool, but not totally thrilling. We ended up going through all of that stuff really fast. We then went and saw a couple of different exhibits, like an Australian exhibit, a Jellyfish Invasion exhibit, and a tropical rainforest area (it was warm, and humid, and there were birds flying around our heads and everything!).
Then it was time for what ended up being the best part of the day...the dolphin training! This actually didn't come as part of the admission, and we paid extra for it. They weren't having a dolphin show the day that we went, but they were doing traing, so we got to watch them train the dolphins! It was all kind of like behind the scenes, and it was super cool. There were even two new baby dolphins in the tank, both had been born within the last couple of months.
After the dolphin show, we got to watch a 4-D movie. Again, we paid a bit extra to see this. It was pretty fun. The audience was distracting though. There were lots of school kids there, so they were yelling a lot. All the tricks still got me though. I always love 4-D movies, they're fun :)
By this time we had seen everything we had wanted to, so we left the aquarium. I told Sam and Tori about a mall that was just a couple blocks down. We went shopping there for a bit. Not any real shopping, just window shopping. Sam was so good to put up with us girls while we did our thing, too.
After shopping, we went to Noodles and Co. and got some lunch (or dinner? idk. it was late lunch.) Tori got me hooked on the Wisconsin Mac and Cheese. It's ultra delish!!
Later that evening, I tried out my apartment's swimming pool. It's kind of lame. But it's a pool atleast. It's on top of the grocery store next to my building. What's really cool about it is that you're swimming, on a roof, in downtown Baltimore. THAT is freakin' cool. What's lame about it is that the deepest it gets is like 6 ft (which is really like 5.5), and it's not very long. I can do 8 total backstrokes going at a leisurely pace. It's all in the shade in the evening, but it's still really nice to cool off and relax in! I'll probably end up going there a lot.
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