Madeline's Birthday Trip

On Madeline's birthday, December 1st, we took her to the Baltimore Aquarium.  This was a much better plan than the doctor's visit I had already scheduled, but is now moved to January.  We started the trip with the dolphin show.  

After it was over, we went down to the tank and watched them swim around.  

After a few little mishaps, we headed on to the rest of the aquarium.  It was a perfect day to go.  I have been on days that it is so crowded you can barely get to each exhibit and you are kind of pushed along.  But, it felt like we had the whole place to ourselves.  It was great!  Madeline loved it and Oliver flirted with a random aquarium worker.  

We stopped at the gift shop on our way out and Madeline chose a giant dolphin and Oliver got a little hammer head shark.  And even more exciting, we made it out in time to beat rush hour traffic home.  It was such a fun day.  I'm so glad that Andrew was able to take off work to celebrate our little girl's special day.