Sunday, April 26 - old wall, aquarium

After Scott made pancakes, we started the day by walking to the old wall in the Macarena neighborhood (the northern end of our neighborhood).

This street reminded us of Charleston.

This is for you Aunt Marcia - the barber of Seville

Scott, Rosa, and Cody at one of the gates in the old wall.  Macarena is the sign above their heads.  Behind me as I take the picture is the super old Macarena church.

Here are some pictures of the wall...

We hopped on a bus and got off at the University of Sevilla / Parque Maria Luisa.  Rosa suggested I take this picture looking up at these beautiful carvings.

She also suggested this shot.  Smart girl.

And this one.

We walked across the street and over to the aquarium.  It was our mystery ride, or mystery walk, for the day.  Those are when we take the kids on surprises.  It started raining and we heard a lot of whining.

When we got to the aquarium, it was lunchtime.  We popped into the restaurant that was there (Quay Lounge Club) and had an amazing meal.  Here are some moorish lights hanging from the ceiling.  

Rosa and Cody are looking at the kitchen waiting for our food.

Scott and Devon

Rosa loved the pretty carrots that came with one of the dishes.  They had Asian food and we had vegetable tempura, pad thai, and chicken and cashew stir fry.  It was amazing!

Afterwards, Rosa and Devon were ready to enter the aquarium.

And so was Cody.

The aquarium somewhat followed Magellan's voyage around the world.  Here's a list of the food they brought with them for the journey.

How disgusting that they had to eat rat.

I found the aquarium to be absolutely magical.  There were so many sea animals to see.  There were screens sharing information about the different animals.  There was a touching area where you could touch flounder, starfish, and sea cucumbers (in different tanks).

There's a huge tank that you walk around and then walk through in a tunnel.

The rays in this smaller tank loved teasing us by swimming up to the glass.

Hola

First time I've ever seen a black-tipped reef shark.  There were also white-tipped reef sharks in this tank.  Amazing!

Devon pointing to neat stuff he's seeing.

This cayman keps on following this boy around.  Creepy and cool.

I couldn't get enough of it.  Unfortunately there's no season pass.  Although maybe that's fortunate for the kids because I'd be there all the time with them.

Not sure what this building is, but it's next door to the aquarium and we liked how it looks.

A cruise ship actually made it in.  Didn't realize that they could get in so close to the city.  Apparently it was practically touching the sides of the bridge it had just passed to get to this port.

After the aquarium. we took the bus home.  Then we chilled out and I caught up on the blog (for the most part), we booked tickets to Ireland this summer to visit my sister and family (super excited!), and the kids watched some tv.  We mostly ate leftovers at home.

Feria ended and there was a fireworks show at 10pm and midnight.  Unfortunately both kept Scott awake.