{pfhr} Dancing Sharks

It’s getting harder to find activities we can all do together as a homeschool.  B moves so fast, with so much homework, that I feel like he’s always zooming out of the frame, even when he’s not on a unicycle.

When my friend Kim organised a trip to the Biomes Center,  I was thrilled that we could all go together (and that the new budget said we could all go.)

The shark petting tank was the biggest draw.  M said the other kids named the dogfish the “Dancing Sharks” because they would poke their heads up, and tail walk in the center of the tank.  It took me longer than K to get up the nerve to pet one, it felt like fine grit sandpaper.  The (spines removed) rays felt like really stiff Jello.  K was in such wonder, she held still for 15 minutes on her stool.

So I get to say, I have pet a real shark.

No matter how amazing it is to see an octopus eat, change color, and squirt a jet of water, if you are 3, you loose interest.  So K and I took a walk outside the Biomes Center though the Shady Lea Mill area where it is located right now.

She’s squirmy, messy, often naughty, but pretty.  And Honey Milk balls (More with Less Cookbook -honey, peanutbutter, powdered milk and oats in a 1/1/2/2 ratio) make her happy.

As long as we were at an old mill building, we played find the stream.  I think this must have been where the mill wheel was, because of the really right angled waterfall.

After a refreshing walk in the sunshine, we returned to the aquarium to watch the Rock Scorpion Fish eat a goldfish.  I had to take the curator’s word for it that the fish was not a rock, it’s camo was so good.  But once the goldfish got close, a big mouth opened up and the goldfish disappeared.  It reminded me of a muppet monster, the mouth was sort of upsidedown and comically sinister.

But I didn’t get a photo, it happened too fast. Funny.