Zack and AJ's blog entry

Today's blog is guest authored by AJ and Zach!

On Sunday we ate bagels for breakfast.  After bagels, we went to the Long Beach Aquarium.  We waited on line and we played at the fountain.  We started the "wave".

Here is the main hall of the aquarium.  Obviously, there is a huge whale in the middle of it.  On the other side of the whale there was a calf.

Underneath the whale there was a polar bear mascot.

 We watched a show about the rising waters.

 Here is us touching ocean life.  There were starfish, shrimp and sea anemone. 

Here's Zach touching bamboo sharks and a stingray.  We could not touch the fish because they were just there to clean the tank and their scales were too fragile.  The sharks felt like leather.   It was not that scary.

 Here is a big shark tank filled with various species of sharks and two stingrays.  At the time, they were being fed.  The feeder at the far left was telling us about the creatures in the tank as she fed them.

Here is a random guy getting bit by a lorikeet.  He was trying to pick it up but it didn't want to be bothered.

 There was a big net aviary filled with lorikeets that people could walk into.

(The boys didn't want to mention the sea otters, the movies they saw, lunch, the gift shop, the tanks of sea creatures or the educational exhibits.)

On the way back from the aquarium, we saw a Goodyear blimp tethered in a field by the highway.

After the aquarium we went the dog park.  The dog park was underneath power lines and a power tower.  It was fenced in so the dogs couldn't get away.  There were a lot of dogs at the dog park.  There were various breeds.  When we were in the little dog park we sat on a bench and Yorkies were swarming under the bench and us.  We met a lot of the big dogs while Lou and Kipley stayed in the little dog park.  We played fetch with a lot of the big dogs.

And at the end we were sad to leave because we had so much fun with the dogs.

After the dog park we had Thai takeout.

On Monday we went to the LA Zoo.  It was really hot when we went.  According to a thermometer it was 84 degrees Fahrenheit.  We saw lottsa animals including a lioness, deer-like animals, apes, jaguars, river otters, giant otters, komodo dragons, giraffes, elephants, tortoises, flamingos, meerkats, prairie dogs, ocelots, warty hogs, seals, kangaroos, wallabies, koalas and an alligator.

The zoo was divided up into continents, Africa, Australia, South America, Asia.

A giant otter eating a fish

The flamingos were in the rear of the exhibit and all of the sudden they started running out to the front. We think it was because they were being fed.

The next day we went to the dog beach.  Kipley was afraid to go into the water.  There were many shapes and sizes of dogs.  There was one Labrador retriever that was jumping in and out of the water to get a tennis ball.  He lost the tennis ball because he was scared of the big wave coming in.  There was lots of seaweed. 

We were in the water water for a majority of the time.  The water was warmer then Venice Beach.  The waves did not get that high until the end. 

Today we went to see Mr. Poppers Penguins.  The movie was so funny.  The funniest character was obviously Jim Carrey's character.  After Mr. Poppers Penguins we went to Game Stop where we bought Call of Duty Black Ops and Mixed Martial Arts.