Daniel took his Ham radio operators test in Dallas, Oregon recently!  We went along for the drive, and

ended costing a lot more than Daddy intended when I begged to take the kids to the aquarium!  We were

just going to drive down the coast on the way home, but I saw a few signs and got excited!  So, my sweetie said yes,

and forked over about $50 to make it happen!  Boy was it cool!  There were these amazing glass sculptures in the fish

tanks!  Gigantic glass tubes filled with hug fish and even sharks!  They even had windows in the floor to see them pass

under you as well as over you!  The kids ate it up!  We were there for a very long time snapping photos and ooo-ing!

Take a look!  I just wish I had a flash, or had brought our "real" camera!

This star fish was as big as my head!

look at my barefoot son!  Just can't get that kid to keep his shoes on!

Oh, wait!  What was that?

Okay, it's a bad, bad shot, but here my skittish Anna pets a shark!  She who froze on the way

up a ten foot slide at the park once, only to be passed up by her 18 mo. old baby sister!  The girl who

used to crawl over those grid floors on the play grounds!  Yup, that girl is petting a shark in this photo!

Katie petted some of these things in this tank too, but Ben got the willies when they came his way!

I don't blame him!  I wish the photos of the jelly fish had been better, but here is a sea horse!

While Dan was taking his test we waited at a park.  My phone went funny, and we waited an hour longer than we should have!

I think Dan and I have an almost psychic link, because after a while, I re-booted my phone, and he had been trying to reach me f

or over an hour!  Ooops!  Dang phone!

I think this used to be a drinking fountain, but it made a nice pic!