For fall break we headed to Chattanooga, Tennessee for a few days. It isn't very far from us and we had heard a lot about how fun it is. We started off the trip at Julie Darling Donuts. Josh is a HUGE donut fan, so he was pretty thrilled to try them. We all throught they were pretty yummy.
Chattanooga is so pretty, one of our favorite things was just to walk around over the bridges and explore.
This bridge was awesome and the boys loved running up and down it
One of the things we heard the most about was Ruby Falls. It was every bit as amazing as we had heard. The boys loved it.
This underground waterfall was amazing! They had lights around it that would change color. It was just breathtaking.
After Ruby Falls, we headed to the Tennessee Aquarium. We ended up buying season passes and are excited to come here again, it was a super good aquarium!
This pool held sting rays and hammerhead sharks that the kids could touch.
McKay was a little freaked out by them, but ended up touch one.
I always love a butterfly garden!
I think my favorite thing about the Tennessee aquarium was the 4 story fish tank. It is enormous and full of sharks, sea turtles, grouper and hundreds of other sea creatures.
The boys were pretty mesmerized by the whole experience.
Another part we loved was the jelly fish. They are the most fascinating creatures!
And pretty beautiful as well.
One of the areas had sea creatures like seahorses, turtles, seaslugs,etc, and I would narrate the what was going on in the tank. Palmer pretended he thought it was dumb, but he sat with the rest of the boyus listening to the narration. Who knew there could be so much drama (especially those crazy seahorses) in an aquarium.
This was the funniest. The turtle on top was trying to mate with the bottom turtle and he would go up and shake his hands in front of her face. The person at the exhibit said it was weird because they weren't even the same species of turtle and she was clearly annoyed with him.
Piranahs.
This fish had a super long nose and just sat with his mouth open It was so strange.
After the aquarium, we just went and walked around Chattanooga. Such a beautiful city.
This is a water exhibit that was so cool. The boys were sad it was too cold for it.
We wandered over to The Ice Cream show and each of the boys got to create their own flavor of ice cream. Sort of like what the do at Cold Stone, but it was soft serve. Pretty yummy.
We are always fans of the pool and Josh is such a cutie with the boys. I'm pretty sure one of these times he is going to throw out his back, but he's a pretty fun dad.
They took turns standing on Josh and then he would throw them off.
See...nice dad.
Face plant...ouch.
We sure loved Chattanooga!
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