While my daughter is a major history buff, both of us are aquarium lovers. One of the other reasons for this trip was the Philadelphia Aquarium. It housed one of the few Hammerhead sharks in the world. Unfortunately, 3 weeks before we got there he died. Bummer. But the rest of the aquarium was fabulous.

They have a shark tunnel where you can walk under the tank and the sharks swim over you.

Then the really big tank has the sharks up front and personal.

But the most fun part was the pigmy hippos. We got there at feeding time so we got to watch. Such an amazing creature. Don’t let the word pygmy fool you, they were still over 5 thousand lbs. But compared to the 10k hippos of Africa, yeah they are smaller.

We also caught feeding time at the Piranha rain Forest that was set up for Halloween.

Check out some of the other fish, I take lots of pictures,

They had huge turtles including a snake head turtle.

In closing, I remind you that animals understand love.

Nature will teach us the power of kindness and love if we will just pay attention. So remember to always be kind to all kinds.