Mystic Aquarium on President's Day

When the entire colony of New England decided to go.  A while ago, when Ian had to open a bank account, I made him do it at the bank that was giving away Mystic passes.  Why did we pick yesterday to finally go?  Being homeschoolers we usually shoot for doing things when the rest of the world is in school.  Yet, on the weekends I usually have 13 children instead of just 11, so we picked yesterday because a) the extra kids were available, and b) we were invited to a Mardi Gras birthday party in the same town later in the day (including the extra guys, we all know each other). 

 It had been a while since we had been there.  So the little ones had a great time.  That place is expensive.  It's like $28 a person.  Yet, there was something I noticed under the Family Pass, which we always opt for seeing as how it is so cost-effective for our group, that they had a single-parent family rate, $30 less than a regular one.  Anyway, I thought that was interestingly cool.

 Belugas were back.

The eleven kids of the day.

Petting a baby shark.

Derek pointed out that this is my fish.  Can you see what it says?  Elephant nose.  Nice child I have, huh?

That's what he looks like.

 Trin is always stylin'.

Mistik Village.  Who would have guessed it was February?

 The birthday house had what we used to, and miss dearly: goats!

 And sheep!

Mardi Gras came a day early.

King cake.

Cassidy got her toes Mardi-grased.

Liam made a new friend, who is exactly like him.