Reed had a great time visiting Ba in Tulsa. Gracie wasn't feeling well but she did have a good time despite having a 48 hr illness.
The new Holiday Inn hotel was awesome for $40 a night on priceline. I really liked the suite configuration so Reed and Gracie were able to sleep in the living room area. This allowed us to get a little bit of rest at night.
Since Grace was sick we wouldn't have gotten any sleep if we didn't have the separate room like we did.
See below a pic of Reed taking advantage of the new luggage ride, roller coaster.
We spent a lot of time at aunt Trang's house. When we first pulled up I told Reed... "Look at that car Reed! What kind of car did they get?!?" Emily responded "They got a Lotus!"
Man I was so impressed. I was thinking wow Reed's love of cars is really rubbing off on Emily and she must really be taking an interest in what he and I like.
When I asked Emily how she knew what kind of car it was she said..."It says Lotus really big right on the back of the car."
We had some good sushi at Fuji which Reed enjoyed. Gracie was a seaweed salad eating machine. Its funny how different they are considering Reed won't even touch anything that even remotely looks like a vegtable.
The ultimate was getting to go to aquarium in Jenks. The place was laid out well and had a good collection of fish from all over. One of Reed's favorite books talks about sharks so he has had a fear and fascination with sharks for a while.
He was even a little nervous standing in front of the shark statues at first. But in the end he was ready to sit by the sharks in the shark tank and pose for pictures.
Both kiddos really loved seeing the fish. The fish tanks really were arranged where the fish would swim real close to where you were standing.
Even Grace got to see the fish up close and personal.
In some cases a little too close. Here's a picture of an African snapping turtle that was about 4 feet long and humongous. I carried Gracie really close to him and she pretty much flipped out. Poor baby.
Reed really liked the tropical fish exhibit. Ba showed him all of the fish that she normally swims with. Reed really like the kind of angel fish that are Ba's buddies. When reading his book about fish when we got home on Friday night before bedtime Reed pointed out an angel fish and said "That's Ba's buddy"
Suddenly Reed saw ....two beady eyes.... it was a SHARK!
Actually it was a whole tank of sharks. Bull sharks and white sharts and nurse sharks.
Gracie wasn't happy enough to stay long enough for us to watch the shark feeding but we did get to see the sharks just fly by us as they circled us in the big shark tank.
So we went to the snack bar and got some snacks and decided to go back to the hotel for some much needed naptime.
Of course the day we get back home Gracie was all better and back to being all happy and Reed promptly got a fever and was sick. At least we knew what he was sick with.
