The Seattle Aquarium

Okay, I'll warn you: this is going to be a long post! (And a couple of the pictures are blurry because we couldn't use flash.)
We took Adam to the Seattle Aquarium, and he LOVED it!!! We've never seen him get so excited! He wanted to look at everything, and laughed and talked and kicked the whole time! And I have to admit, the place was really cool.
We walked in, and there was a 2-story wall tank filled with all kinds of native Washington fish. The sheer size of it was astounding. Then, we walked around it and there was a wave pool (for the fish that live in the surf), that Adam really, really wanted to go swimming in. :)
Next, we got to the "touch pools," where we touched giant starfish (hard and bumpy) and sea urchins (extremely prickly).

Adam touches a starfish.

We also got to see a giant octopus and a half-circle of floating jellyfish, going around and around.

The giant octopus.
(Adam was enthralled. He tried and tried to touch it though the glass.)

The jellyfish, endlessly circling.

We went outside and saw two kinds of seals and two kinds of otters. We then went into a different building and saw salmon swim upstream into an overhead tank, and a giant domed room where all sorts of fish, sea life, and reef sharks swam around.

Adam with the salmon who made it upstream.

Adam and me in the domed-room tank.

Steve and Adam next to a life-size Orca fin.

Our favorites: Steve loved the otters, Adam enjoyed the octopus the most, and I personally thought the "Ocean Oddities" room was neat. (It had things like feathery-winged fish, garden eels that pop up out of the sand, and cow fish with two horns.)
Overall, it was a fabulous day, and we were very happy we made the aquarium a part of our Seattle adventure.

Then we went to the grocery store and bought fish sticks.