Chuck E Cheese and WINTER!

On Thursday we went to Chuck E Cheese for lunch with my sister and her family.  It was a large Chucky Cheese and the kids had a blast!!!!  They ate a ton of pizza, played a bunch of games, and won junk lol.  It was a whirlwind of kids and we were always making sure we had all six kids!  Everyone had a wonderful time together!

After lunch we parted ways and my crew headed to Clearwater to go to the aquarium.  This is a special aquarium where they filmed the true store he movie The Dolphin Tale.  Last year the kids saw the movie and fell in love with Winter the dolphin.  When I found out that my sister lived so close I knew this had to be one of the stops we made while in FL.  It wasn't the most awesome aquarium I've ever been to, but the kids didn't care.  All the wanted to do was see Winter and they got a front row seat to her show!  We got to see Winter swim around with her friend Hope which is the new rescued dolphin at there facility.  Dolphin Tale Two just wrapped the week before we were there, and the new dolphin Hope is the Star of the second movie.  We got to hear facts about Winter and watch her swim with her prosthetic tale.  From what I understood the aquarium is for injured sea marine animals.  Which means there could be any type of animals there, some are permanent residence and others are being nursed back to health to go back to the ocean.  There were three levels at the aquarium; the top level you can see the animals swim in there aquariums; like the shark angle, otters, dolphin, and turtles.  The lowest level are the bottoms of the aquarium with many different types of fish.  The middle level houses there hospital and care facilities.  The aquarium offers a ticket deal to take a ferry excursion to the Dolphin Tale set building.  We took a twenty minute ride along the Clearwater beach, and boy was it beautiful!  The sets were large and had very interesting facts about the movie.  But our favorite part was the walk through experience of a hurricane!  Its a home that you walk through that's experiencing a hurricane.  Wind is blowing, the power is flickering due to thunder/lightening, and there's rain and water in some areas.  Cooper literally pushed me through the house and told me not to worry because it was not real!  Both the kids bough something neat Allison of course choose Winter and Cooper choose a shark tooth necklace!  We then took a bus tour through the city back to the aquarium.