Sealife Centre

As the boys have a great fascination with fish (and my parents sent us some money for Christmas) I thought it would be nice to visit the Sealife Centre in Birmingham. Forgetting for a moment the nightmare that driving into (and out of... a bit like Dante's inferno, lose all hope of ever getting out!) Birmingham is, we had a great day. The boys absolutely love going to these sort of places, I feel uneasy about zoos, but as we keep fish at home ourselves I can't really moralize about animals in captivity.



So lots of high points, unfortunately I didn't take any pictures as I was worried about losing the boys, Isaac likes to walk now more than being carried so I have two wild things running about the place. We all enjoyed handling the crabs and touching the anemones, the interactive pool with the Rays, the seahorses, the scary sharks and above all the beautiful turtles, one came up to the glass and seemed to nod at Isaac. And amazingly the boys sat through a 4D film with vibrating chairs, splashes of water and funny goggles... and liked the mirror maze at the end, it made me dizzy and a little worried but Reuben really enjoyed trying to find the way out.