On Monday, before the Bible Bowl competition really started, I got to take my youngest son, John, to the Georgia Aquarium. It’s billed as the largest aquarium in the world.
Here’s some video from that afternoon, in which John (in red and white) got to touch some rays and a hammer head shark:
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John is a pretty sentimental little guy; as we walked back to our hotel he got a little bit quiet and thoughtful and when I asked him why he said, “We probably won’t ever see any of those animals again.” When I said we might go to aquariums in some other cities (as we did in Baltimore a few years ago) he replied, “But we won’t see any of those animals that we saw today.”
I guess the bonding from touching these aquatic creatures with two fingers went a little deeper than I thought.
It was a precious afternoon.
