The Adventures of Sunsette -- Texas again y'all! - Feb. 27

[Alliecat]

"Our housesit wound down quicker than ex-pected.  The people returned a couple of days early -- or rather, we didn't know exactly what day they were coming because they fly standby, and we thought it might be a couple of days later.  They wanted Mum to stay and visit, and Mum wanted to stay and visit, but Mrs. came home with a streaming cold, which, knowing the immune-draining long-haul trip home that awaited, Mum really didn't want.  So we ended up in a hotel for a couple of nights.  It was a nice enough hotel but in a very noisy location -- even before the 10-or-so emergency vehicles went screaming by.
"Our last adventure was a visit to the Grapevine Mills Aquarium, which Mum had glimpsed on a map but didn't ex-pect to be in the vicinity to go see.  It was sooo cool!"


"No flash allowed, so you can't really see me, but we thought this was cute.  Some areas have animated projections on the walls and floor, and in the first room, all these little crabs were running around.  One of these is about to punch the other out."



"Since we love chocolate, we had to have a picture with the Chocolate Chip Sea Star."



"There's a fun little exercise where you can pick a turtle to 'rescue' and it takes you through some of the ailments and injuries human activity causes them, and tells a little about how they are treated by rescue programs."



"Success! with our 'rescued' turtle."



"We're in a fabulous 360-degree tunnel."



"And we saw a couple of caimans up close."





"We are, very sadly and reluctantly, back to winter now, and back in the land of crummy internet where it took 45 minutes (three tries and finally two at a time) to upload these few photos and then access them.  We'll have a few more from the real cameras when Mum gets them downloaded.
"Thanks for reading!"

"Love, Sunsette  "