Sunday with the Sea Creatures

Finally, Aunt Wende let us sleep in a little bit on Sunday morning.  We didn't have to meet for breakfast until 10:00 am - a few more hours would have been nice, but we'll take 10:00 am.  After dinner at Durgin Park in the Faneuil Hall Market Place, along with some shopping and watching some street acts...

 and a stop at Hard Rock Boston after ALL of our city walking...we NEEDED the extra sleep. Durgin Park restaurant and its recipes go back to pre-revolutionary days, 1742.

After breakfast it was off to the New England Aquarium.  Thank goodness Uncle Patrick is a member as we got to go straight inside to the front of a VERY long line. The aquarium sits at the end of a working wharf that was about 3 blocks from our hotel.

We all immediately fell in love with these penguins - and spent quite a bit of time watching them from 3 different levels.  A few of them we kinda got to know - almost gave them names.

We also fell in love with the seals - actually got "kissed" by one during an IMAX movie..."Under the Sea".

They have a HUGE 4-story cylinder tank that you can walk around from the bottom to the top, circling it all the way.  The most famous inhabitant of that tank is Myrtle the Turtle.  She is 600 pounds - and they believe between 75-80 years old.  Myrtle swam past us quite a few times, Sarah got this great picture of her as she swam by.  She is named Myrtle as she was rescued from Myrtle Beach more than 40 years ago.

We even got to like this very interesting creature...the sea dragon.

Remember those penguins we fell in love with?  Well, Aunt Wende said we needed to watch the movie "Mr. Poppers Penguins"...guess what was on HBO that night when we got home.  Yep!  Sometimes, life just works :-)