Chattanooga - Makes a great day trip!

On Wednesday, we trekked to Chattanooga to visit the aquarium with Will's girlfriend and future MIL. The main reason for our visit (besides the fact that we bought a membership in May and we need to take advantage of it) was that two penguin eggs had hatched in the past month and they have the baby penguins in the exhibit. Penguins are actually animals that I LOVE, so I was very excited about getting to see them!

Before we went to the aquarium, we ate lunch at a yummy Southern place called Southern Star. It was delicious! While I had high hopes of Will eating well since it was a meat and three type place, he was more interested in what was going on around him and barely ate. That boy!

Once we reached the penguin exhibit at the aquarium, we stayed for quite some time. There were two baby penguins - one month and one week. The one month old penguin was already almost half the size of a full grown penguin and was still covered in down. He looked so grown up already! But, the one week old was so small. We were determined to not leave until we saw it. We were successful! Yea! We finally got to see the dad (who was sitting on the baby) feed it. What an exciting thing we got to see! It was neat that they had the baby penguins and their parents separated from the rest of the penguins with acrylic-type partitions.

I couldn't believe that Will stayed awake through both buildings! That is a first!

We had so much fun with AC and her mom that we're going back again in 2 weeks. Hopefully there will be more baby penguins by then!