Jack, Abbott, Kelly and I headed up to Gatlinburg today to check out "Live Babies in Incubators" at the aquarium in Gatlinburg. We saw a billboard today that had that slogan with a baby alligator and a hand holding a human baby. Now, we really didn't think that there were actual human babies in incubators at the aquarium but we were curious enough to drive up there and see what it was about. Turns out, it was about how different mothers incubate their babies and that preemie babies were put in incubators to help them survive and at one time, to help pay for the incubators, they were put on display in a window for people to see the preemies. Creepy? Yeah. The first display was of an incubator with a fake baby in it. However, they had it "breathing" so it was definitely creepy but also had some cool parts because there were baby chick eggs that they had warming and getting ready to hatch. Other than that, we saw lots of other cool fish and sharks and stingrays. Jack had a blast. Here's a few pictures.
Jack read the map to tell us where to go.
I was showing Jack how the school of fish had their mouths open. Thanks, Kelly.
Kelly & Abbott enjoying the fish. Well, Kelly is anyway. Abbott slept the whole time.
Jack getting to know the horseshoe crab.
And the octopus.
Jack read the map to tell us where to go.
I was showing Jack how the school of fish had their mouths open. Thanks, Kelly.
Kelly & Abbott enjoying the fish. Well, Kelly is anyway. Abbott slept the whole time.
Jack getting to know the horseshoe crab.
And the octopus.
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