The Raccoons Ate My Parking Ticket

I like to think that if the parking ticket guy at the Vancouver Aquarium had noticed the two car seats in the back of my car, and lifted his head to notice that at least 75% of the lot was empty anyways....he might have cut me some slack. What parent of young kids is not perpetually 20 minutes late? Especially when those kids are busy having fun at the Aquarium and you can't physically pry the toys out of four hands, when you only have two? And there's no way to pay for more than 3 hours of parking at a time? And "running out to plug the meter" is not as simple as it sounds for all of the above reasons! Does $85 sound fair? I didn't think so either...
Anyways.
We went to the Aquarium yesterday! Maybe you got that already....
Before we met up with our fishy and not-so-fishy friends we took advantage of the glorious fall weather and ate our snacks on the grounds. All was well until...these guys crashed the party!

They just crawled out of the bushes like that, right between Liam and I! I stomped my feet and shooed them away, but to no effect. Sarah tried too....she didn't have any luck either. So we cut our picnic short and went for a walk, but we must smell like good cookin' because those raccoons followed us everywhere! Sarah was not impressed.


What she does like though, are fistfuls of crunchy leaves. And ducks!




Into the aquarium now, where both kids launched a raccoon-like assault on Jacob. Poor kid didn't see the Cox storm rolling in until it was right in his face and wouldn't leave him alone!

The kids were probably more interested in Jacob than the fish, but we did see some interesting creatures. And Merran, just be warned. Liam would like to know what exactly fish do. I told him to ask you. :)