Will Travel For Penguins

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Remember that time my husband accidentally got ZERO presents from my family for Christmas, except for the one from me? Well, even the one from me fell through, because the day we were supposed to see the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game in Dallas, I was breathtakingly sick. Thus, when Mark's birthday came around, I was nervous about my gift of going to see actual penguins at Moody Gardens in Galveston. I really worried I would get sick and ruin it.
But I didn't! And we loved it! And we took so many pictures!!


Penguins are such social animals! They really liked interacting with us.



The artistic penguin Marley


And my dad says I can't take good pictures! [actually, this was a total accident]

They're snuggling!

Monkey see monkey do. Look at Mark, look at me
 There were other animals besides penguins at the aquarium in Moody Gardens, but that was our primary motivating factor to go. Notice that Mark is wearing his Pittsburgh Penguins hat; I had my Pittsburgh Penguins sweatshirt. We were definitely dressed for success.
Mostly the Gentoo and Chinstrap penguins dominated the swimming, but this King penguin took a dip

 There were touch tanks for various things, like sting rays and jellyfish (and we did get to touch a penguin at the more exclusive "penguin encounter"). I can tell you that sting rays are slimy. I think I touched a jellyfish, but I'm not sure; neither Mark nor I could tell if we had touched the fragile swimming thing or not; it just felt like water. Whatever. Like I said, we were basically there for the penguins.

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