Underwater World – “Cool” say the grownups


It was a busy day yesterday, the MLK holiday, with the kids off school and parents off work. Started the day at the doctor, getting the Dude’s hand X-Rayed. He had injured it Sunday afternoon – in a “fight” with his sister. Monday morning rolled around and he still favored it, meaning he held it out in front of him as he walked around the house – very suspicious looking. The doctor asked him to squeeze her finger, he could barely use that hand to squeeze the doc’s finger. A series of X-Rays came back negative – no breaks, but probably some trauma, strain, sprain on the knuckles and tendons on the back of his hand. Just to keep things interesting, we stopped by Snyder’s on the say home for an ace bandage to wrap the wrist. When we got home, an old friend from his old school had arrived for a play-date.

After lunch, the Dude and I accompanied a (new) school friend and her mother to the Mall of America’s Underwater World. (FYI on the Friends School slide show – click at home page – the friend is the middle one with pig tails on picture 1, the Dude is in orange t-shirt in slide 3 or thereabouts.) The Dude was a little apprehensive to make the trek without Mom or Dad, so I went along. It was very cool. The highlight being the underwater tunnel where you stand on a moving sidewalk (you can step off to observe things more closely if you wish) as it snakes through a huge water tank. The various water wildlife swim around and over you – it’s very intimidating to see a large shark or sting-ray swim about 5 feet over your head. Even the grownups pronounced it “cool”.

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