Aquarium - in a Mall?!

Today we took Eleanore to Underwater Adventure at the Mall of America. It is a big underground aquarium. The big attraction is a tunnel that lets you walk through the big tank while sea creatures swim all around you. She liked watching the sea turtles the best. In the photo above, that isn't a painting of a sea turtle - that is an actual sea turtle on the other side of the glass tunnel! She kept saying "tur-tle, tur-tle". She looks a bit scared in the photo, not because of the turtle, but because a big shark just swam overhead. Honestly, it was a little scary to me too. It looked like he was swimming right toward us!

For all the production of the attraction, we didn't stay very long. I think it was just about 30 minutes. Since it was Sunday morning it wasn't very crowded. Then we headed over to a nearby restaurant and had dim sum. Yum!