Our Family of Six

The Academy of Sciences has an aquarium, a planetarium, a natural history museum and a 4-story rainforest all under one roof.  It is the kind of place that makes education fun. 

rainforest picture courtesy of the Academy

butterflies in the rainforest

birds in the rainforest

The “living roof” design “is like lifting up a piece of the park and putting a building under it.”

aquarium

reptile exhibit

Sisi rode in a car with one of these Brazilian tarantulas once.  I’m not scared of spiders, but this one is a little too big for my taste.  In a cage, fine.  Loose, no way.

Claude, the albino American alligator.

One of the food choices at the Academy. I just thought the translation to “El Hombre Taco” was really funny.