Vacation - Day 11 - Shark Week

On Monday, Erik and his dad took Marc for a plane ride. They flew out of Manteo and headed north to the lighthouse in Currituck. Erik flew the plane most the way, with the pilot doing the take off and landings. After the plane ride, the whole family met up for lunch at our favorite restaurant, the Weeping Radish.

After lunch I left Erik there with his brothers and dad to continue enjoying the beer. I took the kids to the aquarium and we were delighted to find out it was Shark Week!! Usually my kids go running through the aquarium to get to the gift shop, but this time was different.

Because Marc learned how to read this year, he wanted to read all the signs. It was so cute - he would read the little posters to Lisey then they'd go try to find all the different types of fish. They also stopped to do all the Shark Week activities, making little shark fin hats, coloring shark pictures, feeling a real piece of sharkskin, each getting a real shark tooth.

Lisey was too scared to do the touch tank, but Marc finally worked up the courage to put his hand in and feel a stingray. Each of the kids bought a stuffed octopus an a t-shirt at the gift shop, and then we stopped at Sonic on the way back the house, of course!!