A day at the Aquarium :)

Hi it's Lisa. Its been awhile since I've written... I've decided that Angie is a FAR better writer so I leave most of the blogging to her :)
Dad completed a full month of going to Provenience Elder Place center on Thursday. He has been doing great getting up at 7:30 every morning and dealing with me being his drill Sargent! We were laughing last night about how I am punctual to a fault and make dad sit outside in the rain for 15 mins waiting for the bus :) I have honestly been enjoying my mornings with dad, but at the same time it isn't as much quality of time as I have been able to spend with him in the past. Thankfully, Sunday Angie and I were able to take dad to the Aquarium! Angie was having a random conversation with him a few weeks ago and he said he had never been to the Seattle Aquarium, so we thought it would be a fun outing. It is hard to take dad places like that alone, so it was great that we both had Sunday open and could make an enjoyable day out of it! 
I think it was safe to say we all agreed the Aquarium wasn't as cool as we were expecting (at least for three adults!), but fun none the less :) We touched a sea star/star fish, saw some clown fish. sea otters and river otters, but I think the highlight was watching the octopus get fed! I got some decent pictures of the octopus changing colors and expanding as it went for its food!
After the Aquarium we took dad to lunch at Ivars! We were able to sit in the bar and watch the first half of the Seahawks game and just hang out.  On our way back to the car we stopped to get dad some ice cream :) We certainly lucked out with with weather!! It didn't start raining until we were in the car on our way home! Thankfully, because I would say the biggest complaint about the day is there is NO handicap parking on the waterfront... Its not a terrible walk from where we had to park but would have been pretty miserable if it had been pouring!

All and all a great day! Looking forward to hopefully having more times to just hang out with dad rather than rushing to get him ready for the bus in the morning!

Getting up out of his chair to get a better look!

The cool octopus!

listening to the info on our Washington waterways from the diver!

looking at all the salmon!

Checking out the Great Wheel....