Everybody Do the Penguin Dance

Today Nana, Charlie, Ruth and I (Dave) headed to the Shedd to check out the new children's area. It is amazing. To give you a sense of how good it is, we ran into our friends Brian and Robert who also have a three year old, Jack, and a newborn, Hank. They were there for their fourth visit since it opened this spring. The highlight for Charlie was riding the ice slide in the penguin costume. As you can see, it was not the highlight for Ruth. She liked some of the fish and enjoyed touching a starfish, but she needs a few more months before she can really appreciate the aquarium. She did, however, enjoy parts of the sea lion, whale and dolphin show. You can see her watching intently as Nana and Charlie are amazed by, I think, a dolphin jumping high into the air. I suspect Ruth's favorite part of the day, however, was nabbing a bag full of cherries from the guy next to us at the show. Fortunately, he did not see to notice and we were able to replace them and run before having to fess up to Ruth's cherry caper.