Night with the Hippos

Tim planned another wonderful overnight trip for the scouts - Adventure Aquarium. This time it was just Tim and Steven and they had a blast!
They even got some "behind the scenes" tours. The top of the big tank (above and below here), and back where the hippos sleep, just like you can see in Dirty Jobs when Mike Rowe spends the day cleaning up after the hippos.

Crazy kid!

This is where they got to sleep - with the baracutta.

The hippos are the big attraction, but have a strict schedule. They were in bed before they arrived at 7pm, but they put on quite the show when the go back out to the aquarium at 9:30. Here is Button. They are amazingly graceful in the water. After she eats her hay she and her friend will spend the entire day in the water, with a bunch of fish. The fish clean the hippos, it's so cool to watch. Really, you can spend quite a bit of time watching the hippos.

Though after their adventure - they came home smelling a bit like hippos. Immediate showers were in order!