One if Emma's favorite parts about our stay with my parents was my dad's saltwater aquarium. She would insist we hold her up to the glass or help pull a chair out from the table for her to stand on. This early bird caught most morning feedings and the afternoon sessions if we weren't out, enjoying the excitement the food created in the tank.
Emma got to know by name the inhabitants of my dad's aquarium and would point them out when I asked. She knew the yellow tang who darted around, the pair of casual clown fish (would point out one, then find the other), and the wiggly Midas blenny. She could identify the royal gramma and leopard wrasse when they weren't hiding. I think she even had down the Bartlett anthias by our last day! There are fire shrimp and peppermint shrimp, a fantastic snail who slides along the glass cleaning off the algae and tons of hermit crabs picking through the sand. The aquarium was like a little slice of reef for us to enjoy.
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