A Visit To The Vancouver Aquarium
One of the nicest thing about living the Dot Com Lifestyle is you can have a family fun day whenever you want. As a rule, I never do family fun days on the weekends because that’s the time everyone else does family fun day. So, after lunch at Phnom Penh (which was posted on Twitter), we decided to check out the Vancouver Aquarium at Stanley park.
The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre is a self-supporting, non-profit association dedicated to effecting the conservation of aquatic life through display and interpretation, education, research, and direct action. The place has changed a lot since the last time I’ve been there. Sally loved it and that was the main reason for going. Sally liked it so much that we decided to buy an annual membership.
Given that we went on a Wednesday afternoon, the aquarium wasn’t all that busy - mostly out of town tourists and one family living the Dot Com Lifestyle. Gotta love it. 
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Great pics. Love the stare-down with the squirrel!
Reply to this commentThis place looks more like SeaWorld then a city aquarium. Fun times!
Reply to this commentLol yeah it really does. Those jellyfish are pretty cool though.
Reply to this commentI love the big fish
Reply to this commentjellyfish is really cute
Reply to this commentYeah, they don’t look real!
Reply to this commentIt isn’t near the size of SeaWorld. And not nearly as cool as SeaWorld, but it is nice to go to on a meh day if you’re willing to pay $20 per person.
Reminds me SeaWorld is $70 per person! or was for me when i went in February.
Reply to this commentyeh, star fish looks awesome.. Can’t image that its real
Reply to this commentThose squirrels are crazy. They attack people for peanuts now. When I was younger, they were much more tentative when I offered them a peanut. Now they chase you.
Reply to this commentWe have albino squirrels and regular squirrels on the College Campus in my little town that will literally attack you.
Bully squirrels!
Reply to this commentI love the aquarium!
Reply to this commentYou won’t like the Vancouver one very much… or I didn’t.
It’s tiny compared to SeaWorld in California or any other aquarium i’ve been to and there isn’t as much animals.
Reply to this commenthaha very nice video, you never showed us what car your driving hahaha, i love fishes own a few aquariums myself
Reply to this commentThat is just adorable. You sure know how to make Sally happy
-Mike
Reply to this commentI wonder if people realize your ML “I am blogging this” was not just a cool t-shirt but a reality. It got blogged.
Reply to this commentFor a minute there, I thought you were going to say, “I wonder if people realize that you get paid to wear that T-Shirt?”
Reply to this commentDo you get paid to wear that shirt?
Reply to this commentCan I have one? Very cool!
Reply to this commentHey I will wear it for free. Send me one!!!
Where do I sign?
Reply to this commentAnd - I’m willing to post 4 blog posts over a period of two months with pictures of me wearing it.
Reply to this commentHow about a T shirt contest on your blog, its been awhile since I ve won any T shirt
Reply to this commentSounds like a good idea! Would be fun!
Reply to this commentCute! That is quality time!
Reply to this commentThat was really cute with the ribbit ribbit! and a terrible massacre with the crickets. It’s great to see that you spend quality time with family. Fun time at the aquarium! I may make a visit to my local one soon.
Reply to this commenttat is some nice pic.. I’m gonna go there with my family next time
Reply to this commentNice pictures and very nice video John.
I hope to enjoy your life every day because life is beautiful.
Mario
Reply to this commentWho don’t want John lifestyle? I think we all did!
Reply to this commentI have never seen a black squirrel before
Reply to this commentThis is not PC. You have to say pigmentally-challenged squirrels.
Reply to this commenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_squirrel
[quote]I never do family fun days on the weekends[/quote]
Reply to this commentEnjoy it as long as it lasts. There will be a time when the kids go to school and it becomes difficult to get them out for a day or two.
The obvious answer is home schooling and/or private tutor. Kids today spend way more time in school than they need to. Most kids can get by with 2 hours of RRR and the rest of the time experiencing the world around them. Now if only I could convince my wife that that’s a great idea…!
Reply to this commentLoved the squirrel interaction!!
Reply to this commentLoved the frog massacre and Sally is so cute “rebub”, “rebub”!
Enjoy it whilst it lasts, my daughter is 13 and can barely stand to be seen in public with me
Reply to this commentwhat a darling child! You are such proud daddy!!!
Reply to this commentEven though it is small (and I mention that above) it isn’t a horrible place to go. They do have 3 generation of Belugas (no that Tiqa was born) which is pretty neat and so is the story behind it.
I have some photos from when I went on last Saturday at my flickr set: http://flickr.com/photos/tyleringram/sets/72157608626791156/
Reply to this commentMy youngest got splashed by the belugas on his birthday a couple of years back. He still regards it as one of the most memorable days of his life.
Reply to this commentthey have black squirrels in Canada?!
Reply to this commentThanks for sharing your aquarium visit. I really enjoyed it!
Reply to this commentSame strategy
Never having family holidays on weekends. It is quite calm on other days.
Reply to this commenti have never visited such aquariums in my life
Reply to this commentWhat a sweet child! You must be a proud daddy!!!
Reply to this commentMost of us are here at work while you are spending time with your family at the zoo. Yet we are here at your site to learn how to make money online, from a guy that essentially gets to hang out and have fun with his family all day, haha.
Reply to this commentI really wanted to go there
Reply to this commentWell… if you liked that… you would enjoy this place sooo much
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Such an envy.. a family outing beats anything..
Reply to this commentI hope 1 day I could visit that place. I love the views.
Reply to this commentDamn, never seen a black squirrel! Nice girl. Nice t-shirt! Should have said “Blog This!”.
Hey, that’s a good idea for my next article! Hey, Blog This!
Reply to this commentJust adorable
Reply to this commentjust fantastic.
Reply to this commentAnd dolphins are really great. I love this animals.
Reply to this commentI especially like the photograph of Sally and the squirrel. They compliment one another and seem relaxed in each others company.
Reply to this commentThats amazing, i have never seen a black squirrel before
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