Big Fish, Little Fish

On Monday, Casey and I decided to make a trip into the city

to take Orin to the Boston Aquarium.

Here are a couple of the highlights:

This is Orin, checking out one of the three different types

of penguins that live at the aquarium.

and this is the Sea Dragon or, as Casey called him,

"the most amazing thing I have ever seen"

I am not sure who I would have picked as my favorite sea-dweller,

but these surely would have made the top five.

If anyone knows what they are called, please let me know.

As for Orin, it was love at first sight when

he happened upon this sting ray.

He started kicking, waving, and 

babbling uncontrollably.

I felt bad when I had to cut off their conversation,

but we had to move on to...

the piranas...

and frogs...

(yes, that oddly textured thing in the center of the picture 

is, in fact, a frog)

On the way out, Casey made friends with a little penguin...

We promised him we would visit again soon

After the Aquarium, we went on a hunt for the pizza

place that I used to love when I was a kid.

When we got there we found that it had been bought by a different

pizza company, but we were hungry

so we decided to give it a try.

It wasn't bad.

But it wasn't Newbury Pizza.

(Its gone, Andy... I know, I am devastated too)

I guess I will have to move on now and find another

representer of the best pizza in the world.

After lunch, we walked around the city 

and did a little window shopping.

Orin, having used up his small reserve of energy at the Aquarium

snoozed in his stroller.

Which is too bad, because he missed out on seeing a car

attempt the tightest parallel parking job I have ever seen in my life.

The car literally pushed the other two cars out of the way.

Only in Boston.

Or maybe New York, too.

That's it.

In another week, we are headed off to New York,

so Casey can see a far-inferior city.

Until then, let us all dream of penguins...