Mother’s day at the Scripps Birch Aquarium

The Birch Aquarium in La Jolla was offering free admission for mothers on Mother’s Day. After a relaxing morning eating fresh fruit and hot baked scones we piled in the car and headed off to see the fish. The Birch Aquarium has some absolutely breath taking exhibits to look at, one of my favorite being the jelly fish. I wouldn’t want to be caught dead in the water with them but they sure are beautiful to watch from behind glass. We all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and I believe mom’s favorite was the Sea Horse exhibit. I was surprised to learn that they have a sea horse nursery where the Aquarium works hard to raise and protect new generations of sea horses. There is even the option to adopt a sea horse, however contrary to how it sounds you don’t actually get to take it home and raise it for your own. We had a great time and opted to leave our bad boy cameras at home, but we did get some fun Hipsta shots. I totally recommend going to the Birch Aquarium if you haven’t been in a while.