Our mission was to watch the penguins march in an outdoor parade, but our mission was full of fail. If I had to summarize the morning, I would want to find some penguins and ask them how they really feel about boyfriend fit jeans for little kids. Rumor has it they judge them unworthy and OMG YOU HAVE TO WEAR SKINNY JEANS WAAAAH.
Even if all of your skinny jeans are dirty.
We missed the parade by just minutes, but they happened to be the same number of minutes that were spent arguing and crying and whining over the lack of clean size 7 girls skinny jeans in our house.
What. A. Coincidence.
ANYWAY.
While our mission at the zoo was to watch the penguins strut their stuff through the snow, what we really ended up doing was hanging out in the aquarium for hours. It wasn't crowded and I was attempting some new kinds of camera magic. Alexis was generally just really interested in watching the fish.
Especially the puffer fish.
Lots of time was spent bonding with the really big puffer fish, but even more time was spent with a certain little puffer fish. It was the little puffer fish with the magical blue eye.
That magical blue eye is indeed magical. It seems to reflect the light of the entire universe as it glows a spectacular shade of blue. It is captivating to the point that you can get lost just standing there and staring and staring and staring.
But, here's the thing.
It is a magical blue eye. Not eyes. The puffer fish has only one eye. On the other side, it has markings that nearly perfectly disguise that it is blind on one side, but they don't entirely disguise the disability. Close. Not quite.
Which just goes to show that you can be twice as amazing as everyone else even when you're only given half as much.