Museums, Aquariums & Zoos

Josh loved science museums.  When we went on our honeymoon he took me to the San Francisco Exploratorium.  He was so excited to share something that he had loved as a child with me.  They have hands-on science activities for you to play with and explore.   I remember he was giddy the entire time.

When we went to Denver in 2009, he had us go to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.  Again, he was all over every activity with so much excitement it was easy for me to feel his energy.  

We've been to aquariums (Monterey Bay, Downtown Aquarium in Denver and the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, UT) which were another thing he absolutely enjoyed.   He loved the fish and turtles.  :)   I love the sharks.  Oh and penguins.  haha  Who doesn't love penguins?

The thing he hated?   Zoos.  100% pure hatred towards zoos.  He felt that we shouldn't keep animals caged and that zoos were not the right place for them.   Sanctuaries were cool in his book, but zoos were evil.   Although he always wanted to give more money to the Hogle Zoo here in Salt Lake City because he wanted to give the animals better enclosures.  If we were going to keep them, we might as well make it as good as we could.  He also hated animals such as Dolphins and Whales being kept in captivity.

I remember when we went to Denver I wanted to go to the Denver Zoo really bad.  Josh did not.  I threw a fit until he agreed to go.  We all went (Christine was with us).   We were only there for a couple of hours before he finally said that he would not go another step further and we were leaving.  haha  I was really disappointed but at least I got to see a bit of it.