We are members of the Seattle Aquarium and even though we don’t go even close to often enough, the kids love it. We were invited to a movie night last night at the Aquarium, a showing of “The Little Mermaid”. What a treat for us to go into the city. We had big plans for “doing” the waterfront, but little did we know that we could “do” it in about half the time we had planned and we’d be struggling to kill time with 4 kids (5 and under) for over an hour. We really did it, though. Started with an early dinner at Red Robin, walked down to the carousel and arcade and bopped some moles, skee-balled, air hockeyed and collected enough tickets to win 4 crappy fans that broke almost immediately.

We walked down to the aquarium early to see if we could just walk through, but they weren’t letting people in until 7 at it was 5:30 at this point. So we turned back around and went into some shops, had some ice cream, took WAY too long watching a guy make mini doughnuts (hey, it worked…they were amazed and we killed a little extra time!) and finally had wasted enough time to head bac to the aquarium for the movie…….