Tennessee

We spent Saturday up in Chattanooga.  We have a season's pass to the TN Aquarium that's about to expire so we have to get in our money's worth!  The kids had a great time.  I loved watching Abby wave to the animals and yell "hi!" to the tanks.  And Ryan's getting so verbal and smart, that everything's fun and exciting.  We talked about spider crabs in particular for several days afterwards [I think he was s-c-a-r-e-d of them.  He wanted to know where they live, would they be at the beach or in the pool, would they bite his feet, that sort of thing]. 
After the aquarium we explored the Chattanooga Choo-Choo complex.  I thought it had a lot of potential, but it's old and not well marketed or anything.  The kids enjoyed it though and we took a trolley ride.  We had the trolley all to ourselves, so the conductor gave them special treatment including pulling the string to ring the bell.