Swimming with the fish's

Sophie was feeling a lot better today, so we headed off to check out Kelly Taltons.

With Sophie's lunch and bottle neatly packed in the stroller, her shoes on and jacket buttoned up, we headed inside. It took me a while to get my breath back when we entered...not from the stunning surrounds, but the cost of the bloody thing! - $28 for 1 adult and a further $20 for a so called 'complementary photo: (below)
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I shouldn't moan too much about the price, as Sophie seemed to enjoy most of it - although the conveyer belt underneath the aquarium freaked her out a little and she didn't like the lobsters all that much either - she did however, get all excited when we went on the 'Penguin Train' through the 'Antarctica display'. I was a little nervous taking her on the ride to begin with as the display sign said it takes between 8-10 minutes and once you get on, there ain't no turning back! We eventaully got squeezed in with a bunch of snotty nose school kids and their teacher on our train...Sophie freaked a little at the start when we went through a revolving tunnel, but soon as she saw the Penguins up close she started waving frantically, giggling and yelling at eachand every one of them!...it did gave the kids on the train thing something to smile at too.

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The place isn't set up that well for little ones, I ended up taking the stroller back outside to the car half way around as it got jammed on the conveyer belt a couple of times, and the amount of stairs in the place with no ramps is a bit of shocker - then the chick behind the front counter gave us a dirty look when we came back through the front entry again- I think she thought we were trying to do a dodgy and go in again without paying...christ for $50 you should be allowed to stay in there all day long!

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But as the Mastercard add says:

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1 adult at Kelly Taltons: $28.00

1 (so called) complementary photo $18.00

1 shit coffee half way through: $3.50

Watching your daughter squeel with excitment when she's -

up close with Penguins for the first time in her life...............Priceless.

She did love the fish swimming around in the tank

but loved the Pengiuns even more...

...she didn't mind the sharks...

but the lobsters freaked her out...I think she had flashbacks of her evil sheets again after seeing it!

Brad