Day 10, Mote

While attempting to wake up early. I found it difficult to keep Ash awake in the morning. Eventually we went to Sarasota for the third time. This time, however, we went to the Mote Aquarium and Marine Research Laboratory. On the way, we got a little lost and passed the aquarium going both ways. One way we wound up turning around in St. Armand's Circle, and the other way we went through down town Sarasota. Eventually we realized where we needed to go and we found the aquarium.
The aquarium wasn't very large but still quite big. They had all kinds of fish as well as jellyfish, octopi, squid, sharks, and stingrays. We spent a long time going through and looking at all the different creatures. Then we had lunch at a diner located near the sharks. The burgers were awesome! And they had pepsi! I like pepsi and Ash likes coke; our relationship is complicated (not really ;P)
After eating at the diner, we went through he gift shop where it seemed that Ash broke their computers. Seriously, when she went to check out, the system went down. Eventually we got everything settled and then we walked to the manatee exhibit. They also had sea turtles and dolphins there. The manatee's were camera shy and wouldn't come close, but the turtles were more than happy to pose.
THe aquarium was about to cose, so we decided to go back to the house. This time we were fully expecting to find stuff destroyed. We were right. The dog ate a plant. It was a fake tree, but the dog ate the basket and the foam base. It was everywhere.
That night, the dogs wanted me to sleep in the bed with them. They are bigger than me and I don't want them to eat me, so I complied. I was afraid, but eventually fell asleep under the two 200 lb dogs.