Finding Reilly

What a difference the sunshine makes! Tonight when Reilly came home from school he typed Dory fish into my phone and  instead of looking at photographs of them I decided to take him along to the Blue Reef Aquarium at Tynemouth.

We’ve  drove along with the windows down and the sun beaming in, just perfect.  Reilly has never been to the aquarium before but I showed him photos of the outside and some of the exhibits and he was really excited.  First thing he did was go into the shop and purchase one of those fishing rods with the magnetic fish you throw in the bath, straight to the massive open tank in the foyer and started to rip it open, they were going in!!  Just stopped him in time.  Lady on reception was lovely though I must say.  There was no-one else there as we got there late in the afternoon so place to ourselves.  Happy days.

I expected him to wonder at the fishes and be intrigued.  He gave no shits about them whatsoever.  He did however enjoy watching the seals, I mean who wouldn’t.  I took some photographs while we were there and they look like he is in some kind of magic undersea utopia.  Beautiful greens and light.  I must go again a little better prepared with lenses etc and plan some photos properly.

The otters enclosure smelled worse than I imagine an otters pocket and we hastily ran through that bit.  Reilly and smells, particularly really strong ones is a no go.

All in all it was a lovely afternoon he showed me a picture of a sausage and an icecream on my phone so we left in search of a nearby chippy.  We kept driving, the sun brought hundreds to our beaut coast this afternoon and it was just amazing to see.  Ive not seen people headed to the beach complete with towels and windbreakers for decades.  I loved it.

Back at our local chippy we sat outside on the bench and Reilly listened to the ravey version of the Moonpig advert a million times.

Love the sun, love my sons, its a good day xx