<h1>前天去巴尔的摩玩了一天，昨天一大早孙女又一如既往的钻进我们的被窝里。我问她是不是应该写一篇出去玩的游记，她说好的，一会儿她就爬起来，吃了奶奶做的French toast 以后，自己就在我的 Laptop 上写起来，非常熟练的使用word的各种功能, 很快就写完了，完全是自己设计的格式。让我看，我则建议她可以加几张图片，她马上就又修改，选择并添加图片等等，一切都是她自己独立完成。下面我把她的文章从 word 文件转成一个美篇，保持了她的原文，但也失去了一些她原来word版面上设计的美的东西。</h1><h3><br></h3><h1>孙女 Alice 9岁，上四年级。</h1><h3></h3> <h1>National Aquarium</h1><h1>By Alice Lu</h1><h3><br></h3><h1> The trip there</h1><h3> </h3><h1>On our trip to the aquarium yesterday, it took about one hour to arrive in Baltimore, the capital of Maryland and find a parking space. Once we paid for the parking space, we walked for ten minutes. There was no line in front of the aquarium but when we got in, there were a lot of people!</h1> <h1> The stations</h1><h3> </h3><h1>In the aquarium there were many places to go. They each included many tanks for the fish and many other animals. As we walked around the crowded area, we saw many kinds of fish, sharks, frogs, eels, and what I loved the most, the rain forest animals.</h1> <h1> The dolphin show</h1><h3> </h3><h1>Where we first went was at the dolphin stadium. We waited for about an hour or so and the show finally started. The dolphins all had names. There were five girls and two boys. I could only remember a few though. Some of the girls’ names were Jade and Marcy. One of the boys’ name was Foster. Once the show began, Foster did something called a front flip and he twirled in a circle in the air. It was stunning! As everyone clapped so did the other boy! It flapped its front flippers back and forth. The trainers fed lots of fish every time they did a trick.</h1> <h1> Some tropical ocean animals </h1><h3> </h3><h1>Once we got out of the dolphin stadium, we walked into another part of the aquarium. There was a big tank, carved into the floor with glass surrounding it. There was no roof on the tank. All the fish were very colorful! There were also sting rays, sharks, coral, and there used to be a one-armed turtle in the tank but I never found it this time.</h1> <h1> Jellies invasion</h1><h3><br></h3><h1>In the Jellies Invasion center, it was much more crowded and much darker. In the crowded room, were tanks with jellyfish of all kinds! Some were a bright, faint, purple color, some were brown as dark chocolate, some were a brownish orange whith long tentacles. They were all very colorful!</h1> <h3> Touching sea creatures</h3><h3> </h3><h1>After the Jellies, we entered another room with only two tanks with no roof and two sinks. First I rolled up my sleeve and touched the top of a jellyfish. I also taught my grandmother how to touch it and where to touch. I told her to gently touch it in the middle of its four stomachs that looked like a flower. Then, I went over to the other tank and looked at some sting rays and horseshoe crabs. When I finished looking, I went over to one of the sinks, washed my hands, and dryed them.</h1> <h1> Camoflauge </h1><h3> </h3><h1>In the ocean, some animals need protection like camoflauge. In this tank there were stonefish and eels. They were a bit hard to find until a stick went in with food atached to it and all of a sudden, the stonefish opened its mouth and snatched it out of the stick. The stonefish is one of the most venomous and fatal fish known on earth.</h1> <h1> Seahorses</h1><h3> </h3><h1>The seahorses were not so big but they were very beautiful! There were about five or six of them in the tank.</h1><h3> </h3><h1> Octopus </h1><h3> </h3><h1>The ocopus was orange and it was hiding in the back of the tank. It looked very uniqe because I couldn’t find it before.</h1> <h1> Sharks</h1><h3> </h3><h1>The sharks were all very big! My favorite shark is the saw shark. Its name comes from the big saw on the shark. It uses it to eat fish.</h1> <h1> Kelp oceans</h1><h3> </h3><h1>In front of the kelp ocean tank was a tour talking about animals that live there. I listened to them and the tour guide asked one of the people what a sharks’ skin would feel like if you touch it. One of the people said it would feel like sand paper. He also asked what the largest shark was and everyone said it was the whale shark. The smallest shark is the dwarf lanternshark. The tour guide also said it can actually glow like a lantern.</h1><h3> </h3><h1> The Amazon</h1><h3> </h3><h1>In the Amazon section had almost all the animals that lived there. There were sting rays, turtles, and all kinds and sizes of fish! Some were very small and some were very big!</h1> <h1> Rainforests </h1><h3> </h3><h1>In the rainforest section my family went up an escalator. This place was like a mini rainforest. Everything was real! It looked like a greenhouse as well. When we walked down the path, the first thing I spotted was a two-toed sloth! I also saw the tail of a golden lion tamarin! It was very small. As we walked along the path, I saw a very colorful bird on one of the trees. It had red on its head, blue on its back, yellow on its stomach and the tail was black. The black color also seperated the colors on the bird. It was very beautiful!</h1> <h1> Frogs</h1><h3><br></h3><h1>Once we came out of the rainforest, there were many frogs inside tanks! One of the tanks had frog eggs with a frog behind the eggs! The eggs looked slimy.</h1> <h1> Scuba divers!</h1><h3> </h3><h1>In the big tanks above the sharks, scuba divers jump into them! Some of them feed the fish and some of them clean the coral.</h1> <h1> Snakes</h1><h3> </h3><h1>One of the snakes I saw had a bright green color. I could tell it was venomous by its eyes and the triangular head.</h1> <h3> Puffins</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>The puffins and many other water birds were in one pond room with a glass wall. The puffins dived in the water and walked on the shore. </h3><h3> </h3><h1> Parrots</h1><h3> </h3><h1>The parrots in the aquarium had yellow heads and green bodies. We didn’t see them for long because they got sent into a room that we were not allowed in.</h1> <h3> Peacock Mantis Shrimp</h3><h3> </h3><h3>The Peacock Mantis Shrimp is very beautiful but it is not so big. Its name comes from the shrimp's color that looks like a peacock.</h3> <h3> The Yabby</h3><h3><br></h3><h3>The Yabby is blue and not so big either. It is a fresh water crayfish that lives in Austraila. These brightly colored animals hide under rocks and logs by day and actively search for food at night.</h3> <h1> Seafood restraunt</h1><h3><br></h3><h3><br></h3><h1> Last, we went to a seafood restraunt called Phillips. I ordered a steak, my grandmother ordered salmon, my dad ordered crabcake, and my grandfather and my mom ordered seafood platters. It was all very delicious! We paid the check which was $230, walked back to the parking lot and drove home.</h1> <h1>Aknowledgement: I am very thankful for the photos provided by my grandparents. They are very kind to let me use them.</h1> <h1><br></h1><h1>以上是孙女的游记，下面是我补充的几张照片:</h1> <h1>Philipps是巴尔的摩最著名的海鲜餐馆。</h1><h1><br></h1><h1>儿子点的crab cake (蓝蟹肉饼), 内行人说这是巴尔的摩最著名的一道菜。</h1> <h1>我和儿媳丽红都要了海鲜拼盘，也很好，除了crab cake，还有龙虾，鱼和虾串。</h1> <h1>华宁的最爱，三文鱼。</h1> <h1>孙女还是喜欢吃牛排。</h1> <h1>巴尔的摩留影。</h1>