Monterey Bay Aquarium Family Camp-In

Talli and I became members of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in January of this year. We joined for several reasons: 1) The aquarium is amazing. 2) You pay $100/yr and you can go as many times as you want in a year for free. 3) You are given the opportunity to attend member events. 4) The aquarium promotes and participates in ocean conservation. Friday night, Talli and I headed down to Monterey for their family camp-in event. It's a great event where you and your family get to spend the night in the aquarium, enjoy the exhibits, see some behind the scenes areas and spend the night sleeping by your favorite exhibit. In this picture, you can see Talli standing behind the jellyfish exhibit. In this picture, Talli caught me getting ready to lay down to sleep in front of the Jellyfish: Living Art exhibit. It was fairly quiet in our area of the exhibit after the nearby girls settled down to sleep. I slept pretty well. Talli, however, didn't sleep as well. Apparently, I hadn't filled her sleeping mat well enough. She was also disturbed by the sounds of the filter, so she left happy in the morning, but tired. I wondered if I might bump into any of the attendees of the camp-in behaving inappropriately. I believe I did. Right before the lights were turned out, I caught the jellyfish in the act. I could hardly believe that they would behave in such a manner with kids so nearby.