The National Aquarium

My parents took me to a very bizarre place tonight (they do that a lot). I was asleep during the whole trip there, so when I woke up I was very confused about where I was, since it didn't look like anything I'd seen before. All around me children and grownups were crowding up against brightly lit windows. I thought at first that maybe these were like the glowing boxes that Mommy and Daddy won't let me watch, but I remembered seeing those inside people's houses, and no one ever got so close to them. I was intrigued nonetheless. Mommy carried me right up to one of the windows. Inside were all sorts of bright and shiny things that darted quickly back and forth. I tried my best to follow them, but there were so many that I'd get distracted and look back and forth from one to another. Some of them were shiny, some looked kind of sqiushy-- but they seemed to move so easily across the window... There were bubbles like I had seen in my bath, and some of the shiny things reminded me a little of my tub toys, but the window didn't feel wet at all when I reached out to try to touch it. I turned around and looked inquiringly at Mommy, Daddy, and some people standing nearby, hoping for some explanation. They LAUGHED at me (I hate when that happens when I am trying to be serious) and said "See the fishies, Baby Isabel?" So I guess that's what they were: fishes. But there were so many kinds of them!