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ReeferMac

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My daughter has a softball tournament in 'Nooga on Sunday.

My  Parents are in town visiting, and want to watch their grand-daughter play, but won't be able to wait through an entire tournament (i.e. 3-4 games).

What adult-friendly activities can we look into to kill a couple hours, not cost an arm and a leg (aka Aquarium's out), and not be overly strenuous (we can do a little walking, but not a lot)

- K

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The Wrecker Museum is fun. If you can swing it though, I can't suggest the aquarium enough. 

 

I have been to four of the top rated aquariums in the US, Monterrey Bay (IMO the best,) National, Ripley's and Chattanooga. If you can make it, do it.

 

I am a fan of zoos and aquariums though. Your mileage may vary.

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Thanks for the great ideas!

I like aquariums also (kept a saltwater reef aquarium myself for 20 yrs - thus the screen name), but my parents don't share the interest, and at their age, lots of walking is challenging. My oldest went w/ his school, and we plan on doing that w the kids one of these days.

 

Rock city sound like it might work (that's the mtn. view where you can see 7 states, right?), as of course, I've seen the advertisements (have YOU seen rock city?)

Thanks.

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9 hours ago, TripleGGG said:

I had 1200 gallons of saltwater tanks and reef tanks at one time. Now I don't have a single tank. Had to move too much last few years. 

That would have been nice! One tank? My last one was a 230-gal custom Starfire tank w/ euro-bracing, gorgeous glass... 1400 watts of halides, 45-gal sump and a 65-gal refugium. Sucker started leaking on me one day shortly before we moved a while back, and for the next 7-years I just ran the old refugium and sump as a 'hobby' tank in the basement (e.g. it was way too ugly to display anything, but I still enjoyed messing around). I've still got that old tank, and a bucket of my old live rock, ballasts, etc... One of these days I might set it up again, but who knows. Kids take all my time and money now, not to mention the hit my ammo-budget would have to take!

 

- K

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18 minutes ago, ReeferMac said:

That would have been nice! One tank? My last one was a 230-gal custom Starfire tank w/ euro-bracing, gorgeous glass... 1400 watts of halides, 45-gal sump and a 65-gal refugium. Sucker started leaking on me one day shortly before we moved a while back, and for the next 7-years I just ran the old refugium and sump as a 'hobby' tank in the basement (e.g. it was way too ugly to display anything, but I still enjoyed messing around). I've still got that old tank, and a bucket of my old live rock, ballasts, etc... One of these days I might set it up again, but who knows. Kids take all my time and money now, not to mention the hit my ammo-budget would have to take!

 

- K

Several tanks. I had a 250 gallon built into a wall. True reef setup with 7 halides on timers to simulate sun pattern, wave action, etc etc etc. No telling how much I had in that tank. Better than any TV I ever had. Could sit and watch for hours. Would love to get back into it.  

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Amen to that! Didn't have cable for years because....  That would have been neat to see the halides on timers like that? I played around w/ the moonlight LED's a little, and had Sea Swirls on the Iwaki return pump. Grew hard corals like mad, had all kinds of things spawning. Remarkable 'hobby'. I miss it too!

 

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