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The Hey there, everybody. It's Ellen Weatherford.

And Christian Weatherford.

And we're here with just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review podcast where we take your favorite animals and rate them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

We are not zoological experts, but we try our best to get the most correct information we can about the animals we talk about here.

I just got back from our fourth trip to the Seattle Aquarium.

In as many weeks.

We got a membership.

It was like one of the first things we did here upon arriving in Seattle was getting a family

membership to the Seattle aquarium so we can go whenever

we want. And I've been abusing that privilege heavily at least once a week we've been going.

We've also been to Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. Well, I went, I took the kids there recently.

That was awesome. And you and I went to Woodland Park Zoo back a few months ago

when we visited here. So, oh, there's this tiny little aquarium that is like part of a nearby

college near where we live. And it's open for free on Saturdays. And we checked that one out too.

That was really cool. They had a hagfish

there and I'd never in my entire life seen a hagfish. I was really excited about that. They were

smaller than I was expecting. I don't know maybe those are just small ones but they were so little.

I was really excited to see hagfish. It was awesome. So we've been really getting our fill of, like, museums and zoos and aquariums, and we've been going nuts with it.

Oh, this weekend, we went down to the locks and to the Ballard locks.

And we got to see the coolest thing.

So the locks, you know, if you're not familiar with locks, they're

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