Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Aquarium

On Friday, May 21, we took a trip to the "aquarium". I use the word "aquarium" loosely. First we ate a snack and used the "bathroom", then we stopped in at this playground. It had lots of good, rusty playground equipment - Egypt style:
Before we could shake our self-appointed guide by giving him some baksheesh, he led us into this musty man made cave: Inside were the fish tanks:

Most of the tanks were only half full of water and had catfish inside. Some didn't even have any fish:
The bad news is that the aquarium sucked. The good news is that Henry and Nathan could climb around near the tanks like they always want to:
Several displays were dry with stuffed creatures covered in dust: Nate and Henry's favorite part was running around inside the caves. We pretended they were dinosaur caves.
Here is a display showing a variety of pickled fish like in a science lab:
This one was so dusty I could barely get a photo. Super dusty and snarling seals:
Here is a view of the cave structure from the top. H&N were sad to leave because they loved the dinosaur caves. Side note: Twice (at the zoo and aquarium) we have been asked by locals to get photos with them. First Joe had his photo taken with a guy on his cell phone. Then the lady wanted her photo taken with me. I asked for a photo on my camera so you can see that it's true. I guess our white Alaskan skin is photo worthy.

2 comments:

  1. Nice caves. I suppose it's a good sign for their tourist attitudes if the twinskis are impressed by caves, and not nice aquarium displays. :)

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  2. Hmmm...that is one interesting aquarium! At least the caves piqued the boys interest.

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