The Aquarium

On Monday, we went down to an aquarium in Pingtung. We drove up there for 4 hours, and stayed about 2, 3 hours, and came back, which took another 4 hours. I had a great time. The fish were so beautiful and they were all interesting to look at. There was 3D, too!

Yes, the trip was exhausting, but it was all worth it. I had a fun time. At first, they wouldn't let me in because they mistook me for a college student. But I got in, thankfully. Pictures below!

On the highway.

The parking lot.

The building ahead is where we're headed to.

Students lining up for tickets.

More buildings.

Dad lining up to get tickets.

Passing out the tickets.

Going to the ticket booth.

The small pool with models of whales.

Here it is.

The room where we saw...

Sea turtles!

One hiding in the corner, sleeping, I think.

My brother with the sea turtle.

My mom with the sea turtles.

Carrying on.

More models of whales.

Me with the models.

Me and my brother.

Inside the building.

Taking a break.

Stairs.

My mom and dad. Awesome photo.

Well, the computer went off, so that's why I'm like, "What the..?!"

My brother reading the map.

So now we head off to the aquarium.

Inside the tank.

A slug.

A beautiful yellow fish.

Dad teaching my brother how to use the camera properly.

Now we move on to another tank.

Amazing characters.

Moving on to check out some pretty pink fish.

Now we move on to the tunnel.

A group of fish.

A ray.

Inside a "submarine".

A long tunnel.

Walking through the tunnel.

Of video footage of the fish.

A shark swimming silently in the back.

You can see the tunnel from here.

My shirt, glowing in the dark.

Going through another long tunnel.

Putting a model of a ship in the background.

Posing a picture.

Oh well, this picture can't escape the couple in the back.

My mom and the fish.

"Alright, class, please take out your history books!"

"Right this way, class."

Inside the "ship".

Just took a picture.

It felt like the Titanic.

Extremely poisonous fish.

Checking crabs out.

"I am proud, high, and mighty!"

While the fish swim around innocently.

More fish around the area.

No idea what they are, but my brother thought they were upside down.

I know someone who's eaten sea urchins before...

A beautiful fish.

Starfishes. Don't they give you goosebumps?

Other sea urchins which we can touch gently.

Me touching one, and it felt like Romeo, our cat.

A video of a "wave".

"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.." "Sidney!!"

An octopus.

A lobster, what most of us eat. Not me, though.

Feeding the fish vegetables. Never thought they were vegetarian, right?

Well, what else can they do in that tank besides going around and around?

I spy a fish...

Find the belugas here...

The only good photo I caught of it.

Now this is where we saw the awesome whale shark.

So it comes out...

Now, I took many, many pictures, but this is one of my best.

A video of the whale shark swimming away.

Um... wrong picture?

Look carefully, fish sticking out the sand.

Sitting down really relaxed my feet.

"The food is to feed the whales," said my brother.

Now we move on to another building. Not this one, I mean.

Snap! Gotcha!

Our next location.

A model of a squid.

Inside.

Jellyfish.

Now comes the unrealism part.

They gave us 3D glasses, and everything was in 3D. It was so cool!

Got 3D glasses?

No more 3D. This is real.

Another room in the building.

Never seen such a fish looking so orange before.

Too bad that isn't real. Welcome to "Antarctica".

Penguins! Now that is real!

Has he lost his head?

Greeting the humans.

Only 14 seconds.

Well, I forgot to include seals! Which we saw before looking at these penguins and birds.

They swim really fast.

And our journey ends here.

This is where we had lunch.

Whew! I had a great time!! :D