So far we have a grand total of.... 3 (US, Canada, Japan).
We dressed Deacon in a sailor outfit for the outing. Seemed appropriate. :)
He is excited to see the whale shark and Manta Rays!
We had a long taxi journey to the aquarium...it was about an hour and half drive from our hotel!! A little piece of information the travel agent failed to tell us when we bought the package with an aquarium visit. Chalk it up to language barrier. But, we made the best of it and we were able to "rent" a taxi for 6 hours for a reasonable price. Deacon fell asleep on the journey holding my water bottle!
A picture of a VERY large viewing area. One of the biggest or the biggest in the world. I posted several pics so you can see the massive size of the glass, the size of the manta rays, and the size of the whale shark. There are people on the bottom of the pictures so you can get an idea of scale.
The viewing glass...
The Manta Ray...check out that wing span! Their wing span can get up to 6 feet in length.
Whale Shark...easily the largest sea creature I have ever seen in person.
There was a model to demonstrate the thickness of the glass. It's a little hard to tell but from Deacon's left shoulder to the tip of the brochure is how thick the glass is. It has to be to with stand the pressure. I think it measured somewhere around 2 feet??
We caught a dolphin show (always one of my faves) and Jason got us a coconut drink. That is a real coconut we are drinking from. Very "Cast Away"-ish only A LOT easier to get to. We had the help of a guy with a machete.
Also, we stumbled up this...Sea turtles in buckets. Not a main attraction and I don't think it's meant to be seen by guests but entertaining none-the-less.
A sea turtle not in a bucket....maybe they rotate? Deacon enjoyed watching them.
It was a day of family fun!
4 comments:
Wow! That looks like a lot of fun! Ya'll are just so cool! Carleigh was checking the pictures out with me and said out loud, "They are just a FUN couple!"
What a neat excursion. Love the pics of the large glass window into the "sea". The Coconut drink also looked fantastic. Thanks for posting. Loving seeing your world.
Love the updates, Abby. Your little boy is such a precious combination of Jason's looks and your personality (so it seems through the lense). :)
Love to you all.
Also, the aquarium photos were so incredible. It always overwhelms me (and creeps me out a little) to think of all the enormous sea creatures. That shark would be pretty awesome to see up close like that, but I'd be thankful for the two feet of glass.
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