Underwater World

What an amazing afternoon we had at Underwater World!! I was thinking, would it be like Virginia Aquarium?? In some ways yes but other ways no. Almost the whole thing was exactly what the name says, a huge tunnel under the water. It was so neat! I have never walked through what I thought under water would be like. It was so neat to see all of the sea creatures at every possible angle they could be seen. My absolute favorite are the sea turtles. The are HUGE! There were only two, but wow! I can't even believe I could upload all of these pictures on here. This isn't all of the pictures, these were just some of my favorites, I figured not everyone wanted to see every little thing I took a picture of just because I liked it. Lee was amazed!! He had been to aquariums before but everything he saw was "Daddy, look a huge fish, a shark, a lot of sharks!" It was so neat to see how he reacted to what he was seeing. Easton enjoyed himself too, not like he will remember this trip but hopefully by the time we leave here he will be able to remember some of the beautiful things about Guam. He will be 3 when we leave here, crazy to think that. The weather has been pretty good today. I was actually riding in the passenger seat of the van and looking at the ocean very carefully. I hadn't seen the waves rolling so big until today, the ocean has usually up until now been very calm. The water is crystal clear blue in many places, you can see the bottom. I told Harley that it looks like a huge quilt of beautiful blues, and that is exactly what it looks like out here. There are so many shades of blue (dark blue, light blue, teal, saphire) in the ocean that makes it so beautiful. I see many people parasailing every day. Lee always says "mom, look at all of the parachutes". After the tunnel part of the aquarium we got to go to a part where you could pet the fish, yes pet the fish!! In Virginia I remember a part where we could touch the stingrays. Today, you could touch all kinds of fish if they would let you. Some were begging to be touched by showing off and flapping their fins around and doing flips and twirls and others would swim as fast as they could away from anyone's fingers. The only thing I touched was a starfish, did you know that there are blue starfish? There are, and they are so pretty. I had never touched one before and they are so hard, it is hard to believe that this beautiful thing I was touching was even alive. I find the stingrays to be very interesting but scary. They scare me because I know they are deadly, but at the same time they are so neat. When standing underneath them, they look like they have this huge face and they look like they are smiling. They also move so gracefully through the water with these huge long tails. Some are so huge!! There were a lot of sharks there also, we had just missed them being fed by minutes. Someone actually gets in there and feeds them by hand. Can you believe that? I would be scared out of my mind to even think of doing that. In one picture I have posted you will see that a lot of the fish eat lettuce, I never thought I would see that. There was one fish that stood out among the rest, he was absolutely HUGE!! All I could wonder was how old this fish was. He looked so old and he looked so sad, but he just kept moving along slowly doing his thing. We ate at a wonderful restaraunt for lunch, I can't remember the name, but I had crab legs and they tasted GREAT!! They were the biggest I had ever eaten. I told Harley and Lee that this crab was probably once part of the aquarium and now I am about to eat it's legs, LOL!! Anyways....that was our day so far and it was so nice to get out and do something fun as a family. If it doesn't rain tomorrow we are going back to stay the night at the hotel we stayed at when we first got here. We liked it that much. Hope you all enjoy the pictures!

Some fish were so bright it was unbelievable, and some were neon and were actually glowing.

The Nemo fish, as Lee called it.

Oh my, the sea horses, amazing!! I hadn't seen them so close before and I didn't know that they had quite a few fins on their back and they move so quickly like a humming birds wings.

Yuck!! An eel.

A stingray. Can you see the face and smile?

Look at this happy face!

One of the blue starfish!

Watch out, shark!

Here is the fish that stood out so much, doesn't he look old and sad?

The huge sea turtles.

Fish eating lettuce.

Getting ready to go into the tunnel under water.

Look at these cool guys!

My big boy!

This is the view from outside the building and it is also on the strip.

Another view of the strip I could get from the top of the parking garage. I wish we could have parked somewhere else and I could have gotten some really good pictures. Maybe next time.