Coex Aquarium - Part 2 - Other critters

Now for the rest of the critters at the aquarium.

 

I am just fascinated with seahorses - I don't know why, and I don't know what purpose God had in mind when he created them, but I like 'em.  And they had thousands of them!  No, I'm not exadurating.

 

Love this one with the daddy and all the babies.

There are a ton of the "flecks" in the water that are tiny seahorses.

 

I just have two babies though...

and I think they're much cuter.

 

This, though it is difficult to see (look closely) is a two headed turtle.

 

I never realized that beavers were so unattractive

 

And here's a bunch of frogs... again - I really like the ones that are brightly colored - you know, the poisonous ones.

 

Man these are ugly!

My undersea adventure goers

 

They even had manatees

They said these were from China (I think - again didn't pay much attention to the sign - they're manatees, therefore they must be from Florida).  It was feeding time so the kids really got a kick out of watching them eat their lettuce - and watching the turtles try to steal some too.  It was interesting to see the way they used their top lip like fingers to push the lettuce into their mouths.

 

Who doesn't like seals? This display was neat because they had a glass bottomed float so even if they were resting out of the water, you could look up and see them.

 

I won't bore you with more pictures of jellyfish that you've already seen in previous posts (what? they're cool).  But this guy is something I've never seen before.  I thought all jellyfish were transparent or at least light colored - but this guy looks like a black mushroom in the water - and there were blue ones too!

 

By the time we got to this guys tank I was really hungry and thought he would be delicious.

 

This penguin was apparently building a nest.  She would go back and forth between this bucket of sticks and a hutch.  She would look over the sticks and choose just the right one.  And it couldn't be one that had been on the ground - it had to be out of this container.

 

This has nothing to do with the aquarium except that it was in the mall.  I just was caught off guard by the name and had a good laugh.

Coex Aquarium - Part 1 - Fish

Last weekend we headed back up to Seoul to check out the aquarium they have up there in this huge underground mall.  It was an ugly, rainy day, so it was the perfect time for an indoor activity. 

Be warned... there are a lot of pictures in this post!  We love fish, and they had some pretty crazy looking ones here.

The obligatory entrance photo.

(Grace forgot her shoes - thankfully Tristan had 2 pair in the car ?? and she didn't have to wear her rain boots around all day.)

 

I don't know what kind of fish these are, but they are certainly unique.

 

This is some sort of a special Mandarin fish.  They are only found in certain areas of the world, and come in a couple different colors, but this one is the rarest.

(You'd think I'd take pictures of the signs so I'd be able to tell more about them!)

 

They had an aquarium display going on (I don't know if it's there all the time or not) that showed the coolest ideas of different things to make aquariums out of.

 

They had two made out of vending machines - We didn't try them to see if they were still functional.

 

This one was neat.  They had a fountain with several vertical tubes that the fish could swim up into.

 

Yep, that's exactly what you think you're seeing.

Grace saw this and said, "Really?!?"

 

TV

 

We all thought it would be great to have a headboard like this one.

 

Fish playing soccer

 

This fish reminded me of "Rainbow Fish"

It's not as brightly colored as the book portrays, but he's certainly got his share of glittery scales!

 

Now that's a big catfish!

 

Fish kisses

 

I have no idea what these fish are (surprise!) but boy were they cool!

 

They had a really nice place and bigger than I anticipated it was going to be.  It was a bit on the pricy side, especially when we discovered we had to pay about $20 to park!  Oh well, it was well worth it.  Next up - more pics from the aquarium - just not fish.

And She's Off!

Our bikes finally arrived with our household goods, and the kids made me haul them downstairs so they could ride them today.  The neighbor boy who lives upstairs was down ringing the bell on his bike, yelling for Grace to come out, so out the kids went.  They were all riding around having a grand ol' time when I heard tools and metal hitting the ground.  I didn't think much of it, I was working on more boxes and David was down with the kids - nothing to worry about, right?

Then I was in Tristan's room and heard David say, "You did it, great job!"  So, I looked out of the window, only to find that he had removed Grace's training wheels!  Whoa!  She just told me that she wasn't ready to do that (quite frankly, I was okay with the training wheels because I don't want to be on a first name basis with any ER docs this time as I did when I lived here as a child...).

Well, David (her friend) had his dad take his training wheels off so I guess she began to consider the idea, and with her daddy down with her, I'm sure there was a little persuasion...

 

Getting a little help up the hill

I think she thought she was going to loose it here...

 

... but she managed to right herself and make it down the hill.

There's an "I did it all by myself" proud smile!

 

Ready to ride with Daddy.

She had a blast out there after she found out that with a little bit of effort and a little bit of courage, anything is possible!