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The Aquarium

 

July 17, 2015

By Sarah Ann Huber

 

Today, we went to an aquarium – Sun Asia, one of the most popular tourist spots here in Dalian. There were four buildings. In the first building, there were Artic animals. We went to a really cool Walrus show. The bad thing was, it was PACKED! People were crowded everywhere. We could barely walk up the stairs. Luckily, we found a couple of seats and watched the show. I thought it was really cute when the walruses started dancing at the end. After the walrus show, we went to the whale show. It was even more packed than the walrus show. Christian cried almost the whole time. We had to stand, packed tightly together. It was really hot (there was no air conditioning – just some cooling units every once in a while) and really loud.

 

Taylor is standing in front of one of the cooling units enjoying the cool air

 

After getting a little ice cream and looking at some other cool animals, we went through this amazing underwater tunnel. The underground tunnel is where you stand on this super slow treadmill sort of thing that moves through an arch made of glass so it appears like you are in the aquarium with all the sea creatures. The tunnel is the longest one in Asia, and I am pretty sure it is the longest underwater tunnel in the world.  After that, we went to the dolphin show. Like all the other animal shows, it was packed. Luckily a guy told us that we could sit on the stairs in the front, so we got pretty good seats. The show was super neat. We were watching the dolphin show when an old lady came and sat right in front Christian, so he couldn’t see a thing. There was room by my mom for Christian to sit, but still it made me so angry!

 

See how packed it is?

 

After watching the dolphin show and seeing some fish, we went to find lunch. We ate these things that are sort of like hot dogs on a stick. They are not my favorite thing, but not the worst thing I have eaten. We also ate these things that were kind of like potatoes or French fries on a stick. They were good.

 

Here’s the choices at lunch – fish on a stick, anyone?

 

 

Or there’s always fried squid….

 

Then we went to the last building. We went on this thing that was like a tilted boat, walked by some talking pictures, went through this tunnel that made it look like you were spinning upside down. It was pretty cool. After that, we took a cart to get to the 4D dinosaur movie part.

 

When we got home, we packed because tomorrow we leave for Shanghai. It’s almost my last day in Dalian and I’m kind of sad about that. Starting tomorrow we’ll be traveling all around China for two weeks while my dad gives talks at different universities. Then we’ll be back for two days before leaving for Beijing.