Crazy buildings and the aquarium:

Wednesday June 14:

So today we headed across the street from the hotel to La Ciudad de Artes y Ciencias which are a funky bunch of modern buildings. They look like giant space ships that landed there. Rj said they look like the cylon resurrection ship from Battlestar Galactica. um yah.....Anyways, we strolled on by those buildings and headed towards the aquarium, L’oceanongrafic . It is supposedly the largest aquarium in Europe and the third largest in the world……but it didn’t seem that large to me! Ha! So who knows.

Anways, it was neat to see. There were large tubes that you could walk through and it looked as though we were right in the water with the fishes swimming all around. Carter loved it! He was mesmerized by all the colorful fish swimming by. He even squealed a couple of times!!! (yes being the photogs that we are we caught it all on film!) In one tube there were sharks lurking in the water and a gianormous one scared the you know what out of me! I was looking the other way and I turned around to only see a huge set of teeth in my face! YIKES!!!!!!!! And yes Rj got that on film as well. Awesome.

In the artic area there was a tank of two beluga whales. I would have to say that was my favorite. One of the whales was super playful with us. He swam all bround and showed off for us and even stopped to pose for some photos….quite the ham he was!!!

After the aquarium we headed over to a shopping area and found a resturante for some much needed grub….tapas. We all shared plates full of delish food!!

Ok ciao for now!!