Ok, so I swore when we arrived in China last year we would visit as many places as possible. There's so much to see here, we never have to go to the same place twice...except maybe once.
Back in April, the twins and their Year Two classmates went to the newly opened (of course, it's new) Suzhou Ocean Aquarium. It was so unbelievably crowded we didn't see everything and what we did see we certainly weren't able to linger. Wendy and her family invited us to meet them at the aquarium this past Saturday. Even though the twins and I had been, I figured it didn't really violate my self-imposed rule since Larry and Katie hadn't gone.
We arrived just before the last of the afternoon shows. The first one we went to was the Mermaid Show, which consisted of a girl in a mermaid costume diving down into the observation tanks and waving to the audience. I suppose some kids might fall for it, but of course, mine wanted to know why she was wearing goggles and nose plugs. The Dolphin Show was next. I use the term 'dolphin show' quite loosely as it mostly consisted of juggling clowns making balloon animals. Two seals performed first and five dolphins performed for a total of maybe ten minutes. I will say, the animals were better this time. The last show was a 3D movie. We had the entire theatre to ourselves. Unfortunately, both short movies were in Chinese.
When we came out of the little theatre we were able to really explore the aquarium since there were probably three other patrons in the entire place. The girls examined all the creatures and left their fingerprints on all the tanks. Quite a different place than it was back in April.
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