Who’s ready to explore the Maui Aquarium with me? Oh come on, FISH ARE EXCITING! Let’s do this thing.

Everything in the aquarium was arranged so you move from shallow water creatures to deep water (with the sharks at the end, of course), but my pictures are all out of sequence.

These extreme close-ups using the flash are courtesy of the Boy.

See the little sea horse? They were camera shy.

Natural neon colors.

Angelfish.

Look at those adorable googly eyes!

Too bad about that flash. I suppose I could photoshop it out, but why?

These striped fish were in love with me. No matter where I positioned myself, they clustered around me, specifically–ignoring the other people. Someone even pointed it out.

A flat fish! Isn’t that cool?

I was excited to see the turtle lagoon…

…but it was kind of sad. As you can see, there’s one turtle desperately trying to escape…

…and then just one more turtle in the “lagoon”.

The “turtle crossing” sign was pretty cute though.

View from outside the aquarium.

AWWW even the bushes were shaped like sea creatures.

What’s up, crab?

Your pals.

Maw.

This was definitely a learning center, with lots and lots of information, but I ignored all that and just focused on the fish.

I loved the jellyfish tank. It consisted of a large glass cylinder in a darkened room, with a black light to highlight the jellyfish, and it was mesmerizing.

Baby jellyfish.

The jellyfish tank, and someone’s camera flash.

More of those glass jellyfish.

Assuming the position.

Oooh, sharks and manta rays time!

Here’s a little video the Boy shot of the sharks and manta rays. He actually did about 8 of these videos…but here’s one.

The sharks were hard to capture in photos. We probably have 30 pictures of blurry sharks.

I was a lot more interested in the manta rays, anyway.

The Boy snaps away.

The tunnel at the end brings the manta rays and sharks really close.

I love their faces!

Here’s a video of me cooing over the manta ray faces. My obsession with faces maybe makes me a better portrait artist? Or at least well-suited for the job. I also have excellent facial recognition skills, something that not everyone has (like my husband).

The Boy in the tunnel.

Here’s a 9 second surreal video of me standing still in the tunnel (assuming the Boy was taking a photo of me, not a video), and even weirder, his mother taking a photo of him doing the video.

I gotta say, the gift shop was impressive. It’s where I finally found my mother body butter, after all the searching.

They had a lot of glass art.

Outside, more of Ken Loyd’s art. God, to be a successful painter in Maui–what a nice dream.

CUTE.

That was fun. Join me later for the final installment–that’s right, FINAL. Then it’ll be back to business as usual–um, dogs, self-portraits, and whining. Hooray!