Luan woke up with a feeling of wonderful happiness. He did not know why at first, and then realised that today they are going to see the sea.
His mother told him that he could have breakfast and then quickly go and say goodbye to his animal friends in the forest, as he will not be seeing them for a while. He was so excited and brushed his teeth and rushed to eat his breakfast, his mother told him not to be very long as they have another surprise for him and they cannot be late.
Oh what is the surprise please tell me.
His mother smiled and said we are flying down to Cape Town so that we can have a little more time there. There are so many things we want to show you and driving will take too long.
He grabbed her round the neck and gave her a big kiss, as he had never been on an aeroplane and could not believe that he was going to fly in one.
When he got home they rushed to get to the airport and booked everything in so that they only had a few things with them that went into the aeroplane.
His father said that they will land in Cape town but the airport is about 20 km from the city and they were renting a car for their holiday so that they could get around easily. Luan was jumping up and down he was so excited.
When he saw the aeroplane he said I never realised they are as big as I only see them flying and then they do not look so big. They flew and when they crossed the sea his mother told him to look down and look how big the sea is. He could not believe his eyes.
It was water where ever you looked to him it seemed it will just never stopped. He enjoyed the flight a lot and could not wait to see where they were staying.
After leaving the house they were renting his father told him we are taking you to the Aquarium today. I read that they have just found new fish, called sunfish that they will be putting in the aquarium and I did think this is something you would like to see.
Oh yes thank you so much. But what is an aquarium he asked?.
My darling Luan it is like a zoo where they keep animal for people to see. Only this is in the water and can see all the fish swimming around. There are so many you will not believe it.
They left the house and headed for the aquarium. When they got there Luan said if it is in water will we not get wet and his mother explained to him that there will be glass between them and the fish so no, you will not get wet my dear.
He could not wait as he loved animals so much and knew that he was going to see something he had never seen before.
His father told him that they had found some sunfish that had come to the aquarium for the first time. His father told him that when they got them they kept them separate from the others so that they could first learn how it feels to live in the aquarium.
They were now out and swimming around, there is a video of how they put them in cages first to show how they had to learn and they had to clean them as they had lots of parasites and things on them that they removed from them.
They stopped in front of the two oceans aquarium and they paid to go inside it was so beautiful he could not believe his eyes.
Then the people working there took them to see the video of how they had put the fish into the aquarium. He was looking around, with his mouth hanging open but they did not have time to look yet as they had to go and see these fantastic sunfish first. The first video just showed how small people looked compared to this fish.
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The video showed how they had put them in and he was so surprised, as they the people were swimming with clothes that made it possible for them to breathe under water.
At first they were kept in cages to clean them and make them use to the aquarium.
When all the fish were clean and happy they were aloud to go to the aquarium out of the cages.
Luan could not believe his eyes as they were walking between the fish.
Here they are feeding them and it went well.
Everything was new to him and it was just too wonderful. He had seen the sea from the air could not believe the water that he saw. Now he was in this aquarium with all the fish and going to see some fish that had never been in the aquarium before.
Hope you enjoyed my story and will continue tomorrow going through the rest of his holiday and aquarium.
