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Kaitsu's underwater adventure

Kaj's birthday is approaching (its in fact tomorrow! Waah!!!), but because his birthday is such a huge thing, it lasts 15 days (like Chinese New Year). He he.. It started last weekend when Kaj got his suprise dive in the Leijonakaupunki underwater world shark tank (the picture is from the outside of the tank and the fish is not a shark). There's this kind of tunnel where you can walk and watch the fish from below, but you can also get inside of this tank. We did and it was amazing - the fish in the nature is quite evasive, they don't care about the divers and tend just to swim away, annoyed. But these sharks and especially the eagle rays were so cuddly! As I got into the tank I got this unexpected bump on my head, guess what - there was an eagle ray swimming above and being a little bit "pushy".. So you could really touch the rays, the sharks, the moray eels (a no no in the nature).. You could give a big hug to a sleeping leopard shark, just drag it along as a huge teddy bear... And all this, because they knew well that we had some delicious bites. The eagle rays were going wild swarming around and brushing against our hands, heads and what not. The big wrasses almost chewed off my fingers, so eager they were.. It was really great.. However artificial and non-realistic the whole setting was, it was great to feel the affection of these beautiful creatures (although just because we had food..)

Here's kaj signing off all the responsibility and you can see that he's a bit worried - he'll get thrown into the shark pool soon.. But I don't have pictures of the great smiles that we both had on our faces once we emerged from the water...

Then we continued to the Little India for a good curry and we encountered the famous Sunday "foreign workers" crowds. All these people (all men) are there just to meet their friends and relatives. They stand on the grass field and "talk talk, do nothing, just stand and chat with each other" as one of our Chinese taxi drivers described.. Which has "xenophobia" written all over... People get to Little India by charter busses from their companies (from faraway suburbs). We were delighted to see Roland's (Monika's husband's) company's CibaVision bus full of workers in there too.. :)

We're going to Bali tomorrow so there will be no entries at least till next Tuesday.. Come back a bit later...