Van & her cousin loved the big bed in my room and Van KNEW that Holly didn't stay on one side of it last night, but kept ooching over nearer and nearer to me, even though its a king sized bed!
At the aquarium we saw sharks and all kinds of fish that Holly loved. I think this is a Bala Shark.
Holly really liked the parts where they had windows that you could look into the sides of the fish tanks and the fish could swim right by you.
Van and Holly had lots of discussions about the fishies. Next to Van is her cousin and behind her & Holly is Van's dad's driver, who took us around today while he (Van's dad) was working.
This reminded both Van and I of when we went to Seattle and she got a fish to do the same thing there. Its funny that a fish will come up and do this at the window when they see people all day long!
We saw some of the HUGEST turtles I have ever seen in my life! You know how in the Pirates of the Caribbean he says he got off that island by standing on the backs to turtles as they swam though the water? It might have been these kind of turtles. 
Holly was mesmerized by the turtles and threw a tiny fit when we went to look at something else. Do you see the expression on the other little girls face in the picture? Everyone looks at Holly that way here. I don't know if its because she is Asian, but speaks English, or what. But its really weird to me that she get so many stares. It bothers me a bit, actually. We never get that many stares in America, so its strange.
Here is a skeleton of an actual whale. It was so cool.
This is a baluga whale that had gotten trapped in a fisherman's net and was brought to the aquarium. Its not alive, but preserved in formaldahyde.
They have an entire room with jars of different kinds of fish preserved and labeled. I don't know if they are all from this area or all over the world. I didn't look very closely because a) I think its kinda gross to look at dead fish in jars and b) I didn't want Holly touching/breaking the jars.
After the aquarium, we went to a temple in town. Its built up on a hill and you have to climb a zillion stairs to get up there, but it was worth it. We were tired by the time we got to the top, so we stopped to eat some kem (ice cream)!
The view from the top was fabulous. This is looking out toward the ocean from there.
And this is the harbor with all the fishing boats. This is one of the fishing centers of the southern part of Vietnam. Van's uncle is a fisherman here.
Here is a little temple that I went into while we were up there. I didn't know if it was ok to take pictures inside or not and people were praying in there, so I didn't.
After the temple, we went to a brewhouse on the beach to eat lunch. Holly fell asleep in the car on the way (she has been natorious for doing this and sleeping though meals here) and slept through lunch. They were very nice and shoved 2 chairs together for her to sleep on while we were eating. She slept for about 4 hours total!We came back to the hotel for a rest this afternoon and are now just waiting for Van to come back. I don't know what we will do next, but Holly is dying to go swimming, so we may either go to the pool or the beach for a swim.
This is a picture of a building that was built to look like a lotus flower here in town. Nha Trang is about 700,000 in population and Miss Universe was held here a few years ago.
Holly is still running a temperature, but I am giving her tylonol every 4 hours and she had a great time at the aquarium today. She is a trooper and is doing well. She is not nearly as hot as she was yesterday and she drank a lot of water last night and this morning. Today she has eaten an entire bag of potato chips and two baggies of pretzels, so I think she must need to replenish the salt in her body or something. We are both sweating profusely here, although Nha Trang is significantly cooler & less humid than Hanoi was. It was only 86 degrees when our plane landed yesterday!
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