Life in the Fish Bowl, part 1

So my Birthday was Tuesday and to celebrate, Thad and Becky and the kids took me out to Newport. We stopped at Glenn Small's church for the morning service, then headed to the Oregon Coast Aquarium. Raqelle wanted to show me the sea lions and the sharks, Titus added "in the water." We saw jelly fish (much better in smaller viewing, blurry if you enlarge), and giant crabs. You should see these crabs, they are HUGE. They are called Japanese Spider Crabs, and according to the sign can grow to have a 13ft leg span. The ones we saw had about a 4-5ft legs span, and they were still huge. (Note for size comparison 3yr old Raquelle in the bottom left hand corner of photo of rear facing crab.) We also saw a sea otter investigating us through the window.