9/27/14: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Gift Shop Haul (Birthday Trip Part Eight)

Usually, gift shops have tacky, overpriced items. There were women's shirts but the designs are the usual cheap-looking souvenir shirts. However, the men's section has better stuff. I got this shirt in small. It's still a little big but I was thinking that I could just modify it like I did to the men's Pulp Fiction shirt that I own.  There were more designs but this is the one that Q and I both like.

Now that I look at it, I'm not very sure if I still want to cut it up so that I could wear it. I'm thinking of just giving it to Q. I really love the freedom of both being able to wear men's small shirts bring us.

This is another thing I got from the aquarium. It's not unique to the Monterey Bay Aquarium but I've always liked papercraft, cards and postcards. Most of the time, I buy myself postcards from places I visit and if I have the chance, I send it to myself from there. So I bought this card, wrote myself a cheerful message and sent it before we headed to the freeway that will take us to L.A. I would have preferred to send it in the post office of Monterey Bay but it was the weekend when we went and they were closed already by the time we got out of the aquarium.

9/27/14: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Tentacles Exhibit (Birthday Trip Part Seven)

What's another marine creature I'm in-love with? Octopuses. Of course, the aquarium did not disappoint. Here's the Tentacles Exhibit. Before the octopuses though, here are more impressive marine creatures.

Bigfin Reef Squid

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Can you believe that the dark-brown ink of this Common Cuttlefish was the same sepia ink onced used for writing and drawing?

Also, my friend said it looks like Benedict Cumberbatch. #accurate

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Again, with another help from the Aquarium's twitter, I have confirmed what octopuses are in these next two photos. They even provided the links to the animal guide! How extremely helpful!

This Day Octopus looks different from the ones they have on their Animal Guide so I'm guessing this might be an albino one. They boast that these octopuses are really active and might be the most entertaining to see but this octopus was just chilling in that rock for the couple of minutes we stared at it. I wish I could've seen it in action but it's all good. Still looked amazing!

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This cutie in a jar is a Veined Octopus. And this octopus was from the Philippines. Just like me!

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Last but definitely not the least is the Giant Pacific Octopus. This octopus wasn't part of the Tentacles exhibit but I decided to put it under this post anyways. It was really really stunning. I wanted to keep watching and recording but I didn't want to hog the space. There were a lot of visitors wanting to see it so we decided to move along after adoring it for a couple of minutes.

There were still a lot of interesting things in the Aquarium but these are what personally appealed to me. I also want to encourage you all to check it out for yourself! There were so much to see and these photos and videos will never ever be able to give justice to the experience I had there. We spent the whole afternoon there which wasn't very hard to do considering how magnificent everything there is. I thought that it would be one of those places that I wouldn't care for in the next couple of years but I couldn't wait to go back. I want to go back.