Aquarium La Rochelle (Day 6) (Ecosystems)

"RISE AND SHINE BOYS," Connor screamed to wake all of us up. It was day 6 in France and it has been an eventful trip so far. Everyone started to do their normal morning routine: shower, get dressed and get ready to go down to the lobby for breakfast. I had to, "wash my flow," so I took a, "fat," minute to get ready because, the French ladies are kind of cute. We all went down to the lobby and took the elevator. Little did they know I got stuck in one when I was young so I'm scared to go on them. I usually take the stairs, but I didn't feel like it this morning, because I didn't drink my G-fuel, Gene started to shake the elevator, and I freaked out, they all laughed at me, but when we get stuck, its gonna be a long day. We finished breakfast and got ready to leave.

 We stumbled into our 9 a.m. uber. Gene proceeds to ask Connor about where we are going, connor recits the La Rochelle Aquarium. It is a family-owned public aquarium in La Rochelle France. It has a surface area of over 90,901 square feet, with 3 million litres of seawater. It has 73 display aquaria and 150 quarantine aquaria exhibiting more than 12,000 animals of 600 different species. It has an average of 800,000 visitors per year. The La Rochelle Aquarium is ranked the number one aquarium in France by Tripadvisor, which is why we decided to go there, along with the experience. We've had the same uber driver all trip, and he's pretty nice and he gives us an aux cord. The uber rides are great except for when Connor gets the aux. Me, being the skinny one, always takes the middle seat, which I hate because I have Gene and Connor on my sides. I'm so uncomfortable and have no room. Our uber driver doesn't even speak English that fluently, so we had to guess what he's saying after the five minute hassle to give him our destination. Connor's about had it with Gene, because he got the aux cord and is playing trash songs, such as Matt Ox- Overwhelming. Connors ripped the aux cord out of Gene's phone, plugs it into his cracked iPhone 6 and starts playing his annoying, weird 19th century Irish music. I don't know how people like Connor's music. I'd honestly rather listen to jazz than that. Ethan and Evan sing along, while Gene and I just look at each other shaking our heads and saying, "vote to kick." Car rides are either good or bad because everyone has different tastes in music.

When we pulled up to our destination, I was not thinking this was a aquarium. It looked like a science lab from the outside. We walked inside, and we had about 15 minutes until our tour started. Gene walked over to the Aquarium store, and got some merchandise. Honestly it looked really good. The tour started and the first thing we see are these huge sharks. Evan tells us his back story of sharks, about how when he was in Hawaii. He was swimming with the sharks, and then he got caught by a rock and started bleeding and almost got attacked. The tour guide told us, sharks have a supernatural sense of smell and they hate the smell of blood. Our tour guide was really good and I actually enjoyed him. I didn't get bored even though it was two hours. Next up was the jellyfish exhibit. I don't really know why, but Ethan hates jellyfish, because he apparently got stung by one when he was little. It was kind of like me and elevators. Ethan told us about how he freaked out and how much it hurt.

While we finished up our tour, and tipped our tour guide, he didn't bore us with facts about the animals. He did a good job on the tour. None of us were really in the mood for the aquarium food after looking at the menu, so we just stopped at Mcdonald's and ate there. We have a good relationship with our uber driver, so we got him a iced tea. When we got to the hotel, I felt like I was dead. I walked over to my bed and crashed. I think it was because I didn't have my G-fuel in the morning. Our day came to a close by taking showers and then eating a hotel dinner. After dinner, we went up to the room and all got in bed, and slowly drifted off to sleep.