"Jaden...What do you want to do today?"
"Grandpa,! You're blocking the TV!"
I had heard this one way too often lately, So I turned it off and shut down the Xbox and said, "Jaden, Get 'yer shirt on, we're going on a road trip."
Jaden put his shirt on and headed for the door. There was a little protest in his manner. It actually looked like he was wrestling with his shirt to get it on, but he won the battle and we jumped in the car, setting the controls south for Maalaea Harbour.
There is an aquarium there called the Maui Ocean Center. It has what you'd expect from an aquarium, tons of displays about the ocean, turtle tanks, eagle rays, hammerheads and schools of fish swarming. We made our way through the maze, spiraling down to the basement level. It was almost agonizing. Jaden could not wait to get through the whole thing, get back in the car and go home to his beloved Xbox, when all of the sudden, you enter this long, deep hall with a bluish glow dancing on the far end. It really looked like the glow from a Television emanating from a room down a dark hallway. It took a minute to get to the source of that glow, which shimmered upon the walls as we approached it. We turned the final corner and the small corridor opened up to a cavernous viewing room with a huge glass wall that looked in on an undersea world of wonder.
He sat there for half an hour and did not speak a word, lost in amazement.
The picture speaks for itself.
The score: Grandpa 1, Xbox 0.
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