| The day before Valentine's Day my wife and I wanted | | | | found the building which is nestled in an obscure |
| to do something unique together. When I was a kid I | | | | location on campus. |
| remember going with my Dad to the BYU aquarium, | | | | When we got there, we went down to the bottom |
| but I remembered very little about it. I asked several | | | | floor of the building. To our surprise their was an |
| other BYU students where the aquarium was the | | | | aquarium but, it really was not all that amazing. Along |
| usual response was "There's an aquarium on | | | | the wall was about 4 - 5 fish tanks with about one |
| campus?" | | | | giant fish and a whole lot of little fish per tank. There |
| I did some research online and found a vague | | | | was a crab or lobster, however, not much else. They |
| references to an aquarium on BYU campus in Provo, | | | | have some cool art on the wall showing different |
| Utah. I found out that there was an aquarium in the | | | | scientific facts about fish and underwater life. |
| John A. Widtsoe building and that it was open to the | | | | Apparently this aquarium is used for students to have |
| public. We were determined in our quest to find it. | | | | some real life experience in studying underwater life. |
| We went to the bookstore on campus, which is quite | | | | So if anybody ever asked you if BYU has an |
| amazing I might add, and after browsing the bookstore | | | | aquarium the answer is yes, it just really is not all that |
| asked one of the associates at the front desk where | | | | amazing. If you want to see an amazing aquarium in |
| we could find the Widtsoe building. We were instructed | | | | Utah County, Cabela's near Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, |
| as to where to go. We walked about 400 feet and | | | | Utah is your best bet. |