Aquarium Trip Goes South
It all started with what, we assumed (ya ya I know!) would be a fun Saturday trip to the Newport Aquarium, 2 hours away. One might ask why we'd drive four hours round trip for a couple hours of fishy fun. In hindsight... we might ask too! The trip started great! Kids kinda napped in the car, it was like a date! And then, we got there....
A certain emotional child (who may take after his mother, if I'm to be honest) didn't like the parking garage because it was dark. OK..... We assured him that we would not be staying in the garage and 'look, there's pretty lights'. Which we heard repeated to his sister in the back. Then, the edabator (elevator) was 'scurry' (scary). Should have been a clue, he loves edabators! Or perhaps the clue should have been the price of tickets? what?! seriously?! Well, in the name of fun, we hope it's as great as the sign touts! We are starving! Per usual I bring Jake's food everywhere. Way too hard to figure out if he can actually eat anything. Most times he cannot anyway. So, we buy stuff. Um, holy cow!? Next time we'll have to consider between going to the aquarium and paying the mortgage. Next time? Maybe not... (until they can pay their own way?!) Jake didn't even want his favorites... Maybe it's the crowd, we tell ourselves, he'll snap out of it and love the 'bish'. Ba hahahahah... It's dark in the building, strike one. There are a zillion people, strike two. Strike three, apparently all of the fish aquarium tubes were also scary because the bishes might get jakey. Apparently there was also a strike four. A blazing fever that appeared a few minutes into this maze of sea life. Yippee. We hope that may account for some of the previous strikes? So now what? We already spent $100 bucks walking in the door plus 2 hours of driving. We book it through the rest, pausing mainly for the penguins, which Jake LOVED! And learned a few things;
1. bring Tylenol everywhere
2. Maybe it's just me, but, at the shark petting tank they ask you to keep your hands out of the water until the shark swims by and not to pet it until it's eyes are past you so it doesn't see you. Ummm.... Perhaps we shouldn't be touching them if they hate it so much that you have to sneak up on them? Maybe we should leave them alone!
and 3. sometimes being spontaneous gets far more spontaneous than imagined!
A certain emotional child (who may take after his mother, if I'm to be honest) didn't like the parking garage because it was dark. OK..... We assured him that we would not be staying in the garage and 'look, there's pretty lights'. Which we heard repeated to his sister in the back. Then, the edabator (elevator) was 'scurry' (scary). Should have been a clue, he loves edabators! Or perhaps the clue should have been the price of tickets? what?! seriously?! Well, in the name of fun, we hope it's as great as the sign touts! We are starving! Per usual I bring Jake's food everywhere. Way too hard to figure out if he can actually eat anything. Most times he cannot anyway. So, we buy stuff. Um, holy cow!? Next time we'll have to consider between going to the aquarium and paying the mortgage. Next time? Maybe not... (until they can pay their own way?!) Jake didn't even want his favorites... Maybe it's the crowd, we tell ourselves, he'll snap out of it and love the 'bish'. Ba hahahahah... It's dark in the building, strike one. There are a zillion people, strike two. Strike three, apparently all of the fish aquarium tubes were also scary because the bishes might get jakey. Apparently there was also a strike four. A blazing fever that appeared a few minutes into this maze of sea life. Yippee. We hope that may account for some of the previous strikes? So now what? We already spent $100 bucks walking in the door plus 2 hours of driving. We book it through the rest, pausing mainly for the penguins, which Jake LOVED! And learned a few things;
1. bring Tylenol everywhere
2. Maybe it's just me, but, at the shark petting tank they ask you to keep your hands out of the water until the shark swims by and not to pet it until it's eyes are past you so it doesn't see you. Ummm.... Perhaps we shouldn't be touching them if they hate it so much that you have to sneak up on them? Maybe we should leave them alone!
and 3. sometimes being spontaneous gets far more spontaneous than imagined!
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