We planned a family field trip for Saturday. The "family" consists of me, B, MIA, D Fo, and Tempo. We all go in D Fo's car and drove to the Shedd Aquarium. Highlights include:
- While we were walking there we saw people on Seqways. They were wearing helmets. You look stupid wearing a helmet on a Segway going 10mph.
- I managed to scare B by acting like I was gonna lift her up and throw her into a 7ft tall aquarium.
- There was this one tank containing these super intricate super fragile-looking seahorses. The tank was very dark and there was a huge "no flash photography" sign. Dave said scoffingly "No flash photography? Pff, I wonder how many people ignore that." Precisely 2 seconds later this guy in the crowd lines up his camera right up to the tank and blasts the seahorses with a camera flash. All of us scatter and begin laughing uncontrollably. I wouldn't be surprised if that flash instantly killed all of those fish.
- We were debating throughout the day if marine animals can "frolic." They definitely can.
- D Fo had a good quote. "The more I look at these things the more I think evolution is bullshit."
- I kept saying I wish I brought a mini axe so that I could shatter the fish tanks.
- We showed up early and went to a bar they had downstairs. B got some sort of martini and I got a manhattan, which was very good. I suggested B to try some of it. She took what was maybe a 2mL sip and her face looked like she just ate an entire lemon orchard. Hilarious.
- One of the appetizers we got was called the Rock. It was this heated rock and you cook these thin strips of steak right on it. It took only a few seconds. Tasty.
- We got sushi, which I don't normally eat. It's not because I don't like it but because I don't really know what to get and I get a little hesitant getting it from just anywhere. It tasted like the ocean. Very tasty.
- I somehow managed to use chopsticks without looking like a total dumbass.
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Raaad. Two days ago was at a little aquarium called _the Atlantic Ocean_... you may have heard of it. I don't remember where I was exactly, but it was kinda but not really close to Hiltonhead. I didn't get any sushi; I did get fried-everything-ever, a sunburn, and a gnar gnar scrape on my head from body surfing. My back is itchy and Google Maps doesn't know where the dermatologists in bumfuck Cookeville are.
~Jesse
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