Under the sea, darling it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me


It's hungry hungry hippo!

I'm old, I had an educational Saturday by visiting the Adventure Aquarium. It's definitely a lot better in there from the last time I went in there, but it's still pretty tiny compared to others. I got to touch a baby shark today. It was kinda rough feeling, not what I imagined. I was too freaked out about the sting ray but Kevin touched it and said it was gross & slimy. We paid $3 extra to see what the 4D show was about. I went in there thinking it would be like that dinosaur ride they had in Great Adventure where the seats just move a bit. First of all, we get the world's coolest glasses ever (total sarcasm there), they were almost bigger than half of my head so it was hard keeping them from sliding off. I got freaked right from the start. I didn't expect the seats to be flying back so hard and fast at all. Then as we watched ourselves submerge, the backs of the seats in front of us shot us with water. Minutes later, there was a scene with some coral reef things that looked like worms and I suddenly feel a stingy rope thing start slapping my legs! Since my legs were bare, it kinda stung so I tucked my legs up on the seat. The show was around 15 minutes, it was cheesey but I thought the water and little hose gimmick was cool since it wasn't expected. But the real highlight of my day was....seeing hippos! In all honesty, I've never seen an indoor underwater exhibit with hippos before. There were only 2 of them, it was so hard trying to get a shot of either one of them. For something that huge, they moved fast. I don't know why I think they're cute, maybe because they're so huge and goofy looking. I have this strange fixation with their teeth, I know they're supposed to be huge and round so I was hoping one of them would open wide but they never did.