such a nice surprise....

Friday night Robin got coerced into babysitting…ha ha….so I made plans to go to the movies with Kirk, Kyle, Joel and Heather. I made plans to meet up with Kyle at his place. When I got there I was very excited to see that he had gotten a hair cut, and bathed. It was a nice surprise. As usual with Kyle, plans change. Now we were going to meet up with everyone down at the Dallas World Aquarium because Joel and Kirk had to do some computer work before the grand opening of the Mayan exhibit the next day. When we get there (late) we are greeted by a rather plump man who took us in to the aquarium. The smell of that place is disgusting. Think of everything foul and bad and roll it into one giant smell then add vinegar, and you are still no where near what this was. Allegedly, it came from the penguins, but I saw no penguins. Probably because it was their dead decomposing bodies is what was producing the putrid odor. Anyhow once my sense of smell was rendered useless we got to do this private tour. We started off upstairs in the new shark tank. We were looking down into the tank where all you could see were these bloody fins breaking the water. Apparently the sharks scrape their fins on something but they aren’t sure. Not that cool. Then I realized what a freaking disaster this could be. The railing to the tank is not very tall, probably reaches chest size to and adult. What I predict is someone wearing a pair of jean shorts and a wife beater that they have made themselves from an old t-shirt, and mandals, holding their equally fashionable child over the railing, then a wicked case of DT’s set in and he violently shakes his child submersing him in the shark infested water. This could double both as a Real TV episode and Cops. Now that’s an exhibit. We next visited the River Otters. (Keep in mind that all of these animals are new to captivity and are just as interested in us as we are to them.) When I think of otters I think of cute furry, swims on its back, cracks open oysters with a rock, likes to slide in the snow, cartoonish creatures. Not the case with the River Otter. This mongrel is six feet long and has razor sharp fangs that I was not so impressed with. It stared at me a while wondering how he could rip the flesh from my face then did a nose dive into the water only to attack his other otter friend who is living in the same cage as he was. Not so cute. I quickly moved along. Of course there are all those silly birds. Not a big fan of the birds since all of my unfortunate run ins with them…nothing good comes of a bird so I moseyed s fast as I could through those. We then came up to the shark tunnel. This was the underside version of what we saw before. (which would be great viewing if a child was to fall in.) These creepy sharks just kept coming up to the glass and staring at us with their bloody noses and yucky gills, I didn’t much care for all of that. But it was neat. I was ready to leave and breath fresh air again so we hit our last little area which was the manatees. Now these things were awesome. They were huge and fat and would roll around on their backs and they looked like dogs. I liked them up until I saw one poop. Then I was done. We left the stinkquarium and went to the Velvet Hookah. I am not a fan of the velvet hookah, nor any hookah for that matter. We were surprised to see that Elimidate was being filmed there. It was awesome. These guys were morons. And I have to say I am a little let down by Elimidate. They feed the guys their lines…I thought it was real. Well, everyone began encouraging me to learn how to belly dance…and the 3 margaritas weren’t helping to dissuade me. So when Shamara came over she started to show me all the moves. Pretty soon I had some castanets clinking and my hips popping to the timeless tune of Hotel California..with sitars…then I took a shot and promptly got sick. Thanks Kyle…