Tuesday, September 18, 2007

A Trip to the Aquarium

So on Saturday, Barron and I ventured to the New England Aquarium for a fun filled day of marginally-sober aquatic entertainment. It was a good day for the Aquarium, as it was drizzling and cold, forcing us to abort our plan to visit the aboreteum. Unforch, that meant that every family within 30 miles of the city also attended. I should have brought earplugs now that think of it.
Anyway, we were promptly greeted by a turtle / shark dance off while waiting in line (the line took approximately 30 minutes to buy tickets). Barron of course participated, which can be seen in the video posted below. Things started getting a little silly and I couldn't wait to get inside.

When you walk in, they try to make you take your picture, which prompted a fight with the lady at the door. This is a cheap marketing ploy. You stand in front of a green screen, and when you leave, they try to sell you a picture of you imposed into the penguin exhibit. Asking to avoid the picture pissed off the lady, but the "bouncer" man told us that he is supposed to make us get our picture taken, but he would not physically stop us from going in through the other line. You suck lady!

We first saw the jelly fish. They have this cool thing where you control the color of the spot light, subsequently making the jelly fish look the same color. While we were looking at this tank, some girl next to us said, "Can you picture what this must be like on acid?" Hmm, maybe I can.

They have a huge fish tank in the middle which some guy explained if it were to break, the structure is designed to dump into the penguins. This sounds like a good idea, but there are going to be a lot of angry penguins if that ever happens. They have all different breeds and sizes of penguins at the aquarium. Josh from WZLX works with the penguins, but we didn't see him in there during feeding time. Upon seeing the Little Blue Penguins, Barron exclaimed "This must be the hatchery!" We almost had to leave the Aquarium because I laugh so hard at him sometimes.
They have this really great frog exibit, including a frog kama sutra! Did you know frogs use many different sexual positions for arosal. There is the backpack, the falling leaf, the leap frog, and the egg roll. These frogs sure know how to get it on around here! We saw a blug poison dart frog and it could kill a monkey if it wanted to (not pictured below).
There is also this exhibit where you can see deep-sea fish that glow in the dark. The only problem is we couldn't figure out if it was open or not, because you have to push through a bunch of layers of velvet fabric and I couldn't figure out how to get in. We must have looked so stupid stuck in this fabric! I am just retarded though and we got in eventually.

Afterwards we found a great place to watch the sunset and Barron made the mistake of telling me this gazebo we saw on the Harbor Walk is pretty cheap to rent so now that is where I am getting married. BYOB and try not to get arrested for drinking in public because I won't be able to afford anything but the ceremony.

Day vs. Night

Peace Out!

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