playing catch-up, part 2.

Recounting all the past events that have happened in the last year and a half. In no particular order. Part Two.

At the aquarium, you can touch shrimp. For some reason, people have a hard time identifying shrimp. When looking at the touch-a-shrimp tank, people often say interesting things. Such as:

"Ooh! Baby lobsters!"
"They bugs?"

and my personal favorite:

"What these be? Crickets?"

People also look at the touch-a-lobster tank and say:

"They bugs?"
"I ain't touchin' no crabs!" (I heard that one a lot)
"Are these seahorses?"

Recently, we replaced the lobsters in the touch-a-lobster exhibit with small sharks. Unfortunately, the management had not taken the "Lobster" sign down yet. A woman looked at the shark and said, "That must be a lobster out of its shell."

And the most impressive of all, at the touch-a-jellyfish exhibit (mind you, people are looking squarely at jellyfish), someone asked:

"What kind of sharks are these?"

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The aquarium features a movie theater where people can watch entertaining and/or educational movies. Both the "front desk," entrance to, and the theater itself are inside the aquarium.

A man walks up to the employee at the theater desk.
Man: Excuse me, where's the aquarium?
Employee: You're in the aquarium.
Man: Yeah, but where's the aquarium?
Employee: All around you. You are inside it. Right now.

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Kid: Mommy, I wanna see the hippos!
Mom: Psssshhht. They don't have hippos!
Me: Yes we do.
Mom: What? Where would you have hippos?
Me: Over there. [points in general direction of hippo exhibit]
Mom: Oh. I've been lying to my kids all day.

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Person at the top of the main staircase: Excuse me, do these stairs go downstairs?

More to come.