Concerning Fish & Sushi

The Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, in celebration of its "Shark Summer," is offering Shark Summer Sundays. Adults can get in for the child's ticket price ($11.95) after 5 pm and they've extended their hours to close at 10 pm. Keep in mind, however, that parking is $7, so carpool or take a big group to make your trip well worth it.

Hannah & I decided to get in on this sweet deal mostly due to the fact that we can never-the-hell make any decisions when we spend time together. I'll call her up (because I'm the initiator) and force her to see my ugly face & then we'll proceed to utter incoherent suggestions to veil the inevitable silence that follows after the question, "So...what do you want to do?" Thank sweet Jesus for The Aquarium of the Pacific. I don't care if you're overpriced & filled with snotty loud children who insist on fingerprinting themselves on all of the nicely Windex-ed Aquarium glass, drooling babies in their strollers, and exasperated parents . . . at least you entertain my otherwise boring Sunday nights.

I will say though, that after you've seen one glass tank filled with water & fish, you've pretty much seen them all. The shark & stingray exhibits outside were the highlight of the entire trip because I'm all for touching things --especially if they're slimey and phlegmy. After a while I began to wish that every creature we saw was edible, so we decided to leave and have a late night feast of sushi. Yum.