So, we took Alexa and Kate to the Georgia Aquarium last weekend.  We love a good educational “field trip” plus, the girls had a lot of fun.  Alexa LOVES any ocean creature so it was super cool for her see and learn about everything.  And Kate was on repeat, alternating between “What’s that thing?” and “Fish! Blub, blub, blub” (in music class, they say that a fish says “blub” – I just go with it).  Anyway, while we were there, I came to an interesting realization.  I don’t like dolphins.  Yeah, that’s right.  I said it.  Those fun loving aquatic mammals that everyone is obsessed with?  The animal that would win “most likely sea creature to be tattooed on a 18 year old sorority girl’s hip”?  They’re irritating.  I feel like they spend their entire lives showing off.  And as we were watching the super corny dolphin show, all I could think about was how much I now appreciated the scene in Finding Nemo where Chum (a shark) says this:

Well done, Disney, well done.  You know, what’s wrong with a whale or a manatee?  Manatees are awesome!  They are gentle, they eat a lot of greens and they don’t bother anyone.  I assume that in the ocean, when the other wildlife see the dolphins coming, they swim the other way and try to hide.  I mean really, who wants to hear someone constantly talk about how fantastic they are, how fast they can swim, how long they can hold their breath, how they hunt in groups?  Who cares?!  I’m sure that they do the same sort of bragging when they live in an aquarium too.  And when that happens, I assume that the other mammals and fish in the aquarium just swim away and shake their heads.  They probably talk about them later saying stuff like “What the hell are they bragging about?!  Those bitches got caught just like the rest of us!”.  Dumbasses.  I realize that I have no fact to base this on and that this is purely my perception of what may go on between sea creatures, assuming that they can communicate.  But in my small mind, this is what I imagine.  I just feel like the hype over dolphins is too big, they steal all of the other sea mammals’ thunder and we should all love manatees.

(I actually wrote this last January but never published it.  Alexa still loves all things that are in the ocean but Kate is no longer repeating the word “blub” every time she sees a fish! 🙂  I still do not like dolphins.)