Disney Trip (May 20, 2013): "Nah ... it felt rough..." Edition

We had planned to go to the Georgia Aquarium after the intense propaganda of World of Coke but before the intense sogginess of the Braves game. We asked the guy at the ticket gate if we had time and he gave us a "No way Jose." So we hit it on the way out of Atlanta. Here's the thing: underwater stuff has always given me the creeps. This thing was horrible.










The penguin habitat was great. You crawl through a tunnel to get to these plexiglass enclosures where the penguins refuse to acknowledge you exist. Good for them!

Unlike me, the mom could stand up in this without sustaining a mild concussion.










My mantra through this area of the aquarium was "It won't break. It won't break. It won't break. It won't break."

We had better photos of this, but this one most closely approximates the experience of spending all day every day for a week with Jefferson.

I wouldn't have touched this thing for $100 as a kid. Heck, I wouldn't touch it now.

He wanted to see what Patrick felt like. Kinda rough.

When I was a kid, Shakey's was probably my favorite place. As my homies know, the Springfield, MO, Shakey's closed and reopened as a strip club. When I found out that there was still a Shakey's in Warner Robins, GA, we had to make the detour.












Does this look familiar to anyone?










What about this?

Well, it had one of the filthiest restrooms I've seen in awhile, but the pizza and mojos were exactly right. No more must my sense of childhood nostalgia of Shakey's be tainted by the seedy facade of the Pink Cadillac.