When I was a little girl, I had a recurring nightmare about going down a plastic slide and being submerged in the bottom of a shark tank. To my youthful mind, this fear was paralysing, nerve-wracking, horrifying. My worst fear.
As I grew older, I convinced myself it wasn’t really anything to lose sleep over, because you see I live in Canada, where the only sharks around are safely ensconced in places like Marineland, where I have made it a policy NEVER TO VISIT.
However. Now I am in the Bahamas. And my cousins *really* want to go for a day trip to Atlantis on Paradise Island, because you see, they have all these cool water attractions there. Including the “five story corkscrew Serpent Slide, where guests travel on a tube at high speeds through the darkness of the Mayan Temple’s core, culminating with a leisurely pass through a clear acrylic tunnel submerged in a shark-filled lagoon.” I shit you not. My nightmare exists. And my cousins want me to plunge into it.
And now… my first ever poll! Give me your input on my holiday activities (or lack thereof).
I had forgotten there was a reason I was supposed to be glad everyone but me is always haring off the the Bahamas. 😀
That’s like someone inviting me to go stand on a balcony on top of a really high, shakey tower. *shiver*
Yeah, we stayed away from “Everybody Loves Marine Land”, or the marine vertebrate gulag, as Chrissy describes it.
Regarding Atlantis Land, c’mon, you can “come face to face with the awesome predators as you walk through the 100-ft clear underwater tunnel beneath the lagoon”! Doesn’t sound anything like the nightmare, there aren’t any freakish fry kids running behind you.
Hey!
My balcony doesn’t shake!
I wanted to cast my vote, but I couldn’t as I am not a Live Journal user. I cast 10 votes to go for it. Cast the Rum aside and live on the edge. You won’t regret it! In the end you’ll walk away and have a great story to tell, even if it was how terrified you were. If you don’t go for it, you have nothing….
By the way, I read Neil Gaiman’s Journal entries and found a link to your journal from there. I am now a regular reader. Enjoy your stay in the Bahamas!
Dewey
http://www.deweysworld.com
“a clear acrylic tunnel…”
hello to the claustrophobia.
Wow! I am now forced to reconsider my withdrawal of your name from the future husband raffle. Nicotine be damned, your web fu is brilliant.
I hunted high and low for a picture of the freaky fry kids – to no avail. And here you have found one, in less than 24 hours of my post.
I bow to you once more, mighty Caellum.
*awed genuflection*
Wait, when was my name withdrawn? I thought I was still in the pool??!! I could have been a contender! Could it be… my lack of papers? I am getting a passport this week. But first you must hear of my brilliant escape from US Customs, coming to an LJ near you in two minutes or twenty.
-caellum, Web Fu, Fu Fu Fo YU
I would personally do the following – drink a whole lot of rum and THEN do the slide. That way, you won’t be so scared.
Plus, yum, rum!