Our trip with the sea otters #montereybay #seaotter

No, we didn’t actually swim WITH sea otters, but we went on a kayaking trip and got to see sea see sea otters.  (tee hee).

 

And we apparently went on one with a rookie tour guide, because the first other  creature we saw, the tour guide didn’t know what it was.  That is always a good sign (no offense to the tour or the guide).

 

The creature was this jelly sack thing.  It looked like a zebra if a zebra was a slug.  It was as big as a child’s hand and it was literally this sack of internal organs, and it sprayed this yellow ink when we picked it up (well it didn’t actually spray, but it oozed it out).

 

But this has nothing to do with sea otters.

Something that has to do with it is when one of them climbed up on a kayak.

 

One of our classmates was tooling around somewhere very far away from the tour guide for whatever reason, and a sea otter just jumped up and climbed onto the back of the kayak and just laid there like the otter owned it.

There was also a dog.  In the kayak.  It actually didn’t do a damn thing.  I don’t know why.

 

So we shoved the otter off the boat.  After that the otter just rolled over onto its back and didn’t give any more shits.  That was okay…we had enough shits.*//Delete this joke//*

 

After this we drove to the hotel, waited until the dead of night and then me, my brother, and his girlfriend explored the hotel.  And rooted through every drawer we could find (they did, not me).

Once we made it to the ground floor, we sat around a fireplace and my brother stole an apple because apples are cool I guess.  Then my brother’s girlfriend made a joke about the vase of flowers on the table.  Because we apparently assumed she was a plant.

 

We talked about her sudden transformation into a humanoid plant, then she said she could hear other plants talking.  We asked her what the flowers on the table were saying, and she told us: “They’re saying: ‘We are GMO plants and we have no soul!‘”

It was funny.  Because being genetically engineered apparently means your leafy-green exterior will be sent straight to hell as soon as you die…or something like that.

And plants understand that they’re GMO’ed and what that means.  Obviously.

 

Anyway, barring oddly specific plant telepathy, after that we went to the aquarium and saw otters get fed.  They were cute.

Then hip-hop jellyfish.  Because the thing you think of when you see bright flashing wobbly-glass-like creatures of death, is hip-hop/rock/90’s/whatever music.  Or at least that’s what the people that built the exhibit thought of.

And there was this tank with little cute jellyfish that were lots of different colors and there were so many and they went push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push-push and then one of them bopped into the tank wall and AWWW KAWAII DESU NE?!

But the one disappointing thing about the exhibit is that the one room that actually HAD flashing lights (because none of the other rooms did for one reason or none), didn’t use hip-hop music.  NAN DESU KA?!?

Anyway, that was our trip.  Kind of boring, but kind of cool.  Ish.