Jazz night at the Aquarium was great! Great tradition.
The weather Saturday was great. Here is a picture of the coast.
Started with dinner at the Crazy Horse. It has a really good salad bar. Had a full 4 course meal, salad, pasta, meat and dessert, or put another way: fiber, carb, protein and sugar. $10 bucks, what a deal. Alway enjoy eating here. This isn't fresh choice or sweet tomatos, but good. The service is also very good. Water glass is always filled, which is one of my biggest rating factors of a resturant. The plates are removed, the waitresses are friendly and the place is clean.
Jazz night has two great things going for it. One is that there are no lines or crowds. You don't feel presure to look and move on because of the other 30 people around you. And of course the other is the music. Always great music. Nothing like listening to jazz and seeing a 6 foot shark in the background.
Everyone was out for the party.
The bat rays where in a friendly mood. Did not have to stand around for 20 minutes waiting for one to want to be petted. One of the few things that feel better than having your hand on the naked butt of your girlfriend.
The aquarium has a "petting"area. A place where they have live statfish and mullusks, sea cucumbers and you can touch them. This is the first time they have had this area staffed for jazz night. It was really cool. Got to touch a sea cucumber.
There is another exhibit that must be experienced. There is a tide pool that is fed by running water over a glass roof. You stand there and this rush of who know how much water running over your head. I it a rush. If they put a comfortable chair there I'd just take a nap with the sound of these big rushes of water happening ever minute.
Lavey Smith sounded great and looked great. The Skillet Lickers have an amazing set up musicians. I was hoping she would have had a new album for sale. Her last album was 10 years ago.
The other groups were also good. It was scary, a man with two accordions. Do accordions get tuned to different keys? "Play an acordion, go to jail" as a friend of mine says. don't know if he made it up or it is someone elses line. Two accordions mean the firing sqad?
The group with the accordion had a guy playing an 8 string guitar like instrument. It sounded really cool.
There is this one group of women that get stuck by the penguin exhibit every year. Peguins smell really really bad. They have an Andrew Sisters thing going. They sing like the Andrew sisters, but play their own instruments.
I was disapointed. I always look forward to seeing the big outer bay tank. There is usually a Sun Fish and a sea turtle. The Sun fish gets too big and they have to release it and wait for another one to be found. I don't know why the sea tutrle was not there. This is the same tank where the white sharks was kept for the six months.
That was pretty wild when they had it. I'll never forget looking for it and having it just appear. It was only about 5 foot at the time, but it was still scary to see the snaggly toothed mouth approach you. Even if protected by 6 inched of glass.
The traditional venders were there. Odwalla has free samples and on the way out, See's Candies has freebees. This year it was their lolly pops. I had a butterscotch. Can't beat butterscotch.
I bought a new digital camera. It has ISO800 sensitivity builtin. I thinks I got a few good shots. Unfortunately i forgot my USB cable. So it will have to wait until tonight. I update this post with some photos.
The weather Saturday was great. Here is a picture of the coast.
Started with dinner at the Crazy Horse. It has a really good salad bar. Had a full 4 course meal, salad, pasta, meat and dessert, or put another way: fiber, carb, protein and sugar. $10 bucks, what a deal. Alway enjoy eating here. This isn't fresh choice or sweet tomatos, but good. The service is also very good. Water glass is always filled, which is one of my biggest rating factors of a resturant. The plates are removed, the waitresses are friendly and the place is clean.
Jazz night has two great things going for it. One is that there are no lines or crowds. You don't feel presure to look and move on because of the other 30 people around you. And of course the other is the music. Always great music. Nothing like listening to jazz and seeing a 6 foot shark in the background.
Everyone was out for the party.
The bat rays where in a friendly mood. Did not have to stand around for 20 minutes waiting for one to want to be petted. One of the few things that feel better than having your hand on the naked butt of your girlfriend.
The aquarium has a "petting"area. A place where they have live statfish and mullusks, sea cucumbers and you can touch them. This is the first time they have had this area staffed for jazz night. It was really cool. Got to touch a sea cucumber.
There is another exhibit that must be experienced. There is a tide pool that is fed by running water over a glass roof. You stand there and this rush of who know how much water running over your head. I it a rush. If they put a comfortable chair there I'd just take a nap with the sound of these big rushes of water happening ever minute.
Lavey Smith sounded great and looked great. The Skillet Lickers have an amazing set up musicians. I was hoping she would have had a new album for sale. Her last album was 10 years ago.
The other groups were also good. It was scary, a man with two accordions. Do accordions get tuned to different keys? "Play an acordion, go to jail" as a friend of mine says. don't know if he made it up or it is someone elses line. Two accordions mean the firing sqad?
The group with the accordion had a guy playing an 8 string guitar like instrument. It sounded really cool.
There is this one group of women that get stuck by the penguin exhibit every year. Peguins smell really really bad. They have an Andrew Sisters thing going. They sing like the Andrew sisters, but play their own instruments.
I was disapointed. I always look forward to seeing the big outer bay tank. There is usually a Sun Fish and a sea turtle. The Sun fish gets too big and they have to release it and wait for another one to be found. I don't know why the sea tutrle was not there. This is the same tank where the white sharks was kept for the six months.
That was pretty wild when they had it. I'll never forget looking for it and having it just appear. It was only about 5 foot at the time, but it was still scary to see the snaggly toothed mouth approach you. Even if protected by 6 inched of glass.
The traditional venders were there. Odwalla has free samples and on the way out, See's Candies has freebees. This year it was their lolly pops. I had a butterscotch. Can't beat butterscotch.
I bought a new digital camera. It has ISO800 sensitivity builtin. I thinks I got a few good shots. Unfortunately i forgot my USB cable. So it will have to wait until tonight. I update this post with some photos.
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