Now, let me just start out by saying if there's one thing I expect to see everywhere I go, it's sea otters. Did I get to see any today? No I did not. So that you don't have to suffer the same fate of an otterless-day that I have suffered, I offer you the following stolen otter:

Ok then. Now, on to the things I did get to see today (none of which were sea otters, several of which were penguins):

Then there were sharks. They were all in this one tank together, and one was strutting around like the badass boss of the tank that he clearly was, with a whole little posse following him. I kept hoping he would turn around and eat some as a reminder of his dominance, but I guess he was comfortable with his position. I could've used some re-assurance, though:

This is all stuff that was in the biggest tank with the biggest sharks. I can't imagine being a shark and not wanting to eat this stuff, so I assume it was all food. Oh, except that kid. He wasn't in the tank. He just showed up on the film. He's probably the ghost of some kid that was bad at the aquarium and got thrown to the sharks with some cement shoes on:

Ok, now, the following pictures look a little trippy. I don't think cameras can do drugs, and I doubt this is a magic camera (which would really be kickass, and if anyone out there can make me a magic camera, please feel free to email me). Look, you try taking pictures through several very thick inches of glass, ok?:

Then we saw Mr. Pinchy. Someone's been coddlin' him:

Right about now you're probably wondering where all the sea otters are. I sure was, so I had to go and steal more otter pictures from the websites of people who actually got to see some:

You didn't think that was ALL of the trippy photos, I hope. You may think it's a fish, but it might really be the biggest, oggiest eel ever to be hiding half of its body in the coral:

Seahorses! (Not to be confused with seamonkeys, something else I expect to see at an aquarium but which this particular one was sorely lacking in):

Then we saw some more non-otter entities:

This eel was about 4 feet long and easily the most horrifying thing I've ever seen in my life:

They had a frog:

But no otters:

I'm not not licking toads:

They also had a crazy metroid tank. Of jellyfish:

Hey, did you see this really cool HAH! got your picture:

Then there was a fish with a big nose, and a spotted eel:

But yet again, no otters:

There was this big tank with these two tiny tiny sharks in it. Don't let this picture deceive you, the poor little fella was smaller than my foot. They were there so that little children could pet them. Joshua didn't pet them though, because he "didn't want to get his hands wet". If you catch my drift.

They also had some tropical birds at the aquarium. Because that makes sense, you know? It would be illogical to have a single sea otter at an aquarium, but I definitely think birds are necessary. They live under the sea, right?

Oh yeah, and the octopus. He didn't look anything like what they look like in cartoons, so I don't think it was a real octopus.

This shark painting was scarier than those little petting sharks. I just wanted to make sure we had some comparison here. Painting = scary. Tiny sharks for petting = not scary. Just FYI.

Then, Joshua proposed when Jaws popped out of the water (because face it, everyone wants Mr. Toad's Wild Ride). We're getting married in April. Seriously.

We were afraid for a minute that Joshua was going to get swallowed up by the dead fossilized shark, but I saved him. I saved him from the petting sharks too. And the painting.

Then there were the seals. Now, don't get me wrong, I dig seals. They swim upside down and are generally swell creatures, but in my experience they usually come with a side order of sea otter. And you may recall my previous mention of the lack of otters:

and they lived happily ever after.