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07-19-2006, 09:40 PM | #1 |
Inactive Account Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Orange County, CA
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| It was So Gross & Creepy! My sister and I took my neice Dhalys to the Museum of Natural History on Monday to see dinosaur bones for her 10th birthday. Dhalys has been wanting to be a palentologist since she was 4! So off we went. Now, there is a section of the museum dedicated to bugs... I thought they were going to be just bugs stuck on a pin but NOOOoooooooo! They had live bugs in fish tanks! Ok, I need to tell you that my sister and I are ok with most bugs but have a severe phobia of cockroaches. Product of growing up in Japan - The roaches there are black, about 2 inches, with wings and they can fly. Once you share a shower with one - phobia. Period. Ok back to the museum: If the live bug displays wasn't bad enough, they had a display that looked like a fridge and when you open it they showed like roaches and other bugs eating people food! Dhalys was laughing her head off watching me & my sister squirming. Apparently the bugs in that display were not real so I turn to walk away from the "Fridge from Hell" and come face to face with a tank FULL of these 5", albino looking roaches with wings crawling over each other! I couldn't move! I couldn't stop looking! I actually felt all the hairs on my body stand on end! It was..... ewwwwwwww!!!!! My sister and high tailed it out of the bug room! Dhalys just couldn't stop laughing at us! So, later, we went to a traveling display called the "Bog People". It was really dark with this errie music playing and a creepy voice telling a story as we walked though a maze like display of different artifacts dug up from some Bog in Europe. We know Dhalys is a little scared so we are trying to explain what she is seeing and she's taking it all in getting braver with each display. I noticed her walk up to another display and I realize there's a mummy in there! I pointed it out to my sister and we watched her make her way from the feet of the mummy toward the head... she's just standing there then all the sudden she jumps up realizing what she was looking at and comes running to us and grabs us saying "I didn't know what it was until I saw the hair! It's a person mom! A dead person!" We calmed her down and she started asking questions about it and then once she understood why the mummy is there and why it looked the way it did, she was ok and actually took the time to study the next mummy. Ok, I know what its like to be frightened and I felt so bad for her but the evil side of me could not stop laughing... I'm still laughing as I'm writing this.... Oh my gosh... I'm a terrible Aunt!!!
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07-19-2006, 11:24 PM | #2 |
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| I didn't understand what a mummy was until I was older too. Where is the museum? Is it the one in San Diego in Balboa park? I heard they're opening up a dinosaur exhibit. I wanted to take my son. I think you're a good Aunt. You take her places and are honest with her. |
07-20-2006, 11:14 AM | #3 |
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| That is pretty scary! I'm not much of a fan of bugs either... You can't be that bad of an aunt if you're spending time with your niece, I'm sure she loves ya!! |
07-20-2006, 12:29 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 14K Club Member | That sounds like a cool place to go and take the kids. I'm not big on bugs, though....EEEEEEEEK! But I'm sure it was all an experience to never forget!
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07-20-2006, 08:12 PM | #6 |
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| Thank you for the vote of confidence that I'm a good Aunt! I like to think so too but when I couldn't stop laughing I felt so bad! But it was...
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07-20-2006, 08:23 PM | #7 |
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| Sounds like you had a GREAT time! I am sure Dhalys will recover from her meeting with the Mummy long before you recover from yours with the roaches Ok, I need to tell you that my sister and I are ok with most bugs but have a severe phobia of cockroaches. Product of growing up in Japan - The roaches there are black, about 2 inches, with wings and they can fly. Once you share a shower with one - phobia. Period. I can really identify with this one. I grew up in Northern Florida and we had those huge cockroaches that fly. Yucko Plucko, one of my two phobias, rodents are the other . AAnyway, you didn't mention when you step on them to kill the critters.... the popping sound they make and all that nasty white yuck that ooozzzes out. I HATE ROACHES! |
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