3 year Anniversary

Well, our anniversary was great! We woke up and Cole made homemade chocolate chip pancakes ( he does that like 2-3 times a week! I know, I am spoiled)and after spending the morning together as a family, we dropped Dally off at my moms and headed to the Dallas World Aquarium. Now as most of you know, my biggest fear is fish. I know, it's a strange phobia, but it is what it is. I am petrified around fish....they just freak me out.

So you may be asking what possessed me to go to an aquarium? Well, I'll tell you.

When I was in Elementary school, we went on a field trip to the same DWA. I enjoyed it all except toward the end. We went through a large tunnel where all sorts of sharks were swimming all around you. I was already intimidated being surrounded by sharks, but was topped it all was when I looked straight into the 4 inch glass, and looking right at me facing me up close was a huge hammerhead shark. I was so terrified that I screamed and ran out of the tunnel. This is where my fear of fish started.

I told Cole that I wanted to go to this very spot because I wanted to once and for all get over this ridiculous fear. Well, at the very first sight of fish, I immediately went into freak out mode and wanted to turn around and go home. But I persuaded myself to continue and stick it through. It wasn't so bad, minus a few scary parts. I noticed that the smaller and more colorful the fish, the less scary they were to me...which is an improvement. And then the thriller...THE TUNNEL OF DOOM! I wasn't expecting it to creep up on me like it did. I was walking, and then I just looked up, and there he was....the hammerhead himself. (Not the same one, of course, but scary, just the same). I immediately turned around and RAN past the other tourists, who were looking at me funny, toward Cole, grabbed him and started crying. Dramatic, I know. But you just don't get it. This was a traumatic experience in my youth which caused me to DESPISE fish of all kinds, and be terrified of them, and I was facing it after all these years. So holding my hand, Cole and I walked slowly into the tunnel. I found myself able to look at the Sword sharks, the Great Whites, and all others....except the Hammerheads. Those, I could not bring myself to look at. Finally, I walked all the way through without causing a scene, my too patient and loving husband with me the whole way. The rest of the exhibit was all downhill from there. We saw hummingbirds just inches from our face, a jaguar, monkeys, penguins, piranhas, and all sorts of awesome creatures. It was exhilarating, exhausting, and terrifying all at the same time.

Afterwards, we went here for lunch,

here for dessert,

and went home and watched this with a few friends.

Which I will probably never see again. It was kind of stupid. And that means alot coming from a musical junkie.

Overall, it was a great day. :)

Oh and I almost forgot. I got this for Cole's anniversary/birthday gift. We are obsessed with it.