Monday 8 February 2010: When the boat comes in

My life has taken an unpredicted aquatic turn in the last 24 hours.

It all started yesterday evening, when Bella and I sat down to watch Finding Nemo. She seemed OK when the pointy-toothy fish ate Nemo's mum and all his brother and sister eggs at the beginning, but when the scary diver took nemo away on the speedboat, her world fell apart.

Eventually, consoled, she insisted she wanted to carry on but only got as far as the shark scene before Layla had to take her off to bed. Poor thing.

This morning, I thought it might be good to go to Deep Sea World to overcome her fear by seeing some real sharks. As luck would have it, the sharks were being fed by divers bearing a remarkable resemblance to those who took Nemo and she had a rare time. Bonus. Two fears conquered for the price of one (or so you'd be forgiven for thinking if you hadn't seen the prices at that place).

We celebrated with fish fingers and a trip back to Aquacadabra to restock the Chinese Water Torture Cell.

Three new fish (Stanley, Flat and Maurice (because we remembered Nemo's dad's name started with 'M' but could remember the rest (turns out it was 'Marlin' but never mind))) safely moved into their new home, we sat down to watch the remaining hour of our movie.

She was much more into it, completely unafraid of the sharks (although I had to hold her hand when the deep sea angler appeared) and tearless. Until the very end that is, when everyone got back together to live happily ever after and she suffered another emotional breakdown.

If her mum's anything to go by, she'll never be cured of that.

E-P1 : f/1.7 : 1/13" : 20mm : ISO 800

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Comments

1. Lovely shot, lovely story :)

   ~ AmErica

2. Just keep swimming, keep on swimming...
   
   I really want to see Nemo again now.
   
   And go to Deep Sea World too.

   ~ Red

3. Fantastic shot :)

   ~ rutherfordium

4. Good luck with the newcomers, hope they don't have swanky tails and popeyes.
   
   
   I had fish for tea, it was a supper and BTW I'm considering the request to see the Clydesdale horse
   
   
   As if I don't get enough abuse already.....

   ~ hope

5. 'swanky tails and popeyes'... oops. Maurice has mega-bugeyes and balloon-like things on his cheeks. I haven't managed to count all his tails yet.
   
   ...and you haven't clicked 'ignore' yet?!

   ~ Joe

6. I said 'considering'
   
   Call me a pessimist but...
   
   .....four Matchboxes, white paint, a teaspoon, two lollipop sticks and a corner of the garden, Got that?
   
   

   ~ hope

7. you're an awesome dad.

   ~ cew

8. Awwww! Great story and great shot!! :)

   ~ HERE

9. Aaah what a cute story!!

   ~ Mallary

10. Oh my gosh, this looks like it belongs in national geographic! The colors are phenomenal.

    ~ laurgurl326