| Monday, February 20, 2006 |
| turtle porn |
on Saturday, we went around town a good bit, had some fun, ran some errands, but then found ourselves kind of done in hte area where we wanted to eat, but not quite hungry, and wanting to kill at least an hour. So Sis, in all of her infinite widsom and wonderfulness, brought up the vivarium [look, don't i have such pretty Things? beloved is going to FREAK that i posted their photos]:
So in we went. I do not think that there could have been a better place for us to hang out and have fun. Not only cuz we were with 5, 7 and 9 year olds, either. I had a blast. And I am 33.
There were turtles (oh, sorry, tortoises):
[this guy was about 4 inches long. we really wanted him. not just the girls, but me, too. he was so cute!!! (thing two says that best ... she's the one in the white shirt up above). But alas, we could not purchase the creature. For a few reasons. 1) He was in CA, and we live in MA. Not really feasible. 2, they were relatively expensive, to wit:
and there were lizards:
and some snakes, too .... big ones:
This head was bigger than my hand. The dude was HUGE!! Sis and I tried to put hands in front of the glass for perspective, but .... um, it didn't work. Can you tell how big?
 We spent over an hour in the store. It was fun. They had these spiders that were probably also as big as my hand, and really really gross. They also had tree frogs ... which were a central player in one of my worst nightmares as a child, but they were asleep in a giant pile of Sleepy Tree Frogs, so no nightmares were induced. After some time of looking around, we noticed some weird banging come from the LARGE tortoises' tank. They were, um, about 2 feet long? Maybe 3. We went to see what was going on:
Thing One, who is 9, but rather innocent, was quite curious as to what was going on. She asked me if they were having sex. i said i did not know, b/c i didn't know if turtles had sex. she said, "but then how do they reproduce?" and i - being very much NOT a biology person, said that i think that there are plenty of animals that reproduce when a female lays an egg, and then a male goes to the egg and fertilizes it. Thing One is very inquisitive, and really has no qualms. so she found an employee, and said, "the turtles are on top of each other, what are they doing?" and the employee, who also had no qualms, said, "they are having sex. They do it for about 3 hours a day."
we were quite entranced. thing one and i (does this make me a bad mom?) spent a very long time contorting our postures to see what a turtle penis would look like ....
while i did not catch it on camera, we did find it. it was really spikey.
Thing One is keeping a trip journal. i peeked at it after she went to bed (with her permission, of course), and she commented that the girl turtle "did not seem like she wanted sex." Thing One was right. the girl turtle did NOT look like she was having fun. In fact, she kept eating lettuce. |
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