At the Waikiki Aquarium for Marine Munchies - a private tour of the aquarium during feeding time!

I was afraid I’d forget this entire chat on the way home from an aquarium tour – a private tour! – we’d arranged for some friends on a day off from school. So I jotted things down immediately.  The tour was at 4:30-6pm, for 7 boys age 7 and under. What were we thinking? It’s happy hour at that time for boys. Just wild-making time. But they did really well overall and it was a great tour for all…especially the octopus opening a jar! We loved seeing the fish eat and learning so many things from the guides, Mary and Kanako. So here’s the chat about boys…

“Wild?”

“Yeah. Why when we arrived at the aquarium were you all jumping off anything you could find, twirling around and yelling?”

“That’s just how boys are. We are wild”

“Is that just how you are? What else do I need to know about boys?”

“Well, we are big. And we eat a lot. And so we have a lot of energy. The highest maintenance age is 1. When you are 1 you can’t do anything, you don’t know all the rules. You just eat. When you are 6 or 7 you’re not as high maintenance, it gets lower, then when you are much older, like 99, you are very high maintenance again like a brown a dwarf, or any star – you have a lot of fuel to burn.”

“OK. Thank you Sam. That clears it up.”

Ben: “Our dad is in uh…JAPAN! Yeah. Now you listen here young man!”