tony hipchest
03-21-2009, 01:11 AM
shes 5 1/2 years old and it was on tonight so i figured it was about time (i 1st saw it when i was about 4 or 5).
i figured this would turn out better than when i took her on her 1st rollercoaster ride (jackrabbit at kennywood) at the age of four.
she kinda paid attention for most of the 1st half which is the boring half. she laughed at the leg floating down in the water. she got into the suspense of the beach attacks and the music (now she knows why our aquarium red tailed shark is named "nuh-nuh")
when the little boy was eaten she asked if the shark ate a little girl. since im not into mentally torturing a 5 year old or striking them with the fear of God (or sharks) i simply told her "no" since sharks dont like little girls because they stink and taste bad.
the next 30 minutes i had to explain how to fish for a shark and how shooting them with a floating barrel attached makes them tired. she was excited to finally see the shark and naturally scared at the appropriate points.
as she crawled into my lap she said she was scared of getting bit. i asked her how something on the tv could bite her. she said what about in the tub? i asked her how a great big ol' shark like that could possibly get in a tiny ol bathtub.
she understood and she was glued.
she asked if the shark was happy after eating quinn. i said that he was happy that he was full. when the shark went after the others, she said "uh-oh... hes going back for desert" :chuckle:
when the oxygen canister blew up the shark she burst out in laughter. she couldnt stop talking about it. she laughed, and i laughed, then she laughed some more, so i embellished more laughing.
then she said we shoulda watched it on the other tv (with the dvr) so we coulda recorded it. when i told her i already had it on disk, she immediately asked if we could watch it again tomorrow. :thumbsup:
of course i said yes. :tt03:
i figured this would turn out better than when i took her on her 1st rollercoaster ride (jackrabbit at kennywood) at the age of four.
she kinda paid attention for most of the 1st half which is the boring half. she laughed at the leg floating down in the water. she got into the suspense of the beach attacks and the music (now she knows why our aquarium red tailed shark is named "nuh-nuh")
when the little boy was eaten she asked if the shark ate a little girl. since im not into mentally torturing a 5 year old or striking them with the fear of God (or sharks) i simply told her "no" since sharks dont like little girls because they stink and taste bad.
the next 30 minutes i had to explain how to fish for a shark and how shooting them with a floating barrel attached makes them tired. she was excited to finally see the shark and naturally scared at the appropriate points.
as she crawled into my lap she said she was scared of getting bit. i asked her how something on the tv could bite her. she said what about in the tub? i asked her how a great big ol' shark like that could possibly get in a tiny ol bathtub.
she understood and she was glued.
she asked if the shark was happy after eating quinn. i said that he was happy that he was full. when the shark went after the others, she said "uh-oh... hes going back for desert" :chuckle:
when the oxygen canister blew up the shark she burst out in laughter. she couldnt stop talking about it. she laughed, and i laughed, then she laughed some more, so i embellished more laughing.
then she said we shoulda watched it on the other tv (with the dvr) so we coulda recorded it. when i told her i already had it on disk, she immediately asked if we could watch it again tomorrow. :thumbsup:
of course i said yes. :tt03: