Just like in The Little Mermaid. Last night after the show at the Grand Olde Opry, we went across the way to this restaurant called The Aquarium. Since the show was at 6:30 and we needed to be there at 6 to pick up the tickets, we had a really early dinner so we needed to go out for dessert and coffee after the show.
This place had an enormous aquarium in the middle of the place. It seems I don’t know as much about fish as I thought because I always thought they had to be constantly moving. Something about a constant flow of water in through their mouths & out their gills. There was this shark lying across a rock, just sitting there. Okay, not sitting. Fish don’t sit unless they’re cartoon fish. We found out this was normal behavior for that sort of shark. In addition to not knowing much about fish, I can’t remember crap because I don’t remember what sort of shark it was, only that it was a female. Big Fat Lazy Girl Shark? Nah, that doesn’t sound familiar.
It’s not a terribly good picture because there wasn’t much light but if you look carefully, you can see the sleeping shark towards the middle, left side of the photo.
Good thing there wasn’t sushi on the menu, especially eel sushi. I’m not sure I’d have been very hungry for it after seeing the 2 huge, green eels in the tank. They were the freakiest things I ever saw. Lime green, blue eyes, a little hole instead of gills and just freakish looking. Now, every time I go to a Japanese restaurant, I’m going to see those blue eyes staring at me when I eat eel.
I have no clue whether or not the food in this restaurant is any good but the dessert sure was. I had some sort of chocolate pecan pie, which, of course I didn’t pronounce right. (What accent? I don’t have no stinkin’ accent!) Frank had an enormous piece of NY cheesecake (why would one get NY cheesecake in Nashville?), Lou had bread pudding & Bill had some sort of berry cobbler. The only reason there was any left uneaten was because the portions were enormous.
There was some talk, going into the restaurant about whether or not it would smell of fish. It seems last month a woman overheard Lou & Bill talking about this place and she said it was horrible in there, that it smelled like fish. It didn’t. Later, as we were leaving, we wandered into this place that looked like a party place for kids and they had a bunch of stingrays. Now that place smelled. We think the lady went in there instead of the restaurant. Probably ate the sting ray food by mistake, too. Never smelled anything quite like that before. If that’s what sting rays smell like, I don’t think I want one of them as a pet.
