As a kid a got Sea Monkeys from my mom. I remember looking at that package and the picture of the Sea Monkey family with their little crowns and tridents and smiley faces. I could not wait to grow my own little Sea Monkey family! I imagined talking to them ….. asking them questions about what it was like to live in the sea …. sharing my twinkies with them …. on and on and on. Well, as we all know, when those little eggs eventually hatch it’s pretty disappointing. I learned recently that ’sea monkeys’ is a slang term used to describe something that disappoints.
Of course I couldn’t resist buying Sea Monkeys for my kid. After all, we all need to learn these hard lessons early in life, right? Well, I have to say these little guys have not been so disappointing! They started as little microscopic dots that ‘go against the current’ to full on miniature ’shrimp like’ creatures making babies and everything - not quite as good as the package implies - but, still pretty cool! The best part for my 10 year old is the mating part, of course! You can’t beat this much fun for only 88 cents at Walmart.
So ~ this opens an experimental feature to Siskiyoutopia - “Applehead Finds” where I’ll feature some kooky thing that is generally cheap, entertaining, and probably really childish! Did you have Sea Monkeys as a kid?
