A few days ago I was at SeaWorld, a fish-related amusement park, with Bean, my friend Caroline, and her Bean-age daughter. There's stroller parking everywhere 'cause you can't take your stroller into a lot of the exhibits. We took the kids through the penguin habitat once... twice... OK, three times... and when we staggered back out into the morning sunshine, this is what we saw:
Why, yes, that IS a stroller with ice-cold metal bottles of Bud Light in the cup holders, at ten-thirty in the morning! Caroline and I inhaled sharply before whispering reverently: ".... these people are our heroes..." I thought I would be all sneaky and snap a surreptitious photo with my phone but was totally busted in the act by the stroller owner. Oddly enough - maybe because she was two beers down before it was even lunchtime - she was cool with it. I didn't exactly tell her I would be posting the photo on a blog... but whatevs.
I've only been to SeaWorld a few times, but part of its mystique is that, until recently, SeaWorld was a valued member of the Anheuser-Busch corporate family! Yay, beer! It made for some weird juxtapositions: beluga whales and Clydesdales... waffle cones and margaritas... but I decided I was totally on board with an amusement park that sold ice-cold Anheuser-Busch products at *every gift shop*. What a great idea!
So I'm glad they have a new owner and all, and they're building a new dolphin show, and now they'll have dough for 'improvements' but I gotta say one thing: ohmigod totally keep the beer.
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