On the day of The Sharks vs The Panthers game in Vegas I thought it would be amusing to visit the Shark Reef Aquarium at the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the morning of the match.It certainly didn't turn out to be a lucky omen for my team, but it was certainly worth the visit I thought.
I even got to see a live Komodo Dragon, which was something I didn't get to see at Australia Zoo the last time I was there, even though they were meant to be there somewhere - They even had live piranhas in Vegas probably as an incentive to square up your gambling debts?-)Of course, sharks can be just as motivating when it comes to paying up:-)Come to think about it, whatever happened to our old Sharkie mascot MC Hammerhead?-) This part of the hotel was a bit of a wreck I thought:-)I blame those sharks with the saws.I find watching sharks swim kind of relaxing, as long as there is a pane of glass between us that is.They even let you pat stingrays at the aquarium if you trusted your travel insurance to get you medical attention when you needed it over here ... which I didn't, but my son did. They certainly had some trippy fish floating around the hotel. They even had some Lionfish floating around, which being a Brisbane Lions AFL member I liked.At least at the end of the day I had some happy shark memories from my Vegas trip ... barring the scoreline:-(
It looked good from the outside though and from the wheel.
It even did an impersonation of the planet Jupiter for us as we rode the wheel higher.
