I keep forgetting to write about this. Back in October the salmon are swimming upstream around here, trying to get back to their birthplaces to spawn. In a nearby town there is an information center with a "fish ladder" with underwater viewing so that you can see the salmon as they climb the ladder and it is, probably obviously, right next to the river where you can also see them swimming up the stream...slapping into the water as they jump over and over again.
Well, this year it made quite an impression on Munchkin. It was cool to watch her watching the salmon. We had gone to the small zoo near us that day, earlier, and she said the salmon watching was even more fun!
Now she likes to pretend she's a "strong" salmon (as opposed to the weak, dead salmon we saw floating amongst the rocks at the edge of the stream!!), swimming up the fish ladder, when she finishes her bath. She "climbs," splashing like crazy, as I cheer her on (literally...I am making up cheers like that duo on the SNL re-runs and acting like a complete idiot, usually). This has been going on for weeks. Enter Gram this past weekend. Munchkin asked her to watch her bathtime. So...as usual, she pretends to be a salmon for a few minutes before she gets out of the tub. Gram--not understanding the whole routine and being a farmgirl from Maine, no less--pretends to cast a line and reel in the salmon! YIKES! The salmon freaked!!! So then Gram had to pretend that the salmon escaped. Phew...
Poor Gram...she had no idea that her granddaughter was such a little fish!
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