Navy’s class had a whale watching field trip…and since I have never been, I was stoked to chaperone.
We were lucky to catch a grey whale. That’s kind of fun! But the trip became a bust when I was talking to the captain about the rumored blue whales. He told me we were on our way to see one just a few miles south when they found this Gray. I asked if we had any possibility to keep going and see the blue whale (which less than 1% of the population will ever see), and he headed up to head south when I watched a mother go up and say, “On behalf of the teachers, we need to turn around and go back because there are too many sick people.” I was really bummed, but didn’t want to contest the teachers. But then I found out that the stinking mom was speaking on their “behalf”. When everyone heard about this (including two teachers who were ralphing)…everyone was so ticked off because we all wanted to see a blue whale. Because of this over-zealous mother, we got back to shore an hour early, had to wait an hour for the buses, and missed the blue whales.
THE WORST PART…I was last to get off the boat, and looked at the Captain and said…”how lame is that mom”! He replied with, “yeah…and the other boats told us they happened upon the blue only two football fields away from us.”
At least we saw a gray??!!
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