When I was a little girl, my Aunt and Uncle lived in Natchez Mississippi. On one of our visits, I found Sea Monkeys at a local drugstore. My parents bought them for me and I LOVED them. I think I got my first Sea Monkeys in the third grade. I think I owned Sea Monkeys till I was in fifth grade. A friend came over to play one day(fifth grade) and knocked the Sea Monkeys off my dresser. I will never forget the day. I was SOOOO ANGRY at my friend. She did not mean to do it! It was just an accident. That day ended my love for owning Sea Monkeys.One day this week I took the girls to Wal-Mart with me. Of course our first stop was the toy department. I saw SEA MONKEYS. When I was a little girl, Walmart did not sell them. They were hard to find. The only place I ever saw them was at the Mississippi drugstore (I think it must have been Wal-Greens) and a toy store in Little Rock. I showed my girls the Sea-Monkey package and they were not too thrilled. Once Emily held the package a minute, she wanted them. I did not get them on that Walmart visit. That afternoon, I showed Emily the Sea-monkey website. She was begging me for them. She told my mother that she was getting them and my mother was less than thrilled.
Thursday night we all went to Walmart and got Emily and Sarah Kate some Sea-Monkeys. Emily told every person we saw in the store. She was and is soooooo excited!!!!!!!!!!!
What are they?
They are Brine shrimp. Tiny Shrimp.
Would I have been so excited when I was a little girl about having Brine shrimp? NO WAY! But, it is all about the packaging. Look at the little monkey coming out of that egg. It is just the mystery of the whole thing, the novelty of it. Kind of like a carnival or circus attraction. The packaging says, "THE AMAZING, LIVE.........INSTANT ZOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I always loved monkeys. It is all about the name and the packaging!!!!
On the first day, you add water to the container, Emily calls it a cage. You add the packet of water purifier and let it sit 24 hours. On the second day, you add the packet of tiny eggs. They really do hatch from the eggs in just a few minutes. They are tiny tiny, but we can see them swimming around. On the fifth day, we can begin feeding them. They come with a little packet of fish-like food.
Emily is sooooo excited, you would think we had a real pet monkey or a puppy. She is sooooo proud! She has named two of them already.......Diamond and Mary.I am sure, one of us will knock them off the counter and the girls will scream and cry. But, for now, that was $5 well spent at our house!
Ever have "the amazing. live Sea-Monkeys" when you were little? Have your children ever had them?
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BTW, Emily's Sea Monkey names totally crack me up!