Saturday, March 03, 2012

Mermaid Tales: Mug Shot

Quite a few of you asked and now you shall receive -- and most likely you will regret asking.

For anyone new to Straight From Hel, I used to be a mermaid. I swam for three years at a place called Aquarena Springs. If you’ve heard of the resort, then you know mermaids were secondary stars to Ralph the Swimming Pig. I occasionally tell tales from those days.

Today is not so much a tale as it is a show and tell.

 You asked for pictures. I found a couple. Most of you wanted one of me in my tail, but, alas, I haven’t found one. I did find one of me sitting on the lily pad picnicking, but it’s pretty blurry since it was, of course, me underwater. I did, however, find postcards with me in it. This postcard features five swimmers standing on the volcano. It’s difficult to tell, but the guy on top of the volcano is blowing the conch shell horn. Swimmers would also climb to that top position and dive into the water at the beginning of the show.

The volcano housed the two warming rooms (one for the guys and one for the girls). Between the two rooms was a hole cut in the volcano floor for swimmers to enter the water, sight unseen, and swim to the staging platform to await their cue to enter the show area. The warming rooms were kept very hot so swimmers could come out of the cold spring-fed waters and warm up quickly. I don’t remember ever being sick during my three years there, probably because of those warming rooms.

At water level, you’ll see two girls. Ronina is on the right and I’m standing on the left (I’m the taller one).

So, there you go. Me on the volcano.

15 comments:

  1. yippee! I'm in love with your mermaid tales! And you look a gorgeous thing!
    It is cold and snowy here and I wish I was in the warm room of the volcano.
    later lovey!

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  2. That's a great snapshot! Great memories :)

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  3. Thanks for sharing. Mermaid tales are always fun to hear.
    Ann

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  4. That's so cool! You were on a postcard - that meant you were famous!

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  5. Yes, I was famous, Alex. I was girl #2.

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  6. very cool and certainly unique. Thanks for sharing

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  7. Famous or not, those days have provided a lot of entertainment for us :) Thanks for sharing!

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  8. I pulled up the bigger picture - it still looks like you.

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  9. You are so sweet, Diane. Have you had your eyes checked lately?

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  10. Another mermaid tale. That's cool. You look like a very healthy mermaid in the photo >;)

    Cold As Heaven

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  11. This is how you met hubbo, right? Tell me he wasn't Ralph. Hahahaha.

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  12. Looks like you had a lot of fun there!

    Morgan Mandel
    http://morganmandel.blogspot.com

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  13. If you were Girl #2, I guess Ralph really brought home the bacon. Sorry, couldn't pass that up.

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