Saturday, July 12, 2008

Fish Spa

So, 2 days ago my friend Regine (I have two friends, Kim and Regine, who live in Malaysia that I met while studying abroad in Australia) told us that we were going to have a fun surprise activity that involved fish - the only clues we were given were that the fish were going to be happy and we weren't going to be eating them. We had NO IDEA what was in store for us...

On Saturday afternoon we met Kim and Regine at the mall (duh, this is Asia after all) and went upstairs to the Fish Spa. Yup, that's right, a spa of fish. For 30 minutes, small (and not so small) fish nibbled at our feet. Turns out, doctor fish (yea, thats what they are called), enjoy eating human skin and eat off the dead skin on your feet. Never in my life have I experienced something so bizarre.

The whole time I could only think of Jackie's infamous words when we went on Spring Break Senior Year of college when, after entering the water to go snorkeling, she said: "Is now a good time to remember I am afraid of fish?!?"

3 comments:

Mom S said...

I prefer the fish idea to the usual dust mites actually!

Suburban Sweetheart said...

Oh God. Is this for real? This is mildly terrifying... and sort of awesome.

Debra said...

yes it is for real!! and i know that most of you RACsters are opposed (Daph's been filling me in) and I just have to say, you are totally missing out :)