An intimidating and unforgettable experience at Cuba's National Aquarium

There are experiences in a person's life that he never thinks he will live and when he least expects it, it happens and he lives it the way circumstances and his personality allow him to live it. This is one of them, and I confess that it never crossed my mind that I would live such a situation.

It happens that we had a visit to the National Aquarium of Cuba and we were looking for ways to have fun and spend a different day. I had never been to this place, although, when I lived outside the capital, I heard a lot about this emblematic place and the many anecdotes told about it.

We arrived around 9 in the morning and in the program there were several activities, but the two stellar ones were the dance with the dolphins which I really like because I have had the opportunity to see some similar ones in other resorts in the country and these animals are very intelligent and the other stellar activity was related to the star animal of the aquarium, the Susy Seal.

I was far from imagining what would happen to me.
After touring the place we left for the Susy Seal show and, we didn't know about her because she was in her hiding place until the show started. When the presentation music was played and the entertainer of the place made the introductions of those who would work in the show, he asked for the collaboration of two volunteers. When many of my friends refused, they asked me to go and I went downstairs.

Several questions began to ask me, name, age, if I was married; among other things. What I didn't know was that the questions were related to what was to come later. Then Susy's teacher called her and she made her presence known, juggling, doing somersaults and everything her teacher asked her to do.

Then the announcer called Susy and started asking her if she knew me, if she thought I was funny and it was amazing how well the presenter and the seal got along. In one of the moments of the show, the song from the movie Titanic and the voice of Celine Dion were playing. The seal made flirtatious gestures and the host asked her what was wrong. She pretended to be talking in his ear and according to the announcer she wanted to kiss me, he asked her where and she said on the mouth.

I confess that I had never been in a similar situation. At that moment the least I could think of was my wife because the kiss was in no way an infidelity. What I was thinking about and could not get out of my mind was how to assume that kiss with an animal that I respect and to a certain degree fear, how to make the show look good and the public would not see my fear of the animal?

I confess that I never went through this experience.
Beyond the fear and discomfort I experienced at that moment, the truth is that I lived an intimidating and unforgettable experience.

*Note: The translator used was DeepL Translate.

Unfortunately, with Susy they only took one picture of me because they put the phone on recording and the other picture with Susy was because I took screenshots that did not look very good, but, for the author it is worth showing them*.