Today is Sea Monkey Day!

Aren't you happy?  For $1.25 plus postage and handling (back in the day) you could have this:

This is FANTASTIC!! 

How could anything be better than this?  So you begged and borrowed and suffered the jaded opinions of your parents until you had enough money to get these cute (but slightly) creepy little buggers in your house.  With unbearable anticipation you awaited their arrival.

And then they came.  

Well, the kit to start your menagerie came.

After your initial disappointment you re-filled your heart with hope and dumped the powdered peoples into their tiny plastic pool and waited.  

And waited.

And waited.

And, eventually you were rewarded with this:

NOT SO FANTASTIC!

Of course, I'm only guessing.  My Sea Monkeys looked like this:

It had a FANTASTIC smell!!!

Does anybody mind if I take time on Sea Monkey day to be bitter?