East Meets Jess: Unexpected Scare

I read about this thing called the Wonderfish Spa in Hong Kong as a cool thing to do b/c you can't do it anywhere else. It's basically described as a spa pool where you put your feel in the water and have all these fishies swim around you in this relaxing in environment. So we all signed up to do this one night after I got out from work.

Since I had been going out every night with the girls since their arrival, they offered me a night off and I took it. I really wanted to try the fish spa but I knew I needed a night to just relax so they went without me. When they got back, they told me only Karin tried the spa. Apparently, the fish were really scary. It's not like 10 little fishies swimming around, but actually hundreds of little black fish swimming around the pull just waiting for you to dunk your feet in. Basically they eat away at the dead skin on your feet and that's their food. Both girls were terrified when they saw the fish. They started out by just putting their hand in to see how it felt and although it didn't hurt at all, the fact that there were hundreds of little black fish waiting to attack was too much for Monica to bear so she opted out. Karin decided to go through with it, but said she couldn't look at her feet the entire time. She said it felt like the jet stream of a strong jacuzzi on your feet, but you could see the fish swimming over to her before she even put her foot in. They knew dinner was coming and since Monica didn't do it, all the fish from the pool were eating away at Karin's feet. They laughed about it afterwards, but Karin said she was tense the whole time. Not once did she relax her feet in the pool and not once could she look down. Monica said when Karin brought her feet back up, she saw fish still hanging on to the bottom of Karin's heels.

Scary! Here are some photos from their unexpected scare.


First you get the feet clean


Then you get the fish pool ready - there are literally hundreds of swarming little fish in this pool

Here goes the feet!

Karin said she had twice as many fish eating at her feet than usual b/c Monica backed out at the last minute. She also said it felt like a jet stream from a jacuzzi on her feet but when she looked down, she would squirm and squeal.