So long and thanks for all the fish

I was at some sort of Sea World type of place with my family and a few friends and we had to cross this rickety, wooden bridge to get to the next area of the park, but an absolutely ginormous Orca kept leaping over the middle the bridge and we were all nervous to cross the bridge. Finally someone who worked at the park came up to us and told us that it was perfectly safe to cross the bridge because the whale was trained to not land on the bridge or interact with humans. So we started to cross and of course the whale landed on the bridge right in front of me but somehow it didn't break the bridge, and I reached out and petted it. It seemed to like me petting it - it kind acted like my cats do when I pet their sides and bellies - and then it let us pass without any more issues.

Suddenly, I was at this huge banquet hall that was part of a basketball arena and I was looking for four extra tickets to the game because I'd promised a former boss, DOD, that I would get tickets for him and his family since he was so monumental in terms of starting me on my career path. But somehow I'd forgotten that I'd already promised the four tickets that I get as a member of the staff to myself and my immediate family. I was scrambling around last minute trying to find tickets but none of my coworkers had four extra tickets that they weren't using - they had one two or three tickets, but no one had four tickets together. As I was running around the banquet hall asking people if they had extra tickets, I noticed that there were sharks swimming around underneath us - yes, there was a see-through floor and we were walking on top of an aquarium. Finally I found four tickets and they were better seats than I'd gotten for me and my family so I thought about switching them, but I'd already given the envelope of tickets for my family to Will Call and although I could have switched them, it would have been a big production. Finally, I decided to give DOD the better tickets and just not tell my family that I'd gotten him tickets so that they wouldn't be upset that his seats were better than ours.

The last part of the dream was set in Australia - no idea how I got there - but I was there with some friends I guess but I was going to go on a hiking tour and none of my friends wanted to go so it was just me and the tour guide, who happened to be absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't stop staring at his mouth as he was talking to me about the tour and finally he stopped talking and so I looked up and into his eyes and he said "Can you please stop staring at my mouth?" He didn't say it rudely, he said it as tactfully as possible, but I still was very embarrassed and I went running away into a nearby bar - it was the middle of the day, mind you - and there in the middle of the bar was FL-J. I started to freak out because of all people to be there, I was NOT expecting him or his brother (not that I've ever met his brother in real life, but apparently that was his brother there in my dream) to be in Australia, in THIS bar. Anyway, he saw me and starting to walk towards me with a smile on his face and I tried to look at him as if I didn't recognize him, which obviously didn't work in the slightest, so when he started to say hello I brushed past him to go find my friends. I found them and had some drinks then decided to go to the bathroom, which was on the other end of the bar, and in doing so I ran into FL-J again only this time he was with my tour guide, apparently they were good friends! So I was doubly embarrassed because I thought that the uber-hot tour guide was going to tell FL-J what had happened while he and I were talking and I wanted to ignore the whole thing! So I finally reached the bathroom, I took care of my business, but I started to hyperventilate because I was really stressed about the situation. When I got myself under control, I checked my make-up and my hair, decided I was looking pretty dang fine (in my jean skirt, t-shirt and long hair that was somewhat curly... exactly what I was wearing when I went to talk to him after we'd broken up my freshman year of college except that in my dream I had a wicked tan), and steeled myself for the big scary bar scene... I opened the door and there was FL-J, waiting for me. I tried to walk the other way without saying anything to him but he grabbed my arm as I was trying to walk past him and he spun me around and pulled me into a hug. He said, "It's so good to see you" softly into my ear and I started to cry as I pulled myself out of his embrace. I looked at him and tried to find the words to tell him how NOT good it was to see him, how much he had hurt me in the past and how I was nowhere near ready to see him and talk to him even after all this time, but instead I just started to cry harder and as his smile turned to an expression of confusion, I walked away. I found my friends again, we were standing at one of those high, round tables, we all had some more drinks, and when FL-J and the tour guide walked by again, I didn't look at him although I could feel him looking at me, again with confusion, as he walked past our table and out onto the outdoor patio at the back of the bar. I turned back to my friends and overcompensated with a really loud laugh at something one of them had said that was funny but not that funny and as my fake laughter died down, I woke up.