The Water-slide and the Alligator

Last night the dream was about a water slide. Not a water park, because there was only one slide. We were having a ward party there, with lots of ward members lined up on the stairs of the tower leading up to the slide. Several of us girls were in mermaid suits - by mermaid suits, I mean these things that you stepped into and pulled up and put your arms through, leaving you looking like you were wearing a long sleeved shirt and had a mermaid tail. We went down the slide in this. Throughout the dream I slowly took off more and more of it, until I was in just a tankini (perfectly normal wear for a water slide), which I kept tying tighter and tighter.

Later in the dream more people were there besides just ward members. I took a little black boy on the slide with me. (Don't be offended, I'm not racist, that's just the easiest way to describe it.) On one bend of the slide, there was an alligator, which I had seen before when I went down the slide, and I thought it was a real alligator, although it hadn't ever tried to bite me. This time, however, it did bite my hand, and follow us along down the slide, though it didn't bite me hard enough to draw blood. It wasn't until after we were at the bottom of the slide that I realized it was a fake alligator, part of the ride.