Lets try this again, shall we?

Ahhh, much better!! Blog.com is the worst! Just letting you know so if you ever decide to blog you don't go there and get all frustrated and angry and feel like blogging might not be worth it. Blogging is so worth it. Every time. No fail. I recommend blogger.com for all your blogging needs. :) The super cool thing about this new blog is that a.) it doesn't suck to use keeping me happy and fullfilled and b.) my Flickr link is now to the right side of the blog for your viewing enjoyment. YAY! So easy, so worth it.

All right then, I'm in FL. I drove straight from GA to this tropical wonderland and I am psyched I did. I got here Thursday night. Since today was Father's Day I thought it appropriate that I see my father so this was perfect timing over all. After visiting and eating dinner I went for a walk on the beach with the boys. Running later in the evening is better as it is hot as hell here during the day light hours. This walk on the beach was traumatic as I lost Jim for a little while. He was there and then he wasn't. Needless to say I was running back and forth on the beach screaming his name in the most hysterical manner. He was located up by where we had begun, hanging out, looking lost with a fisherman. The nice man went into Jim's wallet and called my phone. Well, I left my phone in the truck of course so while I was running and screaming (so much so that people came onto their balconies to see what all the hooplah was) he was calmly calling my phone to let me know where my dog was. Excellent. My largest mistake was not bringing the phone. The second mistake was not putting on the boys blinker lights. F. Lesson learned. I think Jim was distracted by one of the many stray cats he was hunting in the bushes along the fencing and just went to far out. It was THE WORST moment of my life. He never does that. Okay, he used to never do that. Anyway, the point of this story is that I was running about while my head and mouth kept saying, "I cannot lose my dog! I must not lose Jimmy! Please don't have gone to the road!" and other negative frantic things like that. Then I remembered The Secret! I changed how I was thinking and instead of saying what I didn't want, I started saying what I DID want. Shortly after that he was found. This shit seriously works. And if you're not reading the book, you are missing out BIG TIME. Just saying. If you are at all interested, you can order it here.

Okay, back to this tropical wonderland. There are obviously palm trees everywhere and often during the day you'll watch parrots fly by while they yell their nasty parrot noises. They aren't so offensive when they are wild. In fact they are downright beautiful! There are lizards everywhere for Jim to chase and there is a cat that sits under the truck all night that Charlie wants as a new best friend *so badly* so he circles the truck all night trying to not be afraid and trying to look friendly. The cat is so not buying this crap.

There is an orchid nursery that I want to see because I am a huge orchid fan (as you can obviously tell by my visit to the GA botanical garden). Also, there is the Coral Castle. A man that was only 100 pounds and just over 5' built it. Then he tore it down and moved it or something. Regardless, it sounds rad. If you don't know what I am talking about, you can find out here. Then there is also a Bonsai Garden that looks really neat. I am so into teeny tiny trees. Then there is the fruit and spice park which looks interesting. It is a botanical garden that grows over 500 varieties of fruits, nuts, spices and more. I'll tell you how they are. One of the places I have always wanted to see is the FL Keys. I'm going. Part of it is a seven mile bridge which sounds thrilling. There are also little tiny key deer that sound super cute. We are not allowed to hunt them so the boys will have to wait in the car if I find a chance to stalk and snap pictures. Then there is alligator alley. They are not allowed to hunt us so we are going to wait in the car until a decent picture is had from inside the safety zone.

So there you have it. I have decided the first day anywhere we are going to stay and see the sights at will be our getting acclimated day. This way the boys can see everything is in fact okay and I can unwind from driving 900 miles in one day. There are soon to be pictures of the utopia that is surrounding me. I would stay somewhere like this for the weather. But the people. Oh, the people... They are unbearably slow at EVERYTHING and they are also quite angry. Since I am searching for something upbeat, this isn't for me. There are many cool things about FL when you ignore the people. It's the rainy season so there are massive thunder storms. They roll in out of nowhere and slam their way through in minutes. The lightening is awesome. One minute it's sunny and beautiful, the next it's ominous and loud, then the next it's sunny and beautiful again. So cool. If you are in a place that has rain you can literally drive down the street to better weather. Kick ass.

That's it for now. Talk to you soon.