Happy Easter

Yo.

No, really.  You are supposed to read that as Happy Easter, yo.

That's all I got.

Florida. It kicked my ass too.

 I'm beginning to think of Florida as my second home.  I mean, really my Mom, Dan, and Mickey Mouse live there. 

Sadly, I have not discovered a worm hole, learned to time travel or can afford to fly my family of 5 down there at the drop of a hat, or the drop of snow.  So, when the whole family went, we drove.  And we drove, and we drove some more.  We were real close to peeing in bottles in Ohio, but we found the inner strength to carry on to Kentucky and pee in their nicely appointed public rest rooms.

Pigs, after 1 million hours in the car

 When we finally made it to New Smyrna, the Pigs were very happy to get out of the car.  So happy in fact that they resurrected a road kill dog.

That is a dog.

 Of course we had to check out Pk and Dan's new homestead.  Many bets and much mocking was made.  This was mostly directed at the Ogre and his ability to navigate the tiny, steep, spiral staircase.

 He was fine.  Sadly, this mocking came back to bite me in the ass when we climbed up the St. Augustine Light House and I had a panic attack.  Really, you don't panic when you climb a super old, super tall lighthouse's, (that was randomly built by hobos) spiral stair case?  Ok, yeah, you tell me who is crazy.

Plus, it's haunted.

While in New Smyrna, we spent quality time with Pk.  Or, Nana Pk if you are a Pig.

We also spent considerable time at the beach.

Note the smart adults under the shade screen?  Yeah...See the red chair in the sun?

Notice the knitting?  I was in the sun. The sun got it's revenge.

When are we heading back to our second home?  December.  Eh, if it keeps snowing in Michigan, I'm looking into going again in June.

Seaworld. It's all dirty up in that joint.

Seaworld.  Yeah.  To get there we drove through a severe thunderstorm. No, really.  The local radio station went all BEEEPBEEPBEEP......The national weather service has issued a SEVERE THUNDERSTORM in the Orlando/Seaworld area.  60 mile an hour winds. Sucks to be you!

But it was totally worth it. Why?  Seaworld has a really good animal husbandry program.

The awesome thing is, you can totally watch it.  It's not gross, it's nature in action.  Like brownchicken-browncow action.  We saw Walruses and Beluga whales making sweet, sweet animal love.  OOOH, not like together. 

Seals & Seal lions...not exhibitionists

Separately.  Uh, independently of each other, but with each other of the same species.  WTF.  You know what I"m talking about.

The Pigs.  They didn't notice a thing.

The shows at Seaworld were almost as good as the animal exhibits.  The above is a photo of the set for the Dolphin Show "Believe." (Go ahead, make Donkey Show jokes.) The Ogre was all up in arms because the sound track to this theatrical dolphin event was very similar to Defying Gravity from Wicked.  Although I have to say, Wicked did not have a condor.  Flying Monkeys, yes. Condors, no.

So the real reason I took that photo was not especially becoming of my character.  What I really wanted was a photo of a dude's tattoo.  No, it was not just a tattoo.  It was a spectacular display of one man's faith.  Faith that a mean girl from Michigan wouldn't stalk him and try to get photos of his arms.  Yes, his homage to Jesus took not one, but two arms.

On the left arm he had the Crucifixion.  

From Checkoutmyink.com Not the guy I was stalking

On the right, Jesus' whole head!  It was like a tattoo stigmata miracle!!

I mean it's not a classic graveyard Grim Reaper scene, but it's Seaworld, not King's Island.  You know, classy. 

Home!

We had so many amazing adventures this week.  We left for Florida last Saturday. After what felt like our 5th hour in Ohio, I said "OMGH (ohmygeorgeharrison) We are still in ruddy Ohio!!"

At this Pig 1 said "Ugh, Ohio is the second worst state that sounds like Iowa!"

Falling for the set up, I asked, "what's the worst?"

"Iowa."

The highlights-
Asheville, NC-Biscuits and Sweet tea!
Swimming at the Smyrna Inlet-with Dolphins!!
Seaworld...Mime.  Pig 1's wet shoes
Kennedy Space Center-We saw the Endeavor on the launch pad!
St Augustine
Charlotte, North Carolina-BBQ and Tornado

on the road

Driving to FL with the Ogre and the Pigs. PK called and asked what was on the road. I told her....
A giant dog sticking its head out of sun roof, wind turbine parts, and a dead goose.

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Knitting in the Sand

We're heading to Florida again soon.  Last time I went alone and there was an ice storm.  I was out living it up,

and the Pigs, well, here's a portion of the email I got from the Ogre when the power was out.

School shut down today
Power out since one am
Frost on my pumpkin

The Ocean water was warmer than my house

Quote from Point Break:  "I'm so cold."  "That's because all of the blood is running out of your body.  You're going to be dead, soon."

Haha!!  Even the Ogre quotes from my beloved Point Break!

In the first photo I was knitting a green lump.  That green lump turned into a one armed sweater while in Florida.  Since it's for a soon to arrive Baby Church, I thought that finishing that second arm was really, the way to go.  I don't know how it's taken 2 months to knit one arm, but, I'm almost there.

 

I'd like to point out that Pk and Dan moved there, I'm not that partial to sunshine.  Plus, they have zombies year round down there.  I really don't like taking all these working vacations.

I know if I check behind my chair

Look! An Ogre in my chair!

I'll be sure to find some half finished project to work on.  But it's so much more fun to start than to finish.