A Blogger's Tale

Hi Everyone!

Wow - this past weekend went really fast.

We actually started the weekend early, since we had Lisha and Chad over to the house on Thursday to watch the stupid Steeler game. It was fun having them there, and a great distraction from the pummeling the Ravens were giving us.

On Friday, we were out walking the dogs and were treated to another rainbow. (God loves Florida.)

I think the pot of gold was on the roof of our house. :-)

On Saturday, we took it easy for most of the day, and then decided to head to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium since we had never been there.

In case you don't know, this is the site of the popular movie, "Dolphin Tale" about Winter, a dolphin who was fitted with a prosthetic tale. The movie, and its sequel "Dolphin Tale II" (in which a rescued baby dolphin named Hope becomes Winter's friend), just hit theaters last week,  and stars Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd, and Morgan Freeman.

So forgive me for ruining this adorable story by mentioning that the Clearwater Marine Aquarium is a shit hole.

We paid $43 admission to get in (!!), and the place literally has about 10 animals. Two dolphins, two pelicans, and 4 sea turtles who were missing legs and were consequently bobbing around upside down. (Honestly, the turtles seemed very sad. I'm not sure that rescuing them was the right thing to do.)

Glenn wants to have the place audited. It was a dump.

But okay. The famous Winter and Hope were cute, and seemed relatively happy.

Oh, and here's a stingray in a dirty tank.

Woo. That's really about it.

Outside, they had a Hollywood-made houseboat which was the set for the home of Harry Connick Jr and his daughter in the movie.

Probably spent thousands of dollars making this look run down.

Sunday, we decided to go to Wall Springs Park in Palm Harbor. It has a natural spring that drew vacationers in the early to mid-1900s. It used to feed a swimming pool, but now flows into a pretty pond filled with frisky ducks and fish.

Baby duck!

There was a nice path throughout the park that took you from the spring to Boggy Bayou.

They had an artistic pavilion of sorts that was kind of interesting, as well as strange benches made of natural pieces of wood. We had some fun with those.

And here is a pretty plant - probably poisonous, but pretty.

It is still insanely hot here, and I've discovered that I really like taking an afternoon siesta, which is what I did as soon as we got home from this walk. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

So, sorry, not the greatest edition of the blog ever, but it'll do. I will leave you with a sunset from our front porch.

Love you!