Miami More

So I am gonna combine a couple of days into one post cos I was extremely lazy.

Thursday:

We got up early to drive Ben to Fort Lauderdale airport. But that didn't really extend the day at all because when Blaine and I got back we went back to bed, it was 7am when we got back though. It was awful weather and the makings of a hurricane so was really windy and rainy. I used this as an excuse to sit around the house and chill out with Bear. We did go for a run though and when I was halfway through the run it pissed down. Serious rain. I didn't mind but Bear seemed a bit put out by it. I don't think she like the pace of her "walk" either. I think she might be more used to strolling. We did race the last 150m of the run though and I think if I didn't have a rope attached to her neck she might have beaten me.

After Blaine finished work we went for a cruise around town. It was crazy windy and there were a couple of trees on the highway. On the way home we picked up a massive tasty pizza (from an unlikely looking place, I think it was a gas station) and sat down for a beer and a movie. We watched a movie called "Captain Ron" which I can imagine is a bit of a cult classic in the States. It stars Kurt Russel as a bumbling captain of a shitty yacht and I don't know how he did another movie with the stigma of "Captain Ron" on him.

On Friday I was equally as lazy. It was still pretty crappy weather so I used that as an excuse to watch a couple of episodes of the Walking Dead. I also did a bit of research as to what I was going to do in LA. Didn't help though, still not sure.

In the afternoon we drove out to Blaines parents farm. It was fish feeding time and they have some karpy type fish. This would normally be pretty uneventful but there was lots and they were big/wacky looking and you could pat them. A bit weird. Their place is on a very nice section of land out of the city a bit and features really nice plants and manmade rivers, pools and waterfalls. After the fish were full we went to the Everglades to go gator hunting. Apparently the place is normally overrun with them but I was beginning to think that the Miami Alligators were about as common as snakes in Australia. Some story about a high water table meaning they were out further in the everglades where we couldn't walk. We wandered around for about an hour and everyone except me was pretty surprised we didn't see any wildlife. Then when we were just about back at the car we found this guy:

He was about 2m long and sitting in a side creek that ran under a wee bridge we were walking over. It was pretty dark by now so when Bob and I found him we got a bit of a fright because he was lying about 2 feet (when in Rome) under out feet. We also found this wee guy:

Who is an "Everglades Toad" top man. For dinner we went to a mexican place. The food was really great and I ate way to much. Possibly because I finished up everyone elses plates.