Gators. I saw them.

There’s really no good reason for it, but I’ve kinda always wanted to see gators.  Something about these primitive fossil creatures fascinates me.

We have just finished our cruise and are in Fort Lauderdale for a day, so we head to Everglades National Park to check the gators out.  There’s this nice long path you can bike or walk that follows a long canal where you have pretty good chances of gator sighting.

As we head out on the path, my bud tries to trick me into the bag.  I’m not having it. I win.

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I mean, look at all this prime canal water teeming with gators!  I know they are there!

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And they were there.  Little gators, big gators, lots of gators.

After seeing two or three, my bud had enough and he made us get back to the car.

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I certainly wasn’t done gator-sighting yet so I just made him take us on a boat tour later on to see more gators.

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Check this bad-boy gator out.  I wonder how stealthy they are.

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That was pretty fun, checking out the gators.

Let’s play name the energy drinks

My best bear bud Nicholas and I have a tendency to stay up late.

For games.

For him to make money so I can play games.

For long road trips where I don’t get to game but I insist he keep driving so we can get home and I can play games all the sooner.

Anyway, Nicholas’ best human friend Drew wanted to test his bud’s knowledge of energy drinks, so we set up a blind taste test.

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I had faith.  He wasn’t going to let his best bear bud down.  Otherwise it’s a smack in the face from my paw!  The stakes were high.

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Best bear bud success!  Ok we can celebrate by making hot cocoa for me.

And now that he’s all wired up on energy drinks we can game all night!

Halloween at Medieval Times

For Halloween this year, Nicholas decided he’d be a little more like me.

He wore a tunic.

As for me, I already had a great outfit so I just went as Sumi Bearditore.  I mean like duh, with such a great outfit, what else would I go as?

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Collectively, we went to the Medieval Times in Kissimmee.

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That made a lot of sense because it wasn’t actually Halloween yet and we decided that was as a good a place as any to get all dressed up in costume because all the poor staff had no choice but to also parade around in costume too.

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Drew got us front row seats.

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So we got to cheer loudly for our knight, Yellow Knight.  In the Yellow Knight’s face.  GO YELLOW!!

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I liked that.

I liked it enough for some one on one photo action after the show.

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