Frog Legs at the Bayou

 

Awriight. 

[Colloquial greeting from the Yuke.] [Yuke = UK for those who aren't hip and with it.]

Whilst on the subject. In America The Great, if you have a foreign accent you're automatically smarter slash cooler. Can someone please tell me that we have a ceteris paribus agreement with the rest of the world? [Ceteris paribus essentially means equal in Latin. Now you know a term in Latin. So your automatically awesome. And I hope a Latin-speaking person would feel cool when they learn how to say something in American English.] [And if you find a Latin-speaking person let me know and let me use your time machine.] Moving on.

I can never get enough of Florida. Especially Lakewood Ranch. Everything is about family, friends and community. This place is filled with amazing parks after parks, literal jungles, playgrounds, pools, soccer fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, lush foliage [such a gross word. couldn't think of another.], and, families. Case in point; just went with the Balles to a huge park that I had never even seen before, and it was five minutes from home! There was so much to do. We were there for like two hours, IN ONE AREA. Which is awesome because obbbbviously we will just have to go multiple times to get the full experience :]. We explored one of the trails and I literally had to convince myself that we weren't in Bangkok. We found this hidden yet ginormous bird castle. The most insane/tropical birds I have ever seen.     

                               We had no idea what they were! They were making the strangest noises. We heard a monkey. No joke. There were like a brillion [combined trillion and billion for cool points] lizards covering the entire trail. Some of them didn't have tails... maybe it was like a fashion statement or something. We found a HUGE turtle! He was very sassy. Dawson immediately fell in love with him and would not stop following him into the jungle! [When I say jungle, I seriously mean jungle.] We got to go on these hidden rope swings; it was awesome. Felt like Mowgli the entire time.

Disneyland's Blue Bayou, but for real.

+Brad aka Dad came to visit last night! +Zane and I have calculated that, although we live on the other end of the planet [humor me], we have had six visits from family in less than a year! Thank you, Howard Hughes. The three of us went out to dinner and had the ultimate Florida adventure. 

Makes a tasty chowder

The Linger Lodge. A restaurant. In an RV camp. On the bayou. Hidden behind the Spanish Moss and palm trees. The interior designer must have been a taxidermy hunter. The food was NUMMY. Especially the frog legs. Dad ordered the BEST alligator chowder, blackened alligator and fried green tomatoes. +Zane had a huge crab avocado salad and uh-may-zayng ribs. We all shared the River Bottom Pie! While we were eating, these hilarious old men were singing karaoke from the 50's. Zane and I just had to give in and share our [attempts at] singing with the world. Problem was: all songs were made before jogging was invented. We decided to go with a Sonny and Cher classic; I've Got You Babe. Luckily no one was in the room when we belted this golden number. We had so much fun there and will become the regulars. 

Well friends, my career has begun :]. I'm a Personal Trainer! +Malori is my first official client! I have another blog now; Pow! Exercising, sports, fitness, whaterr you guhn call it, has been my life. For my entire life. And will be for the rest of it. For the past couple of years, my interesting health situation has made me appreciate and delve deeper into food and fitness. This blog is interactive; you present a question, I offer a solution or advice. Nutrients, muscles, pains, programs/techniques, recipes, etc. [The kind of recipes where you already HAVE the ingredients. Hah seriously. Every "15 minute dinners," "easy recipes" website that I see should be renamed, "Dinners that are easy if you have all ingredients that no one ever has or has heard of." I'll have my first post on Pow! tomorrow :].

Cheerio.