Monday, August 18, 2014

Life of the Wild

Up early this morning..figure that.

The wellness challenge at work is about sleep this month and I am doomed to fail even on vacation. We are supposed to get 7 hours a night and that never happens for me! I think I went to bed about 1AM and I was up at 6AM like it was nothing.  Better morning response than when I'm at home and need to go to work! I've already had my breakfast and sat on the patio watching the wildlife.

Every year we come here there is some wildlife that is the one we see more than others... one year it was crabs walking across the streets, one year it was love bugs, another it was the blue jellyfish...always something.

This year it's DOLPHINS!!!!! I'm so excited! There were about 10 of them out this morning and yesterday afternoon we saw two over on the river side by the park. They are just out there playing...

So of course thoughts run through my head...

  • I guess dolphins don't sleep? I guess no fish do. 
  • I've been sleep all night - lazy human - and they've been swimming
  • What makes the morning the best time for them to have fun?
  • Will this be a pattern I'll see all week? 
It's just so cool...I can'd wait for R to get some really good pictures with his good camera. But that might be tomorrow because he's a lazy human and hasn't even stirred yet!

P.S. Dragonflies are the other - less exciting - prominent wildlife right now. So far they are cool too...they don't bother me, so they can stay. 

The Games We Play....

First full day in Indialantic and I was determined to do one thing...level up! It worked! I am now level 6 in Ingress and I'll have to do everything I've already done again to get a level 7! Ugh...I saw someone posted on the COMM that they were "over level 7" and I think I already am and I haven't even gotten there yet.

We had already been shopping yesterday, so there was truly nothing to do but work on our game. We went out about 12PM and stayed out until almost 3PM. Then we came back, had lunch and made a new plan to make several control fields in 3 areas. The plans didn't always work out, but we got good points and covered the city in blue!

It's crazy that while we were on one side of town making new fields, someone was back where we'd just been blowing the previous ones up.

Don't know why I think this is so much fun...but it is! I know that TheNewGirl probably thinks I'm crazy, lol...that's more than likely true.

Ingress Fields
The red dots show our fields! 

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Puppies and Railroad Ties

Se we are off to FL again...now this is what I call vacation. Getting into full vacation mode by already being unable to complete sentences in conversation!

It took me a bit longer to get to Lexington than normal. Since I had to run through Versailles to hack and claim a few portals. I didn't leave home til almost 5 there was traffic after Frankfort and that led me to  turn around and go through Versailles. I got to the house about 8. 

The dogs were all happy to see me. Mabel was her calm "excited but I'm not going to lick you" self. Wiley was the young apprehensive puppy that he is but that Felix! He barked and talked to me and even managed to get tangled up in the folds of my sundress. He is a character for sure.

It is 3am and we just had a bit of a run in with what might have been a railroad tie. R is driving and we ran over something that was all the way across the road. Not sure what it was but he said it looked like it would do major damage - I was looking down at the phone and never even saw it! - so we pulled off the road and into a lit parking lot to check it out. We heard a strange noise as we slowed down but didn't see anything or hear anything in the parking lot. We got back on the road and we started to hear a small whirring sound but nothing about the car wasn't working. 

We press on.....