Tornado Warning

These past few days we experienced some extreme weather and were even on Tornado Warnings for two days. (Yet for some reason I still had to go to work...what's the deal with that?)

A lot of trees came down, roads flooded and people lost power. I got to experience that first hand at my doctor's appointment which was conducted via flashlight.

I told Dani we were on Tornado Warning and she asked me if I know what to do if one hits, we both came up with the exact same answer (proving that we are definitely sisters):

1. Lay in the bath tub

2. Find your Rubie Red Slippers.

I should probably go look up the real answer.....

Eagle Scout saves Girl Scout Cookie Eater

Savannah, GA; birthday place of Julliet Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts, saw the true meaning of the scouting program this past weekend.
On a typical Saturday during Girl Scout Cookie season, young Girl Scouts can be found on the corner of Mrs Gordon Low's birthday place, selling their many flavors of delicious Girl Scout Cookies. As a young, handsome tourist couple strolled through the dreamy Savannah streets towards this corner they were not met with smiling young faces hoping to be the best seller this year but by a sea of worried eyes not knowing what to do.
Minutes before a local lady decided that having waited over a year for Girl Scout Cookie season she just had to have some Samoas. She pulled off the side of the road, leaving her car running with money in hand to quickly buy the much sought after cookies. In her desperation to taste the delicious coconut, she realized she had locked herself out of her car.
As the aforementioned young, handsome tourist couple approached, the wife quickly surmized the situation and pointed out to the now small crowd that her husband was an Eagle Scout and had his burglarizing badge. No time was wasted, a coat hanger was quickly placed into the young man's hands and he was ushered towards the running station wagon. Within less than 2 minutes the handsome hero had opened the door. The crowd was joyous. Several praises to the heavens and plenty of hugs were shared.
Without much further ado the lady grabbed her cookies and drove off with a gentle toot of the horn and a friendly wave, leaving the crowd to stand on thinking of the true meaning of the scouting program, and also wondering if their own cars were safe as the tourist hero had gotten into the car a little too quickly.

On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.

Challenge Accepted

When my mum told me she had booked her flight to Orlando she said she expected me there with bells and whistles on. And I just love a challenge. Ergo:

I knew keeping my dress would come in handy one day.

So Proud

Best score at Mini-Golf and touching an alligator. An all round high achieving day.

Calling All Visitors

Florida is literaelly perfect at the moment.

I don't understand why it is so hard to convince anyone to come visit me.

3,2,1 BLASTOFF

Yesterday around 10:30am I caught Shuttle fever. By 2pm Kevin and I had meet up to shove the bikes in my car (one of my more genius ideas, keep reading...) but before we could head off for the 4:50pm Lift Off at Titusville, we had to go pull a plug on a pool Kevin was working on. Which meant we didn't leave Orlando until 3pm.
After speaking with the News 13 Space Team they told us we could never make the normally 45 minute trip due to traffic. Since we aren't afraid of a challenge we decided to try it anyway.
By 4:25 we were on the outskirts of Titusville. We ditched the car and had 25 minutes to make it to the water front. The 5 mile trip should have been easy, had we not been on beach cruisers, riding next to traffic with heavy wind blowing against us and the pressure of making lift off!
We made it as close to the front as you could get with about 30 seconds before blast-off. If that isn't timing, than I don't know what is!

Riding back to the car on our bikes was where I literally became a genius! We passed everyone in their cars! So satisfying. We went to dinner at a local hotspot, and as we were finishing, we met a group of people who were literally stuck in their cars for 3 hours before getting to the restaurant. I told one lady about the bikes, and her mouth dropped. She proceeded to tell everyone how smart we were.







Mission Success!

4 Seasons in Florida?

Last night we experienced 4 seasons here in Florida. No not the weather, silly! It was Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons! We were pretty excited as we had just seen Jersey Boys over Christmas. And now we got to see the real thing.

As it turns out Frankie Valli is old.....really old. And the crowd was right up there with him. And therefore unbelievably boring! But don't worry we don't let other people's actions effect our own, so we still had a great time!

The best part for me was that Kevin knew every single word to every single song. I was pretty impressed especially as I find it hard to learn lyrics...correctly. (Seriously, listen to me sing any song, I always mess something up.)

I got two thumbs up and a "you go girl" from the couple in front of us for my extremely loud "cry----ayayay" in Big Girl's Don't Cry. So I feel pretty good about life.

In honour of Frankie and Valentine's Day I give you one of my favourite Frankie Valli songs: