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Aug. 21st, 2007 08:24 amFunny is spilling milk while attempting to give Dusky a treat, and watching her carefully pick paws around the spilled milk so she could lap only the stuff on the plate. XD
Yes, I am home. Home and exhausted. And exhausted.
On the other hand, I saw a cavern! It was a tiny one, because this is Florida and our caves are not so much caves as fail of the 'awww, crap. sinkhole!' variety. Or, you know, piddly little pockets in the limestone which will eventually cause this entire state to dissolve into the ocean! :o /drama.
It was an incredibly long drive, of course. The three and half hours on the Mapquest directions turned out more like four and a half with traffic and stops so I didn't wreck myself while tired. Typically, at the very end I started to panic. 'Okay, I'm here! I just passed my hotel, even! ...where are the caverns, ahhh I'm lost mere miles from my destination and the directions fail because they say left and the local sign says right! ...screw the directions, then...' I did get a little turned around, really. It was only long experience in turning myself around while lost that allowed me to wind back up on the right road.
But the cavern was gorgeous. It isn't a very big one? But beautiful and very happy-making for someone who's never been in one before. Mostly I was staring around and thinking of all the stories I've read or the games I've played that involved caves. (Also taking disposable camera pictures. I miss my digital camera!) Two in particular that dominated my thoughts : Samurai Troopers and Seiji's caves, and how much bigger they were. Probably because they were a naturally open cave system, where ours were forcibly hollowed out after a park worker was surveying the land during the Great Depression, and fell into them. >.> Whereupon it was decided that they were darn cool, and should be hollowed out so less athletic people could come and see! (This was one of the many, many job-providing projects going on at the time courtesy of President Roosevelt.)
There is Depression era pottery ( a collector's item now) embedded in the stone near several of the lights, where it was placed to spread the old lighting system and make it more effective.
The other story is the Coldfire trilogy,
Then I spent a couple of hours wandering around on the trails, seeing interesting things like giant black & yellow spiders - like the ones I used to be scared of when I was little. Only we never see them here anymore. I watched one crawling around repairing her web! I waited to see if the nearby butterfly was going to happen into her web, but no luck. For me, I imagine the butterfly's quite lucky. ;p
Then there was a turtle with a shell pattern I've never seen before, and a rather large blue and yellow lizard that I've only seen in tiny variety before.
Bought some stones, too. Can't go to a cavern park and not get souvenir rocks, right? :P They're pretty anyway.
Finally dragged myself off to the hotel for a nice long bath and starting to read a new book - The Alchemyst by Michael Scott. Is good so far?
To exhausted to think straight now. Got woken up at the hotel by Dad calling to say the pipes are busted again, so apparently no water. x.x Haven't tested this yet. But he'll be by this afternoon.
*slides off chair to sleep on floor under computer*
Yes, I am home. Home and exhausted. And exhausted.
On the other hand, I saw a cavern! It was a tiny one, because this is Florida and our caves are not so much caves as fail of the 'awww, crap. sinkhole!' variety. Or, you know, piddly little pockets in the limestone which will eventually cause this entire state to dissolve into the ocean! :o /drama.
It was an incredibly long drive, of course. The three and half hours on the Mapquest directions turned out more like four and a half with traffic and stops so I didn't wreck myself while tired. Typically, at the very end I started to panic. 'Okay, I'm here! I just passed my hotel, even! ...where are the caverns, ahhh I'm lost mere miles from my destination and the directions fail because they say left and the local sign says right! ...screw the directions, then...' I did get a little turned around, really. It was only long experience in turning myself around while lost that allowed me to wind back up on the right road.
But the cavern was gorgeous. It isn't a very big one? But beautiful and very happy-making for someone who's never been in one before. Mostly I was staring around and thinking of all the stories I've read or the games I've played that involved caves. (Also taking disposable camera pictures. I miss my digital camera!) Two in particular that dominated my thoughts : Samurai Troopers and Seiji's caves, and how much bigger they were. Probably because they were a naturally open cave system, where ours were forcibly hollowed out after a park worker was surveying the land during the Great Depression, and fell into them. >.> Whereupon it was decided that they were darn cool, and should be hollowed out so less athletic people could come and see! (This was one of the many, many job-providing projects going on at the time courtesy of President Roosevelt.)
There is Depression era pottery ( a collector's item now) embedded in the stone near several of the lights, where it was placed to spread the old lighting system and make it more effective.
The other story is the Coldfire trilogy,
( spoilery it is )
Then I spent a couple of hours wandering around on the trails, seeing interesting things like giant black & yellow spiders - like the ones I used to be scared of when I was little. Only we never see them here anymore. I watched one crawling around repairing her web! I waited to see if the nearby butterfly was going to happen into her web, but no luck. For me, I imagine the butterfly's quite lucky. ;p
Then there was a turtle with a shell pattern I've never seen before, and a rather large blue and yellow lizard that I've only seen in tiny variety before.
Bought some stones, too. Can't go to a cavern park and not get souvenir rocks, right? :P They're pretty anyway.
Finally dragged myself off to the hotel for a nice long bath and starting to read a new book - The Alchemyst by Michael Scott. Is good so far?
To exhausted to think straight now. Got woken up at the hotel by Dad calling to say the pipes are busted again, so apparently no water. x.x Haven't tested this yet. But he'll be by this afternoon.
*slides off chair to sleep on floor under computer*