Post by The Chupster on Sept 13, 2009 0:55:45 GMT -5
So this weekend we hit up Daytona Beach, driving into what amounted to an unholy shitstorm Friday night. Today, however, was much more awesome; it was overcast all day, but still great weather for pool swimmin' and mini golf.
But it was one weird-ass day.
So for lunch we decide on hot dogs and hit up a local hot dog stand that's been voted best dogs in the city multiple times over. It's just a little hot dog/ice cream stand, and we park in the lil parking lot behind the joint and head toward the front to order. There's a couple of people there, and we notice a squirrel, which is apparently fucking fearless when it comes to people- it hops up on the next picnic table over and runs up to them on a railing next to them.
We order our stuff and sure enough, the chili cheese dogs were the shit. I mean, just fucking awesome. But the whole time we're there- even when we're ORDERING- the damn thing hangs around. It's lookin' around the corner at us, scrounging in the garbage cans, LAYING on a nearby bench- I mean, I'd never seen anything like it, especially this laying around thing it kept doing. So yeah, we fed it some Doritos. (Apparently it was picky; it didn't care for Cheetos.) And later some pieces of hot dog bun.
Then we hit up mini golf at this joint that has baby gators. And I mean a LOT of them! So we get our picture taken with one of them (and he was PISSED, hissing at Tamara the whole time, LOL), do the mini golf thing (which ate up like 2 and a half hours) and then pay to feed the alligators. Basically, they give you sliced up hot dogs and you put them on these lil clips on some fishing pole-type things and then dangle 'em over. That was great fun for everyone (I didn't do it but it was quite a show), and one gator that was trying his hardest to get this one piece actually slipped and fell in the water, which was just hilarious. Luckily, I got it on tape.
There were also these little anole-type lizards, and they were EVERYWHERE. You couldn't take a step without seeing like 5 of them running for cover. We actually hit a couple with our golf balls, sending them running.
We took a lil family nap, woke up and headed out for dinner at this lil dockside restaurant thing, which was cool- the food was decent and plentiful, which was awesome, though a tad overpriced. The fries were wicked though.
So we're wrapping up and the waitress sees that Ben didn't eat the bun from his hamburger (he rarely does), and we had a shitload of fries left, and she's like, "oh, you can go feed the fish." So Tamara and Ben run off to do that while I'm paying the check, and I'm thinking, okay, maybe there's a couple of goldfish, or maybe they have a tank with some old fish or something. FUCK no. Off the back of the restaurant is the dock, and off the dock, there is the BIGGEST... DAMNEDEST... SWARM of fucking catfish I've ever seen! I mean they are literally swarming at the surface, poking their faces up looking for food, and every time Ben or Tamara threw something in, they went APESHIT. It was beyond fucking crazy, and one of the strangest, coolest damn things I've ever seen! I tried to get that on tape too, but considering that it was pitch black out, it pretty much just looks like a dark moving mess. Heh.
And then on top of it all, we went out later and Tamara and Ben had to have one of those tiny little turtles they sell everywhere, so now we have a turtle.
So without any planning, we ended up feeding three different fucked up animals and ended up with a new pet to haul home with us. Great weekend vacation, even with the rain, and man, that turtle's on crack- he just keeps going and going and going like he thinks that somehow, somewhere, there's an exit out of his little cage, and by God, he's gonna find it, LOL.
Anyway, I'll edit in pics and vid links a lil later, once I get a chance to get 'em off the cameras. Especially the gator falling in the water, it's awesome, lol.
