losing faith in humanity

surprise, surprise...once again I have failed at blogging. It has now been over 2 months. hopefully I can even recall enough about the last 2 months to make a blog post.

life overview (in no particular order):
*nikki and clay and the boys came to visit last weekend. We went to downtown disney, aquatica, seaworld, a vietnam memorial museum, celebrated the boys birthday, and sent mom and dad on a date to celebrate their anniversary at arabian nights!
*one of my favorite things about roscoe is that because rhett is an awesome husband and takes him on most of his walks, he always acts so excited to walk with me...like "hey mom, look what's been going on since the last time I took you outside!"
*we went airboating with the small group. SO FUN! you can enjoy pictures on my facebook. we saw lots of gators, and I saw my first ever in-the-wild bald eagle (2 actually!) and got to hold a 3 ft gator! I was in heaven.
*Rhett took me to the brevard zoo. also sooo fun. we did a rhino up-close experience where we got to brush them and pet them and give them belly rubs. we also fed giraffes, and took a kayaking tour of their africa section.
*we also went to aggie muster here in central florida. there were about 40 of us there and it was a potluck. really cool to get to meet some more of the other aggies around here.
*funny rhett quotes: while laying on roscoe... "it's a pillow pet!". and "I think we should have bed space divied out by size. I should get 68% of this bed!" and watching a commercial on flea medication after just discussing how it works "oh so that's how it works. a bunch of tiny green ninjas squirt out of the tube and attack the fleas."
*in the same day, "aggies" and "seaworld orlando" were both questions to answers on jeopardy.
*we have a new awesome restaurant called crispers that was introduced to us by the girls in our small group. delicious. we even ran into some of our friends one night when we just ate there. it makes it feel like home here when we can actually run into people that we know when we go places.
*we are officially leading the college group now. we are loving it! the kids are so great.
*I get to see my mommy and daddy and Emily this weekend! yahoo!!! Texas here I come.

work things:
*Rhett's sell for summer and buyback for spring both went really well. and they had a kickball game and ice cream social to celebrate!
*yesterday I celebrated one year working at seaworld. loving it!
*I was selected to be summer camp staff at SeaWorld! I am so psyched. I can't WAIT! training starts next week.
*survived my first sleepover! so awesome.
*I got to meet Julie Scardina. look her up. she's basically my hero.
*turtle trek grand opening has come and gone. turtle trek 1 monthaversary has come and gone. ask me if I like it?
*so excited that SeaWorld eliminated plastic bags from all their parks! I get so excited (and am sure to tell people how cool it is) whenever I see the new paper bags.
*I got to see klondike (polar bear) swim from underwater viewing for the first time!
*I got to see a harbor seal pup! by the time I got here last year, they were already weaned.
*junior (sea turtle) is target trained. which means he comes up to eat when they put his target pole in the water! crazy cool to watch.
*I got to touch an otter named Boris.
*I taught an awesome class of homeschool kids about the polar regions. best group of kids ever. all ages. all smart. man if that's not a reason to homeschool I don't know what is.
*I took a visually impaired girl around the park for about 10 minutes opening up all of our biofact bins so she could touch everything that we have about the animals (bones, teeth, etc.) it makes you appreciate just how much we take seeing for granted.
*I got to touch a skunk on my lunch break. saweet.

reasons why I am losing faith in humanity. ok, not really. but bless the tourists for having a case of "vacation brain." or let's hope that's all it is:
*turtle trek. enough said.
*girl: "we have 5 sea turtles at home." educator: "are you sure they're not river turtles, do they have claws?" girl: "no I'm sure, my daddy got them from the beach last year and now they live at our house." umm. super illegal.
*a 2 year old boy walking around seaworld drinking from a 2 liter bottle of coke.
*a lady pouring out her bottled water into the stingray pup pool.
*a boy walking from planter to planter uprooting a plant and dropping it into the next one.
*after looking at my nametag which says
Krista
Texas
asking me if my last name was Texas.
*anytime that anyone, anywhere says the words "is that it?". what do you mean "is that it?" have you ever seen a manatee this close before? it's only boring to you because your heart is turned off or something.
*kids and parents literally throwing their trash down at my feet while having a conversation with me at the dolphin nursery. repeatedly. eating starburst.
*ahh the plaza. "Well I guess I will just have to ask for a refund if all of your tours are booked up...what else am I supposed to do all day?"
*"I would like a refund because I didn't look at what time the park closed and I have only been here for 3 hours."
*at 9:30 pm: "I came 1000 miles to see a dolphin and you are telling me they are closed?" you came 1000 miles and waited all day long and did it last thing?

lots of links:
*funny animal pictures
*best dog ever. oh this one too. ok I just love dogs.
*once again, proud of this.
*it's cool to live in a new place and learn about new native species. except when they're endangered. *can you spot me? there are lots of me floating around on the internet lately. videos too.
*I don't have links...but recently was introduced to kaitlin videos and target lady videos from snl. enjoy.
*cool story
*cool video

yeah. hopefully one day I will make good on my commitment to get back into this. I expect a lot of good kid quotes coming up on summer camp so I'll have to keep up!