Vacation Wrap Up

I was on vacation in Hilton Head last week, thus the lack of a Friday question. It was a very relaxing week.

I swam in the ocean a mere 15 feet away from some dolphins. I know they are kind and gentle beings but they are quite large. It freaked me out. When I got back into the office, one of my coworkers told me he heard that male dolphins have been known to molest human female swimmers. As in try to mate with them. I don't know if that's true but that freaked me out even more.

I saw an alligator swimming in a ditch. Thankfully, I was in the car at the time.

Every morning I would drink my coffee out on the deck and watch the squirrels knock each other out of the palm trees. Apparently squirrels also always land on their feet. They make quite a thud when they hit the ground too. All survived.

A 4 foot snake fell out of a tree onto the deck right next to my dad's chair. The snake survived, as did my dad. Dad is reportedly still experiencing nightmares. Surprisingly, I thought it was kind of cool.

I held a blue crab.
I ate a raw oyster and didn't puke.
I got sunburned on part of my butt cheeks because of my stupid "boy shorts" bathing suit bottoms.

And, I saw this incredibly ugly duck/chicken/turkey bird. Andy called him a "turducken" after a recipe of the same name (which is a chicken stuffed in a duck stuffed in a turkey or something like that). We named him Frank. Frank is pictured above. I'm currently trying to find out what kind of bird this is. Frank was hanging out with a bunch of standard issue mallard-types who didn't seem to notice that he didn't quite fit in.