Hey y'all.

I'm in LA [which is northern Florida, LA stands for Lower Alabama] Everyone here has southern accents. If I'm around them long enough, I may pick up a slight southern accent, which I have been known to do since I was little. 

I drove on the coast today, it was a little scary, because I was so close to the water, but at the same time it was beautiful. I wish that I could live in a little house by the sea. It's so pretty and peaceful there.

We went to Wakulla Springs, which is a government run state park. They've shot movies around there because it the water is so clear. The Creature From the Black Lagoon was shot there, which was pretty cool. I lost count of how many alligators that I saw, but then again, If I wanna see alligators, I just have to walk out back too the lake. Our tour guide was so funny. His name was Luke and he liked that mullet. His two front teeth were missing, and he used it to his advantage. It was fun!

For lunch, we stopped at this Oyster place in Appalachia [sp???]. It was called Boss Oysters, but since I don't really like seafood at all, I didn't get any. My mom on the other had kept ordering more and more food. It's funny. She says that we're going to eat healthy, and then there she is, ordering 4 different kinds of Oyserts [3 of each, it was a spampler dish] cheese grits [It's a southern thing...hell yeah!] and me and my dad kept making fun of her. It was funny.

We stopped at an Ice Cream place in Mexico Beach, that was reallyyyy good, and then we drove all the way to Panama City Beach. On the way there we passed a gas station that was called: Mr. Cheap Butts, which got me and my dad laughing. I got a few pictures of it, so I'll post them when I get home. We thought that we would spend the night in Panama City Beach, but it was way to busy. We decided to go to another town, but, my parents being great travelers, we didn't bring a map with us, so we didn't really know where we were headed. We drove around for a while in Panama City Beach, trying to find a Panera [Ashley] or a Starbucks. Somewhere that had Internet access, and we found a Panera Bread and a Target with a Starbucks in it. We didn't go to Panera, but we went into Target and my parents stood in the aisle for about 15ish minutes [are any of you aware of the Florida "ish"? It means a general time. With a max. of 30 minute different either way, and on special occasion, an hour.] trying to figure out which atlas to buy. It was rather funny. I just walked away and looked that the movies, and SURPRISE, books. =]] When we got to the check out counter, we had a cute checkout guy and my mom bought and Oprah mag. and me and my dad were laughing at her, and the checkout guy was flirting. It was funny. My dad intervined though, I don't think he liked the idea that a guy 2-3 years older than me was flirting. I was almost jailbait. If he doesn't like that, I highly doubt he'd like the fact that an almost 18-year-old asked me out! EWWWWWWW! I still want to throw up at the thought of that.

A while down the road, we stopped at a Subway and my parents didn't want to go in, so I went in alone to order for all of us. Now, in Sarasota, [and the suronding areas] I don't mind going into a place alone, but in a strange city, I'm not in a hurry to do that. I went in and [yes...lets establish this, all the guys that I mention in this letter, I am jailbait to them.] and the guy was flirting with me, almost hitting on me. And, yes, I had a conversation, but I don't really flirt with guys [unless you count that time in Sweetbay=Lesa, and yes, I'm cracking up right now! ] He was creepy, and really religious. Not really that fun. 

Anyway, I'm done with talking about guys. It's odd though, this stuff didn't use to happen to me, and now it seems like it happens a lot. But whatever, I can't seem to find a happy medium. grrrr.

So now, I'm at a Best Western, in Defuniak Springs. Which is god knows where...I went swimming earlier, and there were these little kids that couldn't find there goggles. I helped them, and then it was like, "lets impress the big kid". It was cute. It was a little annoying though. It was really funny, becuase I guess someone in there family had gone to McDonalds to get them food and apparently they had been gone a while, and the little girl [who was 8] said " What are they doin'? Cheaten' on some girls?" And my mom got this really shocked look on her face, and I started CRACKING up! It was great. I'm tired now, I stayed up really late last night, and we did a lot more than yesterday. 

Tomorrow, were going to head up to Kentucky to go to Mammoth Caves.