Art and alligators

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This morning we drove off to pick up my cousin mariness and then went back to the Orlando museum of art.


As before, we got there before it opened and decided to look around a bit. In places this was harder than it should be.

Mariness goes through this all the time and I don't always appreciate it when I'm on my own. But, even things like where the dumpster is can be important.

The museum is in an area with lots of paths and art along the side of the paths. Some of it has information on who did it and what it means, and some doesn't. So, we guessed that this one must have been done by squirrels.


This one clearly by dogs.


The art community is clearly pro 1st amendment rights for freedom of expression.
But, somehow they don't seem to express it well.

If they don't like censorship, why block out the middle two letters?
Or, since it is not spelled censorship, maybe they mean something else that I don't know?
Not clear.

Sadly the museum has not changed it's NO PHOTO policy since Friday. They have replaced the person selling tickets with one far more chatty. But, Orlando seems to have a lot of chatty people.

The glass exhibit that opened yesterday, and the reason we went back, was very nice and had a lot of interesting pieces.
But, there were still problems.
There were two pieces by Stanislav Libenský called "Rhomboid Head" and "Crater".
One looked like brown mushroom of glass about two feet tall. The other looked like a bright green pyramid about 4 feet high.
We could not tell which was which. The gallery guards didn't know either. The supervisor they called over didn't know either.
They promised to find out which was which and make it more clear. But, they also expressed their doubts they would be able to do it while we were there. (And, they were right. I still don't know.)

After the museum, we brought Mariness home and tag teamed her brother Thomas to come with us to Gatorland.

My wife wanted her photo taken holding the little gator they let you hold. Apparently the guy working that booth thought that adding the snake too might shock her. But, we used to own a snake like that and she used to wear it all the time. So, no big deal.

(Although I doubt we would have paid to hold the snake having had plenty of that in the past.)

We did not buy gator food as lots of other people did. So, we could watch the feeding frenzy of gators without having to pay extra for it.

Actually, being cool the gators don't get into much of a frenzy. But, they did push each other into the water as they climbed over each other and snapped at each other a bit.

Then, it was gator sitting time. Thomas wanted to sit on a gator. I had two years ago and wanted to again. So we went to the gator sitting area where there was a nice complacent gator waiting.


Thomas got his wish to sit on the gator.


I did it too. But, those photos are on my wife's camera. Right now I'm too lazy to go over and load them. So, photos of me on the gator will have to wait.

We walked around the back area of Gatorland where there are lots of the more rare crocodiles and such. There are all sorts of snake warnings saying "don't pick up the rattlesnakes", but we didn't see any.


The croc Thomas sat on did come back for revenge and captured him.


But, he escaped and we walked through the main gator area.


They close at sunset and we headed back to pick up Mariness again.


We went out to a Mexican place near their house. (Yay, something other than pub food!)
The mole sauce was good, but not as good as I had in Mexico.


When we got back to their house, we found that they had laid out their Christmas lights in a mouse like shape.

Sometimes I think they may be just a bit too found of the mouse...

After we dropped them off, we stopped to get gas. Figuring out how to open the gas door on the VW was quite hard.

Eventually I found if you hit it, it pops open. But, that took a fair bit to discover.

We got back to the hotel much earlier than the last few nights. So, we're going to rest up for tomorrow.

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[pallid-regina.livejournal.com]

I love that the snake is just cruisin' on down the wee gator.