This is ridiculous

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. Ann Bradstreet

Altun Ha, Belize

Belize was fabulous.  I can't believe I went this far in life and not visited this part of the world.  This pictures is Ivar, our guide.  He told us all about the Mayan Indians.  Highly recommend this excursion if you get a chance.

Grand Cayman Turtle Farm

 

This was SO cool!!! We went to the Cayman Turtle Farm on one of our excursions earlier this month while on our Panama Canal cruise.  It was awesome - the weather was perfect (unlike here today - 28 degrees and snowing)!!!  Check out there web site at:   Cayman Turtle Farm

Because of Winn Dixie

I have got to see this movie Because of Winn Dixie. I read this book to my classes for the past two years and they loved it! It will make you cry and it will make you laugh. It takes place in the south (I believe a more southern part of Florida - southern meaning more like the rest of the south and not like the metro areas) and the main character, Opal, is being raised by her father, "the preacher."

For my northern friends, Winn Dixie is a grocery store chain in the southeast (but this is not a story about a grocery store:)

What did you say?

I decided to create this blog after having several incidents (that I can't usually remember) happened when people up here in the north have to ask me to interpret something I said. Just recently, last night, I went to a musical (Menopause the Musical - awesome, I must say) and one of my former co-workers asked where we had parked. I said we parked in the parking deck. She asked me to repeat it. Well, having a very strong accent (and it's too late to change now) I assumed she didn't understand when I said "deck." She said, "Oh you said deck." She said something to the effect of my southern sayings. I had never thought of that one. I later told another coworker about my conversation and she said that they called it the "parking garage." Well, I've heard that but never put the two together like it was important. She asked, "What do you call where you park you car at your house?" I said, of course, "The garage!" Oh, well, go figure.