these two swans...

...were floating in the lobby 

of the hotel that Amanda and I stayed in 

while we were visiting Florida.

Their names are 

Bach & Beethoven.

Pretty much the whole time we stayed,

they were bathing themselves

 and plucking feathers.

Never could get them to assume their

swan positions.

Anyway...

on to my funny story.

I am scared to death of lizards...

bottom line,

sometimes I freak out.

Well, we were leaving on Tuesday morning

all dressed up

rolling our suitcases out the door 

and down the walkway.

All at once Amanda stops

and starts talking to a lizard

 that is sitting to the side of the walkway.

"Okay little fella,

you need to decide what you are going to do."

Now this lizard was not afraid.

He did not scurry away as most of them do.

He stood his ground,

staring me straight in the eye.

A man is coming up the walkway in the opposite direction.

He veers to the side off onto the grass

to allow us to pass.

We don't pass.

That lizard looks right at me and darts between my legs.

I scream..

the man laughs and just walks on by.

I am convinced that he has run up my skirt

and was lurking somewhere

up there.

Before I would get into the car I shook my skirt in every direction

including up and down.

My daughter calmed me 

and assured me

that the lizard had not gone up my skirt

and had run and hid

from all the commotion.

Lizards taunt me,

they really do!

more to this story later......