5 Things I Learned in Florida

• Plan on expanding your house so you have room for shells
  This was day one of shell collecting --->. I had to stop looking down for fear I'd have to buy another airplane ticket and put a human shaped shell creature in it just to get them all home. I was doing pretty well until I spotted this one:I don't even know what it is. It's been a long time since I found a shell I hadn't seen before.
• I need to Google image it...ah, found it. Paper Nautilus. Stunned I found it whole - it's super fragile!
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• nd turns out, without knowing it, we also took a picture of the octopus that made that shell as an egg chamber.
  
• Sharks Schmarks
  It isn't the fact that you've watched JAWS about 150 times that will keep you out of the water. It's seeing scores of man o' war jellyfish on the beach every morning. Here's one with 10ft long tentacles. Snikeys!
• Exercise Can't Fight Pineapple Coconut Margaritas
  No matter how far you walk on the beach every morning, it doesn't keep you skinny when you can hear Pineapple Coconut Margaritas calling your name from every tiki bar in the area. Throw in the conch fritters and grouper sandwiches and the fact you were totally kidding yourself when you thought you'd just shop and cook like you do at home...
• Make sure your airplane tickets are changeable.
  Because the weather is thirty degrees warmer in Florida and you'd swim with the man o' wars to be able to stay a few more weeks!