Traveling to Tampa - Part 4

Dammit Gilligan. Well, there were some good things about the tour. First up, 2 good things we were supposed to see on the tour:

1. An alligator. This was the 'cool' animal to see because manatees were not "in season". We did see one. A lazy one at that. Frankly, I think is was a plastic prop.
2. A house with a tree growing through it. Now that was pretty cool.

Now we have 2 cool things we saw on the trip that weren't 'scheduled'.

1. A gas can buoy. Ok, not so cool by itself, but it marked the spot of a sunken car. Ok, again not that big a deal. The car was a VW Bug that was part of a raft race along this lazy river. Apparently the raft failed. What the hell were they thinking?!
2. A cool looking pit bull running along pier. Ok, so only dog lovers appreciate that.

And now here are 4 annoying things on the tour.

1. Child #1, "the cryer". They should not expose an infant to such heat.
2. The microphone. I had no range, so our tour guide kept cutting out.
3. Child #2, "little miss separation anxiety". Obviously the entire extended family lived together, in a shoe no doubt, because she screamed like all get out whenever one of them left the area.
4. The parents of child 1 and 2 (all same family). Child #2 would eat a dry cracker, and then cough. On me. And then the parents would repeat. They never figured out the cause and effect between the dry cracker and the coughing. "I see dumb people".

Of course the child had no good water because the minivan driver, the girl on the last trip if you recall, promptly left the bag of ice in the van and drove away. Apparently only SuperChauffeur is able to save children and remember the ice.

So in the end, we decided the best we could have hoped for was to throw the parents of child 1 and 2 overboard, making a human landbridge to the pier, where the dog could run across them to us. Then armed with the dog, people would get out of our way. Well, we all need to have a plan anyway.

Next up, downtown Tampa