The NFC B-Day Chat Thread

[pertnear09]

Since we aren't going to have the restaurant, I'm going to try it one more season. We'll have to see how it goes!

Are they going to renovate the restaurant into something they consider useful?

 

[N F C]

Are they going to renovate the restaurant into something they consider useful?

Hi Pert!

No renovations that I'm aware of. There's a rumor that the company that owns the course might be willing to lease the space to someone else to operate a restaurant there. Don't know why anyone would want to...the place is only open 6 months out of 12 and it's very hard to get employees willing to drive out there (and customers too).

Guess we'll see!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Sorry I took so long to reply. Got busy aha

Anyway, we finally went to the alligator farm as well as the pirate museum today. Both were awesome.

Ripleys is fun and the Fountain of Youth is close to that. Even if you don't make it inside the fort, periodically they do some re-enactment stuff outside and shoot off a canon. Oh that bridge I forgot, do they still have the big lions on either end? If you get the chance, check out some Cuban food! Love that stuff Just don't expect it to be like Mexican, because it's way different. There used to be a nice Cuban restaurant close to the Ponce de Leon statue.

Oh boy, you're making me miss it now. Have a blast and tell us about your trip when you get home.

We are thinking of going to Ripley’s tomorrow but might do it tonight no have a bit of a headache right now but if it goes away maybe we will.

But we did do the pirate museum and the alligator farm today. Both were awesome.

And we did walk around the fort a bit. Not the entire thing but most of it. That was cool too.

Maybe we’ll go in tomorrow ha

So far it’s been great. Lots of great food.

And yes they still have the lions at the ends of the bridge.

Don't hand feed the gators!

wouldn’t dream of it.

Or the pirates!

pirates were surprisingly democratic lol

If gators bite off a chunk of you, think you get fined for "feeding the gators." So don't.

Would probably be a pretty good place to get rid of a body if you needed to

 

[ShrekDawg]

I took wayyyy more pictures but limiting it to the most intimidating looking animals.

 

[bruceha2000]

pirates were surprisingly democratic lol

Honor among thieves! I had heard that life in the regular merchant shipping and the English navy wasn't all that good. Of course pirating had its own risks, like people trying to kill you when you attempted to take their ship. Or trying and then killing you if you were captured doing so.

I wonder how often the captain of a pirate ship was voted out of office by the crew.

Would probably be a pretty good place to get rid of a body if you needed to

That is a whole lotta gators!

 

[drumstick diva]

All of this causes me to recall "the dread pirate Roberts," in "Princess Bride."

 

[N F C]

Sorry I took so long to reply. Got busy aha

Anyway, we finally went to the alligator farm as well as the pirate museum today. Both were awesome.



We are thinking of going to Ripley’s tomorrow but might do it tonight no have a bit of a headache right now but if it goes away maybe we will.

But we did do the pirate museum and the alligator farm today. Both were awesome.

And we did walk around the fort a bit. Not the entire thing but most of it. That was cool too.

Maybe we’ll go in tomorrow ha

So far it’s been great. Lots of great food.

And yes they still have the lions at the ends of the bridge.



wouldn’t dream of it.



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Sounds like a fun time Kelsey!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Honor among thieves! I had heard that life in the regular merchant shipping and the English navy wasn't all that good. Of course pirating had its own risks, like people trying to kill you when you attempted to take their ship. Or trying and then killing you if you were captured doing so.

Yes, I think it was pretty rough back then!! But then again so was pirating, like you said. Lot of risk. If you got caught, you were dead. But I guess the freedom in the meantime was better than being under somebody else’s control?

I wonder how often the captain of a pirate ship was voted out of office by the crew.

I wonder that too!!

I can’t believe they even had disability/welfare back then.

That is a whole lotta gators!

sure is!!!

Some of them were seriously huge! Some of the crocs too.

All of this causes me to recall "the dread pirate Roberts," in "Princess Bride."

I love that movie!

Sounds like a fun time Kelsey!

It definitely was!! It was a very nice park. I was kind of surprised by how nice it was and how many other animals they had. More like a zoo.

The pirate museum was awesome too. All the treasure was so cool.

 

[bruceha2000]

I can’t believe they even had disability/welfare back then.

Some people consider taking care of those less fortunate to be a good thing.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Some people consider taking care of those less fortunate to be a good thing.

Oh yeah, no, it is, sorry if it seemed like I was saying it wasn’t with the emoji or whatever, that was mostly just shock at the fact they had a form of it way back then. Because it seems very progressive for the time.