Travel

Fire in paradise

Yesterday, around 10:30AM, Jimmy and I started walking from our beach house to the beach. As soon as we walked outside we saw this…Woah.

We couldn’t firgure out where the smoke was coming from and we didn’t know what caused it. People we standing in the streets just looking at the smoke with their jaws hanging open.

Jimmy convinced me to keep walking to the beach but I was so afraid. So many things ran through my mind… Should we evacuate? Are we going to be able to breathe? What if our house catches on fire? Is anyone hurt?When we got on the beach, we could see a thick layer of smoke over the water and could taste fire in the air. Eventually, someone told us that a nearby marsh fire was causing all the smoke and that it was contained.

Once we got home, I checked out some online news websites to see what really happened. It was nice to finally find out what was going on and to know that we weren’t going to die in a massive fire! As the day went on, the smoke cleared up as all was well again. Phew. What a crazy situation! I’m so glad everyone was safe and no extensive damage was done. God is good 🙂

An interesting run

While in Florida last week I had a predicament. Jim and I stayed with my awesome family. (My dad’s uncle, aunt, and cousin)

One thing was not awesome:

They. Don’t. Drink. Coffee.

The first day Jim and I were there I could not, for the life of me, figure out why I had a raging headache. DUUUUH. No coffee!

Jim and I were on a run in their local park in Seminole, Fl.

Any park that has palm trees and a lake makes Allie happy 🙂

Anyways, so I was running along. DYING from lack of coffee. Like I was running slow. Jim was next to me on a bike acting like I wasn’t going slower than the grandma drivers in Florida. I had already stopped running like 6 times because I wanted water or to stretch. (I promise I never do this!)

Then we found a cool reason to stop(again):

I had to save the turtle!!!!! It was in the middle of the park road and I put it back in the grass 🙂 He was a shy little guy but so adorable and now I want a turtle!

That made for an interesting run.

We treated ourselves afterwards….

Saving a turtle is hard work and requires COFFEE ! 😉

Ever save an animal?! or Died from no coffee?!