Thought this was some nice street art in Fort Lauderdale.
The water and boating, the high-rise condos and hotels, and the beautiful blue skyline.
The good Caribbean with sun, sand, and water.
Looks and feels so good! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Why is Hawaii one of those places where people always go:
Have you been?
They don’t even say the words “to Hawaii”.
Like Hawaii is just one of those places where you’re supposed to read people’s minds.
Have you been?
Umm, let me think a moment.
And before you even get a chance to respond further, the other person goes:
Oh, well let me tell you about the time we were in Hawaii and…
Of course, nothing much ever really seems to come after that except something about the wonderful beaches!
Like there aren’t nice, exotic beaches anywhere else.
Frankly, it’s a little remote anyway, no?
The other thing about Hawaii, of course, is if one of the volcanos starts smoking its angry stack!
Better start playing that little guitar Hula dancer! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
You can dance if you want to.
Even if you’re a purple thingamajig.
You can leave your friends behind.
Cause your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance.
Then they’re no friends of mine.
Dance purple thingamajig, dance! 😉
(Credit Video: Andy Blumenthal)
It was a fun time at The Amish Experience today in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania.
One and a half hour bus tour of Amish country.
45 Minute movie about Jacob, an Amish teen, trying to decide whether he wants to be in the outside world or in the Amish one.
And another hour of so tour of an Amish school house and home.
Felt like I learned a lot about their culture (including no TV, internet, electricity [just batteries and solar], and education only through 8th grade).
Honestly, it doesn’t seem like they really have much a choice in whether to choose the church and become Amish or leave, because if they choose to leave they are shunned (i.e. excommunicated)!
So you either choose you family, church, community, and a wife (and there is no divorce) or you run off to G-d knows where completely alone and “divorced” from everything you know.
The video is when we stopped at an Amish farm and I went in to the big barn with all the cows.
After so much time on the bus, I needed to ham it up a little and have fun with:
“How now brown cow. It is so nice to eat you! You are beautiful animals. And thank you Hashem for making you!” 😉
(Credit Video: Andy and Dossy Blumenthal)
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