might come down a day early and looking for things to do.

That bat house near lake Alice is my jam.

Check these out:

http://www.visitgainesville.com/

http://www.cityofgainesville.org/

make sure to slather on the bug repellant though.

That's what the bats are for.

I'd watch our for the shit spraying all over you if you stand too close though. Yes, I know from experience.

ha, guess I'v never stood quite that close.

and yeah, bats eat bugs, but it's still murder being right by that lake at dusk. the bats can't get them all, and the rest will get YOU.


i've been getting bit by mosquitos more than I used to, but not as much as when I was a kid. Luckily, the bites don't last as long as when I was a kid either.

I was taking photos of them, of course.

Oh and walk around your yard and look for anything that is or can hold water. I have almost no mosquitoes and that's why. And I live in the stix. I always see way more in the city because of all the trash.

"This fruit paste is delicious."

I guess I need to que up that movie for a night of absurd comedy.

The Museum of Natural History is pretty awesome. I think the megaladon jaw display has since moved, though. Ya missed that. Next door is a huge art gallery/museum with a beautiful garden outside.

Both are free/accept donations. The Butterfly thing is the only thing that costs money to see.

FL Museum of National History

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/

Grossology sounds pretty sweet, for the kid in all of us.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/exhibits/upcoming.htm

The Harn:

http://www.harn.ufl.edu/

Oh and Payne's Prairie via the Hawthorne Trail is pretty sweet if you're going to have a bike or can get your hands on one.

http://www.floridastateparks.org/paynesprairie/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paynes_Prairie

http://www.dep.state.fl.us/gwt/guide/regions/north/trails/gainesville_hawth.htm

had to go check that out for a class assignment, that thing was sweet. I'm pretty sure if I saw a shark that big coming at me I would shit myself

Based on some special I watched on Discovery or Animal planet recently, if a shark isn't in an aggressive mood, you can grip both sides of a shark's 'nose' and send it into tonic immobility.

I'm not personally going to ever want to try it though. This guy even tried it with a great white!

Watch it sometime. Nothing short of amazing. Its the last one on this link:

http://www.sharkdivingunlimited.com/about.htm#DOCUMENTARIES

i went to the Harn and Natural History Museum when i was up there for that HWM show; definitely recommended

I saw grossology when it was in Jacksonville. It was cute, but kind of disappointing.