July 18, 2006 | Filed under: big easy, misadventures
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FYI, big frogs don’t usually have so many teeth. Objects in the video were closer that they appear. Seriously. There was a plank walkway along the swamp which could be crossed by aligators at any moment. I don’t know if the they ever do, but it was creepy enough to know that they could.
This tidbit is from back in May when we were still in New Orleans. I haven’t posted much in the last couple of weeks (Bad vlogger! Naughty, bad, bad!) for a couple of reasons.
A: I’ve been working and picking up OT in order to save up money to move to a bigger apartment
B: been to a delightful out of town wedding (congratulations Michael & Tara!)
C: attempting to convince my boyfriend fiancee that we should elope. That’s pretty much a full-time job in itself!
It’s also wicked hot in the Northeast–100 today– and I’m hard-pressed to be motivated to do anything more than lie very, very still and eat many, many popsicles.
I’ve also downloaded a whole mess of cool iMovie plug-ins that I’ve been fiddling with and learning how to use. All the better to vlog with, my dear.
July 18, 2006
@ 4:04 pm
did you say fiance? you did! congrats bekah and brian!
July 18, 2006
@ 7:50 pm
I heard you can catch an aligator if you pour salt on his tail. Or maybe that was eat.
July 18, 2006
@ 11:52 pm
I lived in “Flawda” for 3 years. Nope. That wasn’t a frog.
July 19, 2006
@ 3:00 am
Eeek! An alligator! I would be sooooo scared!!!! You are very brave!
July 19, 2006
@ 12:48 pm
Now–if the alligator eats YOU, do you get fined? Inquiring minds want to know. (That guy was ENTIRELY too close for comfort)
Oh yeah–and I echo what leslie said!
July 19, 2006
@ 1:14 pm
I don’t like alligators, specially when the ’sink’ and you don’t know where they are.
July 19, 2006
@ 9:40 pm
Eloping rules - do it! And big congratulations
Meanwhile, gators aren’t so scary…well, maybe that close they are. Eek.
July 20, 2006
@ 12:07 pm
that was really funny, except for the aligator part… that was a little scary
July 20, 2006
@ 1:05 pm
I use to see alligators all the time when I lived in Florida. They were scary to me then and they still are. Loved your video…too funny!
July 20, 2006
@ 3:25 pm
Whoa… amazing footage! I love the sounds of that swamp too! Hard to believe they let people roam that close to alligators–that ain’t no Six Flags!
July 20, 2006
@ 6:14 pm
The whistling part was really funny.
Evan (http://e-vlog.blogspot.com)
July 21, 2006
@ 1:09 am
I loved the Blair Witch like moment in this video…
Congrats!
Honeymoon in Nippon!?
July 22, 2006
@ 3:32 am
Reminds me of the alligator swamp in the James Bond movie, ‘Live & Let Die’.
July 22, 2006
@ 9:42 am
Congratulations on your engagement! Marriage is fun! Yay!
Your banter in this video is stupendous. I love the tension, especially when you so nicely ask the cute little alligator not to eat you.
July 22, 2006
@ 7:17 pm
B……I just love your boyfriend/fiancee….My wife is sitting here correcting me by saying once you are a “fiancee” you are no longer a boyfriend….I did not know that..
anyway…he is just so cool….whistling for the alligator…..classic, just classic of course I would have done the same thing or probably thrown something at it.. 
Yeah…..glad to see you back!!
July 24, 2006
@ 5:16 am
fiance? u never told us!!! when? yay!! congtas to both of u…
so new york or new orleans?…what abt sydney, australia?
dURGA
July 24, 2006
@ 9:08 am
Man, my fiancée would have killed to have seen that. She bugs me on every trip down to see my folks in Florida, “where are all the gators?” She keeps a semi-constant vigil on the side of the road as we’re driving too.
The one gator we finally did see was unfortunately hit by a car on the FL turnpike so I didn’t wake her for that, too sad.
July 24, 2006
@ 1:53 pm
Oh man…alligators, engagements…I have to pee now.
July 25, 2006
@ 6:03 am
Congrats on the pending wedding! Just did the marriage thing myself on the 14th and it was awesome! (Was? It still is!)
I love alligators - they taste good and are dinosaur-esque. You should’ve brought a few babies home to put in the sewers in NYC. Folks love that sort of thing up there!
July 25, 2006
@ 10:42 am
That’s insane.
I mean, the worst we have to contend with when we go camping are bears or a really cranky moose.
Congrats, BTW.
Subtle, as usual.
Hugs,
J
July 27, 2006
@ 4:13 pm
Thanks for all the congrats!! The whole engagement thing is super new…just a few days before the ‘gator posting…
I’m very happy. Totally freaked, but happy!
July 27, 2006
@ 8:55 pm
Somehow that was way freakier than if you saw the same thing in a zoo. Amazing creatures them gators.
July 28, 2006
@ 5:38 pm
WHAT?? Since you aren’t making New Orleans your home…you can’t post anymore?
What’s up with that?
Just kidding but us southern girls (by way of Florida) still look forward to your posts.
Did you sell the house in N.O.???
I hope all is well with you.
Dawn
August 20, 2006
@ 3:14 pm
I am in agreement with Brittany that eloping is the way to go. I was best man at my friends wedding. Yeah all the planning, traveling, family issues, stress etc etc etc. Elope…just do it!
So does whistling actually get a gator’s attention?