Saturday, February 6, 2010

The Old folks at home

"The Old Folks at Home" is Florida's state song and not a reference to the many old folks we observed in Florida.

We first stopped in Pensacola on the western tip of the Florida pan-handle. Before rolling into town we noticed several billboards advertising a diner, a wrangler store, and a Subway restaurant. We stopped and were surprised to learn that all these establishments were under the same roof. The diner portion was called the "derailed diner" and the facade of the building looks like a derailed train. According to the menu this is in honor of how hard life is and in memory of the owner's dead husband. I didn't quite get it but here is what it looked like.


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According to his name tag our waiter was a "train-e" and it ended up taking a while so I explored the store. Apparently you can get tire swings in the shape of a horse as well as real saddles. When I told Molly about the swing she thought they had tire swings for use by horses. It took several minutes but we figured things out.

I also played some video games.  

The next day I went into a Publix supermarket, which I may add makes some tasty sandwiches, and noticed the tabloids and celeberty magazines had screens infront of them like pornos at a gas station. Ahhh North Florida.

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