Pumpkin and Spice

Today was an early, early morning- at least for me, especially after a late night at work. The alarm went off at 6a, after a mere five hours after I went to bed, but Sissy and I had big plans for the day, so I peeled myself out of bed to get ready.

Saturday night, after getting off work, I "finalized" our Sundance schedule for today. Since all the films today were sold out, we were going to have to waitlist for tickets. There's no way to know how many waitlist tickets will be available for any movie until minutes before showtime, we wanted to have serveral options available. I made a list with film names, the theatre they were playing at, the times we could get in waitlist lines, and the showtimes.

Since we got into Coral Springs a little late (1:00a) last night, we slept a little late this morning. Well... late for my mom. 8:00ish, which is about normal for me. We ate breakfast (I had raisin bran, coffee, a Silk chocolate soy milk and a banana) and then headed out to a fabulously quirky, odd-ball attraction- The Coral Castle!

The Coral Castle was built in Florida City in the 1920s by a Latvian immigrant named Ed Leedskalnin. As a youth in Latvia, he had his heart broken by his fiancee. Shortly after, he moved to America, where he began work on the Coral Castle. He quarried his own coral, and began building himself a fantasy world. In the 1930s, he moved to Homestead, FL, and spent three years moving the pieces he had already carved to his new home. Once settled in, he continued work on his castle. He carved and quarried all of the coral rock himself, and refused to allow anyone to watch him work. He never told anyone exactly how he carved and moved the pieces, but he did not use any mechanical devices. That is remarkable on its own, but even more so when you take into account the fact that Leedskalnin was only 5 feet tall, and weighed only 100lbs.