Secret Santa Chocolate Turtle Cheesecake

Before I initiate my keyboard to type another character I would like to give a big shout to my Secret Santa for the cool holiday characters and wine charms! If you’re ever in the See Magazine area come on by the office and take a gander at the collection sitting on my widescreen monitor. I didn’t break the head off of Santa’s Elf though; I think one of my colleagues thought it was edible. Either way, my gifts are most appreciated.

If I had to specially designate a word to describe this week it would definitely have to be CHOCOLATE! It’s not even Friday and I’ve already had about 3 mini Mr. Good Bars, 1 mini Special Dark Chocolate, four or five Ferrero Rocher chocolates, some Reese cups, 2 mini white chocolate Kit Kat bars, and a white chocolate truffle courtesy of the crew’s Secret Santas as well the array of candy bowls graciously placed throughout the building. Sharing is caring and I’m feeling the love.

Saturday was fun. Skip, Ben, Sunshine, Paco and I all headed out on the TV-RV to film St. Petersburg nature videos. On the way there Ben and I went head-to-head battling each on our Nintendo DS consoles in about thirty-something games of Tetris. Tetris never gets old. Ever.

A soon as we landed at Weeden Island Preserve, we immediately came in contact with an endangered gopher turtle. I got into NG mode (National Geographic) and got all up in his face! BAM! Smile for the camera, endangered gopher turtle. He tried to waddle away but I kept on him until I got the shot. Yeah he hissed and hid in his shell but I waited patiently until I got what I came for. He knew I wasn’t going anywhere so after a few seconds he gave me what I wanted. I thanked him, put a twenty on his shell, and went about my business. Just kidding. The truth is the gopher turtle was quite nice and he let me film him with no problems. He was kind of a ham and I didn’t have twenty dollars.

After the nature shoot we headed to Dunedin for dinner. We dined at this unique-looking restaurant called Kelly’s. My meal was cool but my desert was better. It was so good I had to take a picture of it:

I also met the legendary Arnold Palmer two days ago at the Bay Hill Club. Now that I’ve been to numerous tournament courses over the last few months, I can give you an opinion based solely on my experiences and sincerely say that the 27 holes at Bay Hill are beautiful. We did take a picture with Mr. Palmer but it’s still on the TV-RV. I’m sure one of my compadres will share it with you in their next post. He gave us all autographs and signed the TV-RV. He was super patient and super cool.

Till Next Time.

Happy Holidays.

Amon Focus