I derived this past weekend. I went to Lettuce Lake Park on Saturday: http://www.hillsboroughcounty.org/Facilities.aspx?page=detail&RID=437. I went with three others and while we had a time to meet, we had no plan, no path, and no agenda. The set-up of the park itself offered several pathways and welcomed getting lost and/or retracing your steps (without fully realizing that you were doing that). The two-hour-long walk brought many surprises, but here were the best unexpected moments for me.

#1: A playground! We weren't sure what each of the devices was meant for -- for instance, what is the purpose of a bench with a metal handlebar on the top? Push-ups? Tricep dips? Balancing? Or, why would you have three logs of different heights all in a row?

#2: A family of turtles! They were so cute and it almost looks like they ordered themselves in order of largest to smallest.

#3: An alligator! Two of us had never seen an alligator before and we were beyond thrilled. Our friends who were more familiar with such reptiles mentioned that this one was a particularly good sighting because he was a) awake and b) bigger than most. So, yay!

#4: Don't molest the wildlife. Just look at the sign and question why it was necessary to create it in the first place.