![]() ![]() ![]() We stayed on the bay side (the west side of the Key Largo), which turned out to be a great choice because the water is so calm and inviting pretty much all the time. When you’re there, you just want to be in the water or on the water – this is also partly related to the low of how blazing hot it is, but that’s for later. We saw dolphins, turtles, a manatee, rays, tons of fish, and a few small nurse sharks (they’re not aggressive, don’t worry). It’s also filled with tons of fun sea life. The Water – This is one of the biggest draws of the Florida Keys for good reason! The water on both the ocean and bay side is beautiful, clear, and bright. I’ll also be including more than one high and low as a way to fully capture our time there. I tell you this because I plan to use this format to reflect on each location Nathan and I travel to over the course of this year! (And also maybe to inspire your next dinner time conservation.) I’m a little later than I’d like to be on writing this for our first stop – Key Largo – but ya know, I had to build a whole website first. I have to be honest though, whenever someone says they had “no low” I mostly just don’t believe them, inwardly roll my eyes, and then hope the next person will be more forthcoming. Now, in the actual game, if a person just absolutely CANNOT think of a low, then everyone has to chant “NO LOW, NO LOW, NO LOW, NO LOW, NO LOW” while banging their fists on the table like some scene involving the lost boys from Neverland. It’s a really great exercise because 1) you’re forced to think back and reflect a little on the moment of life you’ve just come from and 2) it challenges you to consider both the positives and the negatives, the whole spectrum of thoughts and feelings of your experience when many of us naturally lean more to one side or the other. ![]() It can be deep and serious, or lighthearted and funny – no one gets to decide how you label a high or low besides you. The concept is that everyone goes around and shares a “high” – something really good or fun or funny – that happened that day (or that week or month) and a “low” – something hard or sad or frustrating. So there’s this conversation starter we learned from our community back in Atlanta – it’s called “Highs & Lows.” It’s nothing crazy unique, but it is a fun way to get things flowing, say, around a dinner table with friends or family. ![]()
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