The description of humidity in Florida being heavy, like increased gravity, is accurate! When it’s overcast, it can feel like you’re trying to breathe underwater!

OMG! Florida in August!?! Someone really should have warned you.😀 Really fun video. Thanks for sharing.

I am glad to see Gatorland (with it's alligator entrance) are still open. It was the most popular tourist attraction in Central Florida until Disneyworld opened there. As far the oppressive heat, a common saying in the south when someone says it's hot is that "it's not the heat, it's the humidity." I look forward to seeing your other adventures in Florida.

Bonjour Marie, the heat and humidity in the southern US is brutal. I spent a year in Mississippi, and I never got used to it. Your excitement at the pirates dinner was so cute and adorable. It reminded me of the medieval dinner.

You look like a Florida girl! Moved here 40 years ago and never regretted it. Glad you enjoyed the wildlife. Imagine, those gators have been around since the dinosaurs time.

The pirate show kind of reminded me of medieval times! Different theme, but same level of thrill and excitement! Glad you were able to beat the heat while in Florida. Being from Canada and more used to a colder climate, I would be sweating bullets. My asthma wouldn't be a big fan of the heat either. Cheers! 🍻🐊 🇺🇸 ✈️ 🌎

Looks like you had a fantastic first day in Florida. The show looked like a lot of fun. Food looked delicious. Great video Marie.

As for “Gatorland” it’s been open for decades. The world famous entrance caught fire a couple of years ago and it was very heavily damaged‼️The footage of the fire was actually pretty wicked because the fire made the entrance look like a fire breathing Dragon ‼️🔥👀🔥👀🔥👀🔥👀🔥👀🔥

It's always nice to see my country through your eyes. There are so many things I take for granted. Thanks for another great video, kid. 👍

Hello Miss Marie !!! I Am Glad you enjoyed Florida & Yes I Did warn you it's Hot the Good News is Most of the Time you had Cover & Fans !!! Yet if you spent more than A couple of Hours in the Direct Sunlight it will Drain the Energy Right from your Body or Being on A Boat without cover it's twice as Bad on the Beach ⛱️ you can At least rent one of their sun umbrellas !!! & our weather can be very fickle one Minute it's bright & Sunny 15 minutes Later it can be a Solid Down Pour of Rain & 60 MPH winds alone with our water spouts Water tornado 🌪️ but any place you live one becomes used to how the weather will be !!! As always the like button 🔘 has been Illuminated 😁👍👍😎🤗 Hope you have A Healthy & Happy New Year 🎇🎆☀️🌞🌅🏝️🌄

I'm from Charleston, SC, which is close to Florida. The southeast US is hot and humid, but we get used to it. But, the winters are mild, which I love. Gators live in the SE us from South Carolina down to Florida and west to Louisiana and Texas. Just assume all fresh water may have alligators. Respect their space and you won't have any problems. I have several gators that live in a pond behind my house and we never had major problems.

It's not so much the heat in Florida that gets to me, I'm used to pretty hot summers in Southern California. It's the insane humidity! Between the influence of being on the Gulf coast and all the swampy areas, the humidity is ridiculous! And that makes it feel so much hotter (and, as you noted, "heavy"). Another effect of it is that when you come out of an air conditioned building into the hot, humid outside air, my glasses (cooled by the A/C inside) immediately fogged up!

The “heaviness” you mentioned is because of the humidity. It gets bad in Iowa too. 😊

It’s so good to see you really enjoying all the things we take for granted.

Bonjour Marie! Yes, visiting Florida in the Summer is THE WORST! LOL! It's not so much the heat as it is the humidity. For instance, Arizona is HOT but it's a "dry heat" so it may feel hotter but not heavier. We get high humidity here in Michigan in the Summers (likely due to the Great Lakes,) and I suppose 80F (27C) and 90% (or higher) humidity in Michigan and in Florida shouldn't feel all that different, but it always does feel "steamier" there (maybe due to proximity to the Equator?) Anyway, thanks for another great video, I hope that you ended up enjoying the warmth but did not get sunburned. Bonne Année! ~Be Blessed

That's a good description of the heat in the south. It is oppressive. You feel like you are being attacked when you first walk outside. Heat, bugs, and the occasional hurricane, but at least we have mild winters.

I started watching the Gatorland VLOGS before Christmas 2023, when they were putting up videos everyday. One interesting thing I learned is that the king of their big gator pond is actually a Nile Crocodile named Lyle. He is noticeably larger and lighter colored than the alligators. They seem to get along for the most part, but Lyle is the boss.

You're feeling the humidity. It's oppressive! 😅

This is my back yard. I was born near there and still live here in central Florida. I love my home and am glad you enjoyed your first day here.

I went to Gaotorland 40 years ago. Same front door :) It is possible that some of the young ones I saw back then might still be around in the elderly gator area.

Glad you had a good time, and it is not the heat it is the humidity that pushes down on you. This combination is why everything has air con in the southern US

Florida is awesome if you can handle the heat/humidity. You seemed to handle it better than others I've seen. 😆

My old stomping grounds!!! I lived in various parts of the state for over 20 years. It’s different for sure (not to mention hot!), but I still really like it. Glad you enjoyed yourself!!!!

I can’t believe the birds are just hanging out in the water with the gators!

I am so glad to finally see you down here in Florida! There's so much to see and do :) Hope you make it to South Florida too! ❤

I'm not from Florida, but it is such an awesome state. The weather is warm, you're never too far from the ocean, the people are wild and fun. Arguably the best state in America!

Now that looked like fun. So glad your first day was awesome.🦜🦜🦜

I saw one of your older videos and in that I believe you said loved motorcycles. I recommend visiting Daytona anytime during March 1 to March 10 of this year. An average of 500,000 motorcycles descend on that town for Bike Week.

I love your excitement in experiencing everything. I can relate - I tend to be the same when traveling.

Your super lovable…. Hope the what behind the the camera brings you joy.

Sweet. Glad you enjoyed it. My parents lasted 10 months in retirement then moved back to Wisconsin. Live your life in cold...Florida is way too hot. My ideal@France...Burgundy region. Everyone has different preferences. Continued enjoyment in Florida...the adult Toyland! 😁

In California, where I live, you spot sea lions lounging on the piers. To each their own.

Marie: Welcome to Florida. What was making you feel like pressure on you was the high humidity from all the moisture in the air. It’s a different feeling (sometimes uncomfortable for those in Florida for the first time) that one gets gradually acclimated to the longer you’re here. I’m glad you got to visit Gatorland , and the Pirate’s Dinner Adventure. I’ve enjoyed them both over the years. Hope you get a chance to see the Everglades and the Florida Keys, 2 areas which will show you the real beauty of Florida. I really enjoyed this video.😎👍👍👍

As a multi-generation native Floridian glad to see you enjoying Orlando - specifically, Gatorland and the Pirates Dinner Theater. I live in Orlando and old home week as immediately recognized baggage claim, and jaw dropped in segment where plane was landing with the low approach to runway C and saw the Goldenrod street exit sign - I'm at the other end of Goldenrod. Yes, the humidity can be a shock initially, but suspect you adjusted within a day or so. I grew up without air conditioning - and the original Mustangs didn't even offer as an option! Really looking forward to other sites you visit. There is so much.

Marie, it's so good to see you go someplace where you're actually WARM! I can only imagine how horrible it is feeling that your hands are cold all the time. I also loved seeing the times you thought you were posing for a picture and then were told it's video! You looked so happy and even giddy when you saw that you were going to a pirate dinner! I've never gotten to see something like that in Florida. The closest I ever saw to it was back when Treasure Island was doing battles in Las Vegas. Anyway, I think it's fantastic that you're having so much fun and getting out to see so many amazing places. I have to give you credit. Most people don't vacation to Florida in August, they go in January. I look forward to this series of videos and seeing what you get to experience! Keep Smiling!

Looks like you had fun Marie.

I love gators .Pirates dinner is a big show with abig dragon .Very fun . Thank you.🐲🐍🐍🐍🐍🦝🦝🦝

Pro tip: Tie wildly colorful stuff to your luggage so you can see it a mile away. ;)

Not sure if anyone else mentioned it, but raccoons are also known as trash pandas. Alligators have become so plentiful in the southern U.S. just about every State has a gator season to reduce the numbers. Love your videos! Hope 2024 is fantastic for you and your family

It's great to see you on another one of your adventures Marie. Perhaps I will get to see florida myself one day? In any case, I would like to wish you plenty of new adventures, and happy memories along the way. Keep on doing your best and don't forget to smile. ( ;

I am so happy the heat didn't bother you. I live in Florida and I know August is the hottest month. It was a great video and I can't wait for the next one. Lots of Mustangs in Florida for you to view. It was 24c today it was so nice. Stay well and be safe.

Since Troyes is the home of the Lacoste crocodile 🐊, it’s not surprising that you felt at home with the Florida alligators ! 😉🥰😂

I really admire you Marie and love your content. I have to go visit these places one day, hopefully soon. Thanks for your fun videos.

Just moved back up north from Florida. I liked it fine. Little cute trash pandas!!😂😂

It is wonderful to watch you having such a good time here in the USA!!!! Can't wait for you to do your next one! Thank you Marie for sharing your happiness with us..................

Aww i missed you. I would've brought you to see the Nile Crocodiles in the Glaciers. Then a private zoo with over 200 Tiger's. Come back soon Mae Amor 🙏

In August? Hot ain't it? Anywhere in the South during July and August=I'm melting. Now you understand why Americans have ceiling fans and AC. Regardless, it appears you really enjoyed your visit. Did the gators creep you out? Anxious to see if you got an airboat ride and if you visited Universal Studios or something similar. What a contrast, Montana to Florida. OK where next? New Orleans? The coastal South? New England and the Maritimes of Canada? Texas? The western loop through Colorado and Utah? Northern California, Lake Tahoe and Yosemite (Yo sim uh tee)? Hurricane season in The South is from August through October. The best time is Spring, especially Savannah and Charleston. Your enthusiasm is contagious, Marie.

Thanks Marie! Glad you had a good time. Yes, very humid 4 months out of the year.

Heat and humidity welcome to the south. Enjoy the food at the mom and pop restaurants

Welcome to the South 👍🇺🇸

Humidity in the east coast in summer is terrible especially in Florida and all the way up to Maine 😮

Hey Marie 😃 🌅 🐊 Bringing in the New Year with rays of sunshine to keep the winter blues at bay. Woah!! It's a Gators paradise , how amazing that it's grown from just a roadside attraction to wot it is now that's American ingenuity at it's best. It's wild that there's so many , something to see how still they are one moment & snap so suddenly the next , good thing there well fed , they've got it made. You didn't seem phased a bit , I guess if you were moving there your soon get used to them roaming around basking , in neighbours swimming pools & under trucks , anyway you can always call a wrangler to tape their noozle up & safely release them. Maybe you've seen how much some people like wrestling Gators like it's their hobby , Mike Dragich , a veteran & MMA fighter back in may near an elementary school comes to mind. You could've volunteered as a rookie at the park tackling them to( check out solo travel girl ' Jennifer A Huber ' from 2015 ) but knowing your sweet nature you wouldn't want to pester or harm them. It's unexpected & interesting to come across any albinos , it doesn't seem like there bullyed like other (herd) animals in the wild. It's cute seeing the little 🐢 turtle face ( hopefully yours is doing okay out of the cold) the baby alligators chillin & they'll be let loose before too long. It's awesome that there's a Croc named Dundee , he looks like a old timer , how can you tell , thankfully he'll never meet the same fate as Mick's 👢 It's funny how the 🦝 sure do get around never letting anything go to waste. I like that it's also family friendly so kids can over come any fears. It was definitely worth checking out , I'm glad theirs such sanctuary's free from those who Hunt them for profit , with over 1.3 million they wont be disappearing anytime soon , after all they did survive that asteroid along with birds that wiped out most of the dinosaurs. Yeah! Mustang spotting , looks like the dream one you've after. Florida's so cool for cruising & showing off , theirs a buzz in the air living there that charges you up . When your stateside again you should check out Buc- ees , it comes highly recommended , I wanna buy you one of their marvelous 🧢 for your collection. Ahoy 💣🏴‍☠️ Yo , ho , ho & a bottle of rum , the high seas are where me Heart - y it be A Swashbuckling life Galore for me , Arrgh ! How Spectacular , the dramatic music & lighting really set the scene , the high rolling acrobat's were so enjoyable , what more could you want , a show that had it all even a fiery dragon & a gorgeous 🧜 , it's great that you all got to join in to. All the food looked yummy enough , they need to include some themed flag chocolate cake , spicy cannon meat balls , fruit ships & where are the biscuits that pirates always eat , that would probably cost more, i don't know if they served any grog , you can always make your own pirate punch cocktails if your having a dress up party with the same vibe at home. Let the good times roll , another wonderful trip I'm glad you'll discovered more of what Florida 🛣️ has to offer & theirs going to be more happy memories to come. On a extra note , I recently found out about the health cardiovascular benefits ( spike proteins) of Japanese Nattokinas , try adding it to your diet , it's in the health , beauty & well being section 📍or just look up global healing & the wellness company yourself. Merci beaucoup including the recent Facebook yummy cholat 🥐 pics , green really suits you , fare thee well Marie lass , fair winds , God bless my matey 🤗 💫 🧡✌️

Awesome. You were right next door. I live next to Gatorland. Recognized everywhere you went. Hope you enjoyed my hometown. There is a lot more to Orlando than just Disney.

Cool, I am so glad you enjoyed your first day in my state. And yes it does get hot but at least there is no annual snow and it only gets to freezing a couple of times a year. I hope you continue to enjoy your time here.

GLAD YOU ENJOYED VISITING OUR STATE😄

The gator park and the pirate dinner both looked so cool! The pirate place reminds me of my childhood, because there's a place in my hometown called the Dinner Theater that combines a meal with a stage performance that my parents used to take me to as a kid.

Glad you enjoyed Florida Marie!! I'm glad you enjoy the US so much too!😀

Pirates Dinner Adventure, Renaissance Festival, Medieval Times!!! I’m starting to suspect that one of the reasons you trek the USA is to add time travel to your adventures. Fighting pirates, tournament jousting on beautiful horses for the hand of the pretty maiden, dancing on the top of desert boulders, visiting the old west, etc., all adding to the adventure. I think Disney is in the picture! 🇫🇷🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🌞🐊

So happy you enjoyed your day! great job Marie

They have a Pirayes Voyage and Dinner Show in Myrtle Beach, SC. Another great vacation spot. Historic Charleston is further south.

Thanks!

I haven't experienced Florida yet, but it looks like fun! I have a sister that lives there now, so I do have an excuse to go. Always great to see you Marie! 😊❤️

Your videos are getting better and better!

I moved to Florida a few decades ago and love it. One of my cars is a mustang convertible that you called beauties.. so it’s not a bad life compared to the cold of Michigan where i was born.

It is the humidity that makes it feel so heavy. I remember getting off a plane in Miami and it felt like I was hit in the face--just so heavy I don't like the humidity at all. On the other hand I've been in Kenya, Zimbabwe and Egypt, and Arizona with high heat and it is much more comfortable. In fact Kenya never really got that hot. The only part of that country that gets the high humidity heat is Mombasa on the coast, which I have never been to.

Nice video! My house is at Hunters Creek down the road from Gatorland lol You should come back during the winter where the weather is much more comfortable 😊

Travelling thru Normandy with a 12 yr old who wasn't interested in Le Débarquement de Normandie, we were lucky to find a place called Alligator Bay (in English) in Beauvoir, France. Interesting because it had hundreds of American alligators and crocodiles pas loin du Mont St Michel.

Hahahaaaaaa ... August in Florida .... and French ,,,, best wishes

I hope you got to see the real Florida away from the tourist traps. It is truly beautiful

That Pirate dinner-show place looks amazing. I’ll say it. Florida can keep its humidity. 🥵 Gators are a little to scary for me also. 😃

Moved myself to FL a few years ago to live somewhere nice and warm, living in Orang Park it does get darn cold here, like this time of year. I’ve woken up to ice on my car more than once this winter. Brrr.

I'm happy you enjoyed my home state yes August is hot and humid but as you said you can get used to it

That "something" you felt crushing you into the ground, is the humidity. The eastern half of the US has humid summers. Without air conditioning, it would be impossible to ever get dry.

I spent a few years in Colorado where the humidity is usually very low. When I returned to the southern US the humidity really hit me. I perspired like I was carrying a piano on my back.

We used to go there when we were kids. Way back in the 80s

Welcome to Florida. Be careful out here 😘🐊🐍

Yup. A lot of people in Europe don't understand the U.S.'s love/hate relationship with a/c. A hot day in the summer in London or Paris might be 90°F. Pretty much every day in the summer here is over 90, with more and more humidity the further south you go. I used to live in a small town in Montana where it'd stay in the 100's as a daily high in the summer. The state record high in Montana is 117 degrees F. It's miserably hot here most places in the summer. Of course, you have people that prefer the heat here too. I most definitely do not number in that crowd.

Lol, it's called humidity, welcome to the Gulf South lol.

my favorite French girl! 😍

Hi Marie, hope you had a great holiday season. I wish i would have known you were visiting florida, i would have drove over to Orlando just for the opportunity to meet one of my most favorite youtube STARS... I live on the west coast of florida were hurricans Ian hit in 2022 in a beautiful little beachvtown called Englewood, about a 2 hr drive away. Im so glad you handled our summer heat and humidity, a lot of folks wilt under it. Ill be anxiously waiting to see what other cool things and places you enjoyed here...

I see you also got to experience our Trash Pandas!

A French girl in Florida is called a Cajun from Louisiana visiting....!

Great video! The lack of pigment is pronounced al bye no :)

born in south Florida........now in Wyoming hoping it snows tonight!

So glad you had a good time here in Florida. But as others have commented already -- August!!!! No!! Come here in January, when you can see the weather report about the blizzards and polar vortices up north while sitting outside on a patio in shorts and t-shirt having a drink. We pay our dues April to October, then reap the reward November to March. BTW, I hope you considered/will visit the non-touristy parts of the state. Only 40 miles from Orlando is Merritt Island National Wildlife refuge, where (in January) you can see millions of migratory birds, and yes, gators (sans enclosures).

There used to be a spot in Florida, I really think you have would enjoyed called Cypress Gardens but I think it shut down years ago.

Gatorland sure has changed since 1981....used to be a few short elevated walkways and swamps...They used to have a stuffed 20' gator in the entrance lobby.

July and August are hot and humid everywhere on the Gulf of Mexico coast.

It's the humidity.

French pirate! ⚔😊

Live in Florida for five years on the southeast coast near Boca Raton. I agree about the heat.

It’s the humidity that’s heavy

My family and I went to Florida for our first time about the same time you were there. The heat and humidity were unbearable.

Not all adventures are comfortable, even for seasoned travelers ;-) Alligators are no longer endangered. Alligator meat is interesting. Dinner theater is quite fun.

It's the high humidity, that feels like an elephant is sitting on your chest. There are several southern states feel like that, to varying degrees. I'm from the western US (more arid environment), and I've experienced the same thing before, flying from here, into one of the southern states. That jet door opens, and you feel the proverbial elephant crushing your lungs. The difference between the two environments is quite noticeable, via flying, vs that of driving, where you have time to adapt along the way.

Hey Marie if you ever plan on coming to the Midwest I’ve got a spare house u could stay in and I’d be glad to show you some of the things to do here. Also I have a truck you can use while ur here too. So if u ever come let me know, the best time would be like June to September.

Florida in August can be oppressive. Anywhere in the South. As you move inland, further from the ocean, the temperature goes up.

Orlando is not that bad. Head on down to Key West if you want to experience hot and humid.

Love Florida. I've been there in the panhandle where the temperature is balmy.*⁠\⁠0⁠/⁠*

That Florida humidity will melt you! What did you eat at the Pirate show? By the way, I loved your Popeyes video but for a great American chicken sandwich you should also go to Chick-Fil-A