See Ya Later Alligator

We have been here in Florida for 3 years now. This is the state of Alligators(I think they are alligators here not crocodiles), and we finally saw our first one (in the wild) about 4-5 months ago. Though it was in this fenced in lagoon area. But still, it was pretty big too about 5 feet I would guess. My father-in-law has told me how there have been alligators in the lake behind our house lots of times, and once they get so big they have them taken out, though I have yet to see one. That was till yesterday! Hubby was just about ready to go out and weed wac. When he came and got N and me(and the camera) so we could see it. There it was floating in the lake. He was only about 2-3 feet long. It was so cool I showed N-from the safety of our Lani(back porch), while hubby tried to get a picture of it. When he got up to take the picture the alligator swam underwater and he couldn't take the picture. I'm hoping he'll come back so I can get a picture of him. Though N said bye to him.