Thoughts of a Sprite

Monday, November 14, 2005

One Hell of a Weekend!

Man do I have an update in store for you guys! Wow, was it an action packed weekend!

I worked late on Friday, which made getting up early Saturday a bitch, but boy was it worth it. We headed to St. Augustine, where we stopped first at the Alligator farm to collect Algae specimans off the Alligators. You have to get really close to an alligator to get algae off of it. I am now an alligator wrestler. I have some pics, but not the good ones, those have not been emailed to me yet. They will be soon to follow I hope!

We used an African Alligator as our species, as she was covered in Algae. We renamed her an Algaegator rather than an Alligator. After the very exciting capture, we moved the gator from the exhibit, to behind the scenes, were we began our study. The first pic you see is one of the girls from my class, holding her down, and me on her tail, while the teacher pulls aglae from her tail. I hopped on next, and someone else took pics.

After we finished with the African Alligator, we headed over to the Alligator pit. There were anywhere from 50-60 HUGE Alligators in this pit. As you can see, there is one large fella less than 5 feet behind us. Folks, we are in the exhibit, no glass, no safety net... just us and the gators. It was so cool. How many people do you know, can say they have wrestled with an Alligator? haha that's great.

After the Alligator farm, we headed over to the hidden conquinas. These are large smooth rocks, that are often hidden by the tide. The rocks are actually made from crushed up shells cemented together by mother nature. In these rocks there are large round holes borrowed by some other type of crustation. It was neat let me tell you. We collected all kinds of cool specimans from there, not to mention got to play in the water.

Dr. D and his wife took us all to lunch. We went to this place called manzanna's or something. It was great. We had Oysters (steamed) chicken wings, peal and eat shrimp, and our entree's. I got the lunch portion of the fried shrimp. I have been dying for some Oysters for some time now! It was heavenly.

Then back to G'ville we headed. We took our specimans to the lab, and headed home. I got home around 1830.

A, Lar, Ruth and I all went to dinner at Fridays, and then headed back to the house for some icey beverages, and played cards till the wee hours of the morning. Sunday came all too soon! Once we finally rolled out of bed, A and I went to grab a bite to eat, and headed to the 24th annual Art's festival in G'ville. We only got to spend an hour browsing, but it was very cool. I could have spent 5 there, and still not seen it all!

We had to hurry back to the house, because it was my Uncle's and my cousin's birthday this week, so they were having dinner. This turned into shooting skeet, a bonfire, and dinner. Ruth has never shot skeet before, and it has been a while since I had. We had a blast!!! I have pics of that too, which I can post tonight.

I found this on Carmel's blog...

LINK: Create your own South Park Charecter

I thought it was very cool!

One of the benefits of being in my Algae class, is that the rest of the class are nerds too! Cool nerds, but nerds none the less. They were helping me come up with more useless facts. I had to bust out my notebook and write a few of these puppies down!

A headed back down to Orlando this morning. It was a pretty good weekend I thought. Action packed and full of adventure. I will have a much quieter weekend this weekend coming up. I have a paper due on Monday... EKKK! Homebody Heather will be my name!

Useless fact of the day: Did you know that a Blue Whale's heart is as large as a small car, it's blood vessels are large enough that a person could swim down them, and it's tale, called a fluke, is the size of a small plane?

Thought for the day: I am happy and content because I think I am. ~ Alain-Rene Lesage

Well folks that is about it for now. More to come, including shooting pics, when I get my hands on my own computer. Blog ya later.

shes_a_sprite @ 2:10 PM.

3 comments

Unknown said...

What a weekend! You are an aligator wrestler! I can't say that I have done anything even CLOSE! St.Augustine actually looks like a real pretty area.
Very cute South Park character! I was wanting to see what some of my readers would come up with. :D

7:17 PM

starbender said...

WoW! Sounds like a busy week-end 2 me! Aligators, huh? (or should I say Algaegators!)
Now look what you've done!
I'm gonna be callin 'em
ALGAEGATORS from now on!!!
:o

1:48 AM

Dano said...

I would love to shoot skeet!
And wrestle gators!
I'm livin in the wrong corner of the world.

9:52 AM