The Island is Sinking

Monday, June 10, 2013

Dauphin Island has been crying since Angela left on Sunday.  Coincidence? I think not.  It's not just rain though.  It's sheets of water drowning the island.  Roads are literally inches under water.  I'm pretty sure the island is not an island anymore... it's completely under water.  So that's pretty exciting.  Anna and I are passing the time with some super cool, new Zumba moves. 

In class we did some Visum, looking through microscopes. I mostly did not find what we needed to, but my slide was full of crab larvae.  It's pretty cool looking, actually! Maybe it'll come in handy for my Invert class next session.

After class it's to the lab we go to work on our "Super" experiment.  I say super as in large/over-the-top rather than ridiculously awesome (though, I guess it is ridiculously awesome as well).  We're working on our Soil Organic Matter (SOM), but there was a crab in one of our test tubes and no one in our group could find the thing. Guess we'll just have some more SOM in that tube. What can ya do?

Late night adventure: This is a very random story: (Only read if you care about our dessert catastrophe)

We decided to try the new coffee shop because its grand opening way "today."  Anna was going to satisfy her coffee addiction, and I was going to eat a delicious bear claw.  It was all planned out... until it was closed... for a whole week longer! It doesn't open until next Tuesday and they just changed the sign today.  Not cool!  But then Anna and I decided we'd just change our plans and go try the snow cone shack nearby.  Worst idea ever.  That stuff tasted awful, and that is saying something because I am not a picky eater at all.  I'm talkin dirty-icy-no-flavor-except-the-bad-after-taste snow cone.  I rather eat juncus than this stuff.  (If you don't know what Juncus is, please educate yourself with my prior post: Journey through the Juncus Jungle.) If you did read my post on juncus, you understand the seriousness of the terribleness of this snow cone.  I can not wait to go back to Miami Ice in Florence!  They have REAL snow cones that taste almost like heaven.  But back to Anna and my grave situation... we needed a dessert and two places have already disappointed us.  So let's go find civilization and dessert in one!  Across the bridge we go... and there's a bait shop and a couple restaurants that are already closed... at 8:30 at night.  Really? So that was a waste of half an hour.  But there is a restaurant called the Islander, that we think closes at 9 and it's 9... But we're going to try it anyways.  We're that desperate. And we were right.  They closed at 9, but they graciously sat up anyways.  And we got THE BEST bread pudding ever.  It was ginormous, gooey, warm, beautiful, wonderful, craving-satisfying dessert.  Word to the wise: Islanders is a Yes.  Snow Cones are a NO.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The rain stopped.  Class in the morning.  Beach in the afternoon.  Walk on the beach after dinner.  I wasn't kidding when I said I'm Beach bummin it. Love it!!  

Though getting to the beach was fun on our nice, flooded island.  Rule #2, always have good tires on this island.  Wait. That was Rule #1; I always get those mixed up.

Andddd.... I GOT A TANNNNN!! Angela said so, so it's obviously true.  Everyone should note that this is a MIRACLE.

And I got to Skype with my wonderful Yogini. Day made!