Friday, December 11, 2009

Making Oyster Mats

Today was a fun filled day. In the morning Devin and stopped at the beach on our way to the Barrier Island Sanctuary. We made a sand/snow man with a seaweed scarf and shell buttons. He turned out really cute. At the Barrier Island Sanctuary we helped with the Nature Conservancy's Indian River Lagoon Oyster Reef Restoration Project. We spent about 2 hours ziptieing oyster shells to black plastic mats. It was a lot of fun and there were a bunch of interesting people there. One of them is leaving in March to hike the Appalachian trail.
On the way home I spotted a huge rattle snake on the road and I made Devin turn around; unfortunately it had already been hit by a car. We ate at Big Island Burrito for lunch and got shaved ice for dessert.
Once we got home I started cooking (stop laughing) because Ryan and Trina came over for dinner. I made meatloaf, green beans, and couscous and Devin made a strawberry/banana sorbet for dessert. After dinner we went to visit Tim and Kim (friends of Devin and Ryan) to watch their holiday light display. Tim spends hours choreographing the lights to play in sync with music that he transmits over FM radio. You can watch some of his videos from previous years on his website: http://www.palmbaylights.com/, and I recommend you do because they are fantastic. After all that excitement we finally called it a day.

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