Thursday, July 28, 2011

Home of the Gators

Devin and I took a day trip up to Gainesville today. I had told my University of Florida Physicians team that I worked with at Epic that I would come visit them and finally 2 1/2 years later I finally am. We left first thing in the morning and made it there in time to meet up with my team for lunch. Only Denise and Pam were able to come but I did get to see Javi as well. It was great to catch up with them and hear how things were going. The team just finished getting up all of their ambulatory clinics, yay! Both Denise and Pam got married (and so did I) and I got to see some of their wedding pictures. Pam even gave me a mouse pad with their logo
which they hadn't decided on in the year I was on the project.
After lunch Devin and I went to the Florida Museum of Natural
History to see the butterflies and other exhibits. The butterfly rain forest has somewhere between 60 and 80 different species and was awesome. My favorite one was shades of green, blue, and purple and I also liked the giant moth which I can't remember the name of. I had a butterfly land on me which was really neat. The other special exhibit the museum had was Wild Music which explores th ebiological origins of music. They had different instruments from around the world, different sounds from nature that are replicated in music, and different areas to make and record music. I recorded myself singing the theme from Fraggle
Rock, anyone surprised?

Sunday, July 3, 2011

I was in the Florida Today

The Florida Today put in a picture of me feeding a marsh rabbit at the Florida Wildlife Hospital & Sanctuary. Normally the bunny would be wrapped up in the washcloth in a "bunny burrito" so that it can't run away but this bunny cooperated for his photo shoot and stood still which I gave him some Pedialyte. We'll slowly start to introduce it to milk and hopefully it will start eating lettuce on its own and get released. We release them back into the wild once they weigh over 180 grams.