Jacks or better

Up before the sun rose today to go fishing with Mark. Someone should tell the fish that noon is a much better feeding time than sunrise. Once again, I didn't catch anything, although I had a few bites. I did get to see huge schools of mullet (bait fish) literally jumping out of the water trying to escape whatever was after them. One school even was jumping up on shore only to be picked off by the eagerly waiting herons and egrets. Devin caught a jack, which is probably what was doing the chasing. It was about as long as his forearm and it was a very solid fish.

Fishing, zoo, and beach

Another great Thursday. We got up early to go fishing. Devin caught a trout and I almost caught a gar. I got the gar to the surface where I could see the fish in his mouth and see that he was almost 3 feet long and then he snapped my line. Devin said that was a good thing, apparently gar are pretty vicious. On the way back home we saw a huge rainbow from end to end.

In the afternoon, Devin and I went to the Brevard Zoo. We stopped in the petting zoo, now that school is in session there are a lot less screaming kids around, and petted the armadillos, alpacas, goats, and deer. The armadillos were attacking my feet and licking my toes. Devin fed the loris and we both fed Rafiki the giraffe.

After the zoo we got shaved ice (I had Tiger Blood/Mango and Devin had Strawberry Daiquiri/Pina Colada) and went to the beach. There were a lot of moon jellies on the beach which is something I've never seen before and there was another rainbow. It still seems weird for it to rain when it's hot and sunny out.

Fishing, car accident, and interview

Today started off really well. I went surf fishing with Devin and Ryan early, early in the morning. The sunrise was very pretty and some clouds in the distance made it so the sun wasn't glaring directly in our eyes. Ryan caught a blue fish (one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish) and Devin caught a catfish. I had a couple of bites but no fish; however, I did make an awesome sandcastle. We all went swimming and did some body surfing. I brought my surfboard but the waves weren't big enough for surfing. There have been barely any waves for the last couple of weeks.


Later I had my third interview with Gymboree for a position as a music teacher. The interview went well but on the way there a car hit me in the parking lot. No injuries so don't worry, but there is about $1,500 worth of damage to the front of my car. I was approaching a corner and stopped because I saw the other car looking like it was going to cut the corner short on his turn which he did and drove directly into my car head on. This was about 7 minutes before I was supposed to be at my interview. He was on the way to the hospital because his wife is having their first baby (it's a girl) and he was not paying attention to driving. See my lovely diagram depicting the accident. Right now it seems like his insurance company will cover the damages so keep your fingers crossed for me. All in all, a pretty stressful day.