Little Acton Adventure

Got to work at around 8:30am. Chitchatted, and then headed out to Acton lake with Allie (from our lab) and the Other lab. Old blue was ... old, but still dependable.  Old blue is the truck we took. Well, it was a beautiful day and still is! Allie and I got there first and we kept on hearing splashing which made us nervous.  We eventually found that huge fish were jumping around, flailing against the docks, bottoms of pontoon boats, and sides of the cement.  We didn't know if they were mating, spawning, dying, feeding, or just crazy.  Some of the fish were HUGE! like 2.5 feet long probably.  Anyway, we all got distracted for a while.  It was really hot out on the boat by the outflow and I covered the floor with water so my feet wouldn't burn.  It was really nice being out there and I saw about 4 different types of beautiful butterflies out on the lake. One was on the boat and would just land on people and not fly away even when they walked around, so it was sort of in our way.  But, it was very pretty.  There was also a zebra swallow tail that kept on getting in my face but it was also very pretty.  On the way back to the inflow a huge blue heron flew really close to us, and we saw a bunch of turtles sunbathing.  It was a good day to observe nature, enjoy good company, and soak up some rays! Once we docked...we couldn't get the gate open to get off the dock. We had issues with the lock so we climbed around the fence and swung the pontoon boat to the side and just used the boat to load stuff from the dock, onto the boat, and onto the other side to get to the truck...right after we finished figuring this stuff out (very heavy coolers and such btw)...the lock was finally able to be opened.  Everybody tried once or twice and I guess it took another try..Hey, at least we know that if we are desperate, we can figure out a way out for ourselves.

So job 1 was good. Job 3 was unattainable as I will not be staying at Miami. Also, Movie Gallery is closing out.  I need to remember to go by and check it out to see if there are good dvd deals. Yay. Which reminds me, I wonder where my Nintendo DS Lite is. Maybe I can get games for it. I need to be less scattered and keep track of where my stuff is!...taking a break before dinner and Job 2! I hope it is as successful as last night because I actually really enjoyed work last night.