Wednesday

Today was a pretty busy day at camp. We took the kiddies fishing. The 12 of them caught 28 fish! I ran around unhooking and releasing fish like crazy. They caught pinfish, a red grouper, grunt fish (they're also called pigfish because they make this sound like a pig grunt) and a mudskipper. We only had one problem child. Joshua threw a fit, complete with fishing pole punting, cussing, and crying because he is highly alergic to shellfish so he couldn't bait his hook with the squid and had to use a plastic lure and of course he didn't catch any fish. Also, no one told me that he has a mild form of autism, which sure explains a lot. Other than that, the kids are dolls, except Liam, he is a brat.

One of the girls, Shelia, is from Los Altos so I was pretty excited to get to talk to her about stuff from back home.

We took the kids snorkeling after and didn't find too many cool things. I was surprised, we usually find all kinds of good marine life. However, as we were walking back, I did spot a snake, I think it was a corn snake, in the gutter on the side of the road, right next to the sidewalk (there aren't any curbs) so it was a pretty close encounter. I tried to keep it on the DL (pretty much all the girls are scared of them) but when I saw it, I think I said something along the lines of holy jesus. Of course all the boys wanted to go back and see it but somehow Demi and I kept them away.

Somehow after work, Amy (one of the edu staff) roped me into going with her to help her with a presentation on sea turtles at the Anna Maria Island library. Karsen (one of the high school interns) had to go too. It wasn't bad at all, I learned a couple of things, so then I didn't get home until about 7, which made for a pretty long day. I think I'm going to try to go to bed early so I can ride my bike again, I rode it to work yesterday, fairly easy ride, coming home was a bit warm but at least I can count it for my exercise for the day!