Nearly a month since the last blog entry. Clearly we have misplaced our priorities.
Spring is bouncing around here in Alabama - giving us some sunny 80 degree days bookended by soggy rain-filled blah days like today! Yesterday downtown Tuscaloosa hosted the (free!) Druid City Art Festival which has come a loooonnnngg way from the first year where there was a main stage with a few musicians and 5 artists (one of them being our old neighbor). This year the number of artists increased maybe about 50 artists. It was a beautiful sunny day so it was nice to walk about around a bunch of , though the artists weren't totally our cup of tea (mostly houndstooth items, jewelry, soaps, and a lot of pottery). So still a ways to go, but all in all good fun for the family.
Last week we drove to Birmingham for the day to take a soggy walk at Red Mountain Park with Hannah. We did a bit of shopping (including walking into a West Elm for the first time ever (BAD idea, we want everything in the store), and then had a meal at El Barrio.
We're headed to Portland in May for the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting! Dan will present some data from his dissertation and Chau will tag along for fun and mostly tool around Portland and soak up liberal city life. Dan found a place from airbnb which is a short walk from the convention center so we're pretty excited for the trip!
Speaking of Dan-o, Friday he received his award for the the Chernock prize, so he is now a proud owner of a nice pen and pencil set and an award he can setup in his office. Yeah!!
My work has been going well - things seem to go in cycles. Right now we're entering another quiet week with some office work and field work, but then next week our 5 seasonal technicians come and it will be fairly hectic! We will train them for 2 weeks then we will finally start field work!! Yikes!
Here are a few photos...
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