Thursday, February 13th

Today consisted of school, fishing from the pier, more Science on the Sphere, and an aquarium.  The boys caught one fish that wasn’t big enough to keep!  We headed to the education center for another presentation on the sphere.  Today’s topic was Land.  They talked about how the earth looked 600 million years ago.  Wow, crazy!  South America and Africa used to be all one piece of land.  Only 1% of the water on earth is available for human usage.  North and South America move away from Europe and Africa 2 inches per year.  2013 was the 10^th hottest year on record and 2014 is predicted to be the hottest ever.  (Super hard to believe with how cold it has been so far this winter……at least wherever we’ve been!)  They talked about the plates of the earth.  The one in the Pacific area is called the Pacific Plate, also called "Ring of Fire" because of all the earthquakes and volcanoes that occur in the western side (or Far East?) near Japan or the Philippines.

 The Rockport Aquarium is a small but mighty!  Their fish are from this area so it was very interesting.  While Jeff and the kids waited for me to do some work using good WiFi at the County Library, they went to the dock to watch the oyster boats come in.  BUSY place on a nice afternoon.  Home to cook up some Sheephead fish for dinner.  Wasn’t great actually, so I guess they don’t need to feel bad about not catching very many.   

TOMORROW IS THE DAY TO GO OUT ON THE BOAT TO FISH!  ONLY BEEN TRYING FOR 9 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                                                                                                     **Sara