Saturday February 21, 2009

It was quite chilly again this morning - tied the record for the low in Tallahassee. It did get warmer though - about mid-sixties by this afternoon. We started the day by catching up with the laundry. We then went out to Innovation Park (nearby to the archaeology lab) as they were having open house at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (MagLab). It was great fun! We took Flat Stanley with us and got some cool pictures of him with the Mag Lev train, standing next to a superconducting magnet, and next to a Pine snake about 6 feet long (local nature centers and museums also had booths here). We spent several hours roaming around and looking at the exhibits. They even had a potato cannon demonstration and were making Einstein ice cream which involved mixing the ingredients with liquid nitrogen which made it solidify in seconds. Flat Stanley had a great time and so did we. We then went back to the Mission so Dave could give the young man at the blacksmith shop some pointers. I sat on a bench in the sun and read my book for about an hour while Dave was doing his thing. When he was done, we realized it was after 4:00 and we hadn't eaten lunch. We decided to do linner again (or maybe lupper?) and went to a Colombian restaurant that everyone at the lab has been talking about. It is called Super Perros (which literally means super dogs, I believe - not a fantastic name for a restaurant). We shared a meal called La Bandeja Paisa. It was a large plate with a small to medium portion of many different foods: rice, beans, fried egg, corn muffin, sausage, pork rinds (neither of us cared for this), steak, salad, and plantains. It was very good and now we are stuffed! We haven't made a plan to tomorrow yet, but I'm sure we will come up with something. By the way, there are several people who are staying here with their dogs for the dog show. We saw a Great Dane in the parking lot this morning - huge, but beautiful dog!