A New Hope

What better way could there be to wake up than a workout followed by an outdoor shower in the tropics. So awesome. Made some scrambled eggs (also nice to be back to cooking for myself… ). Today was dedicated to not being on schedule. Or maybe to a tour of the gardens, its hard to tell sometimes. The facilities are amazing. Expansive libraries and art collections and an incredible wealth of information. Toured the various areas of the gardens. Its quite a mosaic so its still hard to tell what all there is to see but its quite impressive. Speaking of impressive, Burney has an incredible knowledge base. The man could talk about anything at the drop of a hat. The flip side of that is that once he gets going its impossible to stay on schedule. We didn’t end up getting to lunch until well after 2, by which time people had gotten pretty grouchy and on edge. Made it through though and got introduced the sinkhole, although we didn’t get to go in the cave. After lunch was spent trying to get the kite and UAV to go. The kite didn’t work due to wind conditions but we did manage to fly it briefly. The UAV worked much better and we were able to get that flying with only one short run-in with security. The grad student getting to fly the remote control plain was pretty clearly loving where his studies had taken him, as well he should’ve.