Hello all,

Today was our day off. We traveled to Virginia Beach and took a day off from our research. We were planning to go surfing but it turned out that there were no waves so that plan was abandoned for swimming. We said goodbye to Chris, with regret and wishes. The shops in Virginia Beach are filled with some of the world’s wackiest t-shirts. Other bizarre gifts range from anything you could find in a chotsky shop to the tackiest of stores.
Lunch proved harder to find than one would imagine as it seems that Virginia beach has a siesta at about 1:00pm, we think that all the restaurant owners want to take a beach day every once in awhile. Finally after a long search past the California pizza whose dishes seemed to have been made n their name state and later shipped here we found Harpoon Larry’s Oyster Bar which turned out to have some killer seafood. Candace and Kate took advantage of large crab arms and crawfish.
Later we setup some fantastic rainbow beach umbrellas and read David Sedaris. Our adventures continued to the Virginia Beach aquarium, which is advertise on BOB FM (the local radio station) to make you dance. While the dancing was minimal, the marine life was interestingly and mostly local providing yet another opportunity to learn about the local ocean environments. Finally, we returned to another episode of Tribe, an awesome series on the world’s last remaining true tribes, in which Bruce Perry lives with the local people and immerses himself in their culture.

-The Team