Relaxing

Dental School starts in about a week and I've been relaxing in Birmingham for the past few days. I just got back from visiting my grandparents in FL and we went to Sea World too. We had a good time. One of the coolest things we did in Florida was playing with the manatees in my grandparent's "backyard" (they live on the water). About 3 manatees were swimming near the sea wall outside of my grandparent's house and we decided to get some freshwater from the hose and spray it in the water to see what would happen. Grammie has told us to try this before, and nothing happened the last time. This time however, there was significant pressure in the hose and the water shot up 10 feet in the air and came down on the water alerting the manatees to its presence. Then they languidly swam over to the water and rolled over on their bellies to feel the cool water massage their skin. They enjoyed this (and so did we) for another 30 minutes or so. They hung around for a few hours after we stopped spraying them. It was a lot of fun. By the way- apparently, Manatees have fingernails- LOOK!

So for the next week or so, I'm going to try to relax like the manatee above before I have lots of work to do. Maybe I can even finish Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which I've been reading since last August...