The university was pretty cool. Saw some labs including fish, analysis and phytoplankton, a small museum, and a movie of mostly underwater photos and a few videos. Talked to a lot of the professors there, learned a fair bit. I got the feeling that one or two of them were trying a little too hard to impress us, but that's life. We even talked to the head of the department, one of the faculty who had been to University of Oregon worked as a translator.

Also, the badger in the room that was otherwise all aquatic animals seemed somewhat out of place.

After that we went to lunch, had burgers and fries, played Checkers with Nate, watched some idiotic Funniest Home Videos-style show. I got to playing the old paper football game with Nate, using a water bottle cap, but when we weren't paying attention a guy took it away when he was clearing our table. A minute or two later, another waiter brought it back to us. That was pretty cool. I won 9-6, by the way.

I'm not really sure where we're headed now. Mostly I wanted to get the bottlecap story down before I forgot. I'm sure we'll see something cool this afternoon.

Monday, March 8th, roughly 2:35-2:40 PM local time