IMATA meeting at the Seaquarium

Last weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at the IMATA regional meeting being held at the Miami Seaquarium. Was great to met everyone, and had the opportunity to see some of the seaquarium work I hadn't had a chance to before, like the swim with program for the seals. It is a pretty unique program, were you free swim and interact with their harbor seals.

Have also been really slow to update the blog, mostly because I have been using Instagram instead. It is just a bit quicker to upload photos from my phone. If you want, you can check it out: https://www.instagram.com/amandastansbury/

Miami County Fair

Last night Marc and I were lucky enough to enjoy a visit to the county fair. We ate delicious fried food...they had a fried veggies stall and the fried green tomatoes and pickles were the best!...and enjoyed watching people on the rides. They had a log flume which is pretty impressive for a traveling fair. The agriculture area wasn't the best...they had the usual competition which I would never trust to bring my animals to, but also a petting zoo for people to feed the animals. Many animals were overweight, and some were really struggling in the florida heat. So not so impressed, and can't support that. But we still had a nice night out, and it was good to see first hand how they handled their animals.