NOLA!

I met my amazing friend Nikki in New Orleans for a weekend.  We've both moved away from College Station and wanted to get together.  The trip was a perfect mix of history and fun (and well, history IS fun).  We toured the Saints Hall of Fame and got to peek inside of the Superdome, did a hokey ghost tour, toured a plantation, went to the Historic New Orleans Collection exhibit about Louisiana history, went to the Crescent City Blues & BBQ festival, visited a cemetery...but you know, none of that is as exciting as Bourbon Street on a Saturday Night.  Haha!

And oh, the muffaletta.  I am not a girl who likes cold cuts, especially salami and pepperoni, but that was one wonderful sandwich.  And beignets.  NomNomNom...... 

Droppings

I am the Education Coordinator at the Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur.  Last weekend, we hosted a Family Fun Day to celebrate the opening of a temporary exhibit, Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway.  Because the exhibit features the fossils, dinosaurs, and other prehistoric organisms in the artwork, many of the activities were related to dinosaurs and paleontology.

One of the activities was a "dig" in which kids could find a "egg."  After they found the egg, they could break it, and inside they would find a little toy dinosaur.

Okay, so I had to make dozens of these eggs for the event.  It wasn't difficult.  There are numerous recipes online.  I mixed coffee grounds, craft sand, flour, salt, and water to create the dough.  Then, I nestled the baby dino inside and rolled the dough to cover the little guy.  The egg was heated at a low temp in the oven.

But, I must admit...they don't really look like dinosaur eggs.  They looked more like...dinosaur poo.  (Or dog $h!+.)  I was making these things with my student worker and we were giggling over that fact.

But, unlike doggy droppings, these "eggs" smelled great thanks to the coffee grounds.

I had a few leftovers, so I brought some home to Michael.  As with most of the kids, Michael really loved finding the little dinosaurs.