#paintnight

“When the pandemic forced us out of the water, we still discovered the wonder of our undersea world with paint nights featuring some of our favorite reef creatures from the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Here, funds from our paintings even supported critical reef restoration efforts.”

Congratulations to Tiffany Duong for not only making the best out of these challenging times but also winning second place in the Sanctuaries at Home Category!

To check out the other photo contest winners, head to https://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/photo-contest.html

We bought this “Adventure Challenge” book in March and finally got a chance to do our first challenge today! The rules of the book are once you scratch off a challenge you must then go complete it. HOWEVER we scratched one last night that we couldn’t complete today because we woke up and it was pouring rain and it was outdoor activity... so we scratched another one ... our official challenge today was to dress up fancy and paint portraits.. clearly we modified the activity. We didn’t dress up because both of us would very clearly get paint all over ourselves.. and to quote Doug — “My fancy clothes are fancy because they don’t have stains on them.”  - Instead we decided to find a YouTube tutorial for beginners and I must say that they came out pretty good! An afternoon well spent and definitely something we would not have decided to do together on our own without this book.