Magical Mermaids and Sea Monsters

I slept in this morning and didn't get out to the Haddon Township Library until past 11. It was already in the 60s by then, though not quite as warm as yesterday. There were a lot of people and animals roaming around in Newton River Park; I dodged dog walkers, parents out with little kids, people taking a mid-day stroll, and Canadian geese poking around for their lunch.

Given the nice day, it probably shouldn't have been a surprise that there wasn't much to do at the library. Another volunteer had already shelved most of the adult DVDs. I organized the children's DVDs and pulled foreign and children's titles from the adult section. Took out this spring's Barbie As special, Mermaid Tale 2, and the newest Scooby Doo collection, Scooby Doo and the Sea Monsters, along with two books on writing careers.

There wasn't enough time to eat lunch out, and I had plenty of leftovers anyway, so I went straight home, passing a group of teenagers in front of the Ritz Theatre in Oaklyn waiting to board their school buses back to Audubon. When I got in, I took down the St. Patrick's Day decorations and put up the Easter items. I have quite a few cute things for Easter, including three baskets, a huge bunny statue I picked up from the thrift shop in Collingswood before they shut down, two smaller ones I got from Mom a few years ago for a combination Easter/birthday present, and two stuffed Peeps in bright blue and yellow.

Ran Mermaid's Tale 2 while doing the decorating and eating leftovers for lunch. Merliah, the half-surfer, half-mermaid, once again finds herself rescuing the sea from the evil sorceress Eris. Her surfing rival Kylie unknowingly helped her out of the whirlpool she was trapped in...setting off a chain of events that leads Eris to trap Merliah's mother in a spell that traps her in her worst fear forever! The two competitors will have to work together to rescue the Queen...and prove that two mermaid tails really are better than one.

Not bad. Not as good as the first, but better than the somewhat similar Fairy Secret. The animation is improving, too. I especially like the waves and ocean effects here.

Ran some Scooby as I got ready for work. All three of these episodes come from What's New, Scooby Doo. "She Sells Sea Monsters By the Seashore" takes Mystery Inc to a time share resort on a tropical island for a vacation. But the natives aren't too friendly...and neither is the sea monster who is terrorizing tourists. The locals think it's the spirit of an island god, but Velma and Daphne aren't buying that myth. The laid-back owner of a glass-bottom boat and a sea turtle-loving marine biologist both have their reasons for wanting tourists away from the island, but only one has the equipment or the time to create the "monster."

Work was, once again, busy during rush hour, quiet before and afterwards. I spent a lot of the night doing returns. Oh, and the bathrooms finally have stalls. Nice steel ones, too. They did a good job. Now, if they'd only get furniture for the back room...