XRF Queens

This is my first field excursion in my new job. Maggie and I had to go to the lab and using this new handheld XRF (X-ray fluorence) machine to measure the mineral contents of the core samples from one of our tennement.
This is Maggie trying to look serious....I think she just got the case of the giggles!!!!!Here's me trying to look like "Lara Croft' from Tomb Raider.....trying really hard...... but not really succeding. I think I just haven't got the 'tight shorts' and the 'bee sting pout'.

This is how much core samples we had to measure with the XRF machine. It took a long time but it was all worth it to just get out of the office and play with the hand-held XRF and see all its features and to get familiar with it.