Aw, my sister and bro-in-law are so cute. They went camping with Brian over the weekend. It looks like their weather was much better than ours, as it has basically been raining for more than 24 hours straight.
I’d like to think that one of the first things you’d learn in City Planning 101 is: DON’T BUILD A CITY ON A SWAMP. Alas, someone didn’t listen and thus my current hometown, merely the 4th biggest city in the country, is located in an area that freaking floods every time it freaking rains hard. The news this morning was full of people who drove their cars into flooded roads and were *gasp* surprised when their car floated away. There was even a big ol’ fire truck that got stuck in the water, and was being pulled out by an equally big tow truck. Ugh. I am so glad that I don’t have to get on the highway to get to work.
Normally I wouldn’t mind a day of rain too much, but yesterday it totally ruined my plans. The Bayou City Art Festival was this past weekend, and we weren’t able to go on Saturday because of other plans. We’d been looking forward to it for weeks! At 11:00 yesterday, we decided to take a chance and drove all the way downtown (after the man on the other end of the information phone line told me that the festival was still going on), only to find that 90% of the artists were already gone or in the process of packing up. We saw a couple cool pieces, including a painting that I loved but couldn’t check for prints because the booth was mostly packed up, but the whole thing was pretty underwhelming. We were bummed out for the whole drive home.
On Saturday, before the deluge, we had a throwback to our co-op days and went to Bolivar to celebrate Jen’s 30th birthday. The weather was less than ideal — overcast with a steady wind off the ocean that only grew stronger as the evening went on until by 9:00 when we left, we were huddled behind the cars in an attempt to get out of the 25+ mph sustained winds. Despite the mini-hurricane, we had a good time watching the dogs run around chasing seagulls, hitting (or attempting to hit) golf balls into the surf, grilling burgers, and giving each other airbrushed tattoos via one of Jen’s birthday presents. The ferry ride was fun both ways, especially on the way over, when at least half a dozen dolphins were swimming through the waves churned up by the ferry and the wind.
On Saturday morning I went for a 15.7-mile bike ride, my first ride since triathlon season ended for me a month ago. I rode from my apartment over to UHCL, then previewed the route of yesterday’s 10-miler to find out exactly where the 5-mile relay handover point was, then back home. It was a pretty windy morning, but I had a nice ride and got home just under an hour.
JohnnyTri says
Totally wet! Funny, dont build a city on a swamp, or how about dont build a city at ZERO SEALEVEL, oh we could go on and on..
Guess its training at the gym today..
rockon Sarah
katie says
planners try to do the right thing most of the time, but people don’t like to listen. people enjoy their oceanfront/riverfront views.