Recently there have been a few cases of the flesh-eating bacteria in the bay by the ship channel. I coach in the lake, far away from the bay and even farther away from the channel. But thank you to all the mommies and daddies who have 'educated' there children on this fascinating bacteria. Now I get to deal with "I can't sail... I could die!" Do these parents not understand that every child has a scrape or cut somewhere and that they aren't going to die from it? Because now none of the kids are able to swim because they fear death by bacteria. I'm also faced with questions that I don't feel qualified to answer such as "If this cut on my ankle gets the flesh eating bacteria will I lose my whole foot or just a chunk out of my ankle?" Well Dr. Fontenot believes that the particular bacteria that will infect your cut will not only eat the flesh off your foot but also slowly and painfully eat away at your BRAIN!
Please parents, stop educating your children and leave that the professionals!
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Brunch, Bashes and of course Best Friends
This weekend has been amazing! It finally feels like summer but I only have two weeks left. The weekend started off pretty calm. I read The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and I'm not going to say it was a good omen for the weekend but it couldn't have hurt. The whole theme of the novel was following your own personal dreams (by watching for omens) and appreciating the world around you. Great book for those who are entering a new phase in their life aka graduating college.
Saturday was an adventure to say the least. Caroleene was in town from Alabama so we had to show her a good time. Roberta decided we should head to schlitterbahn in Galveston which was a great idea seeing how it was a thousand degrees! And the lazy river was the only remedy for the heat. Here we are when we decided to finally give up our search for tubes and enter the river before we died in the heat. (Imagine roberta in the group, she was too busy being a great photographer to get into the picture)
Here's the group in the not so lazy, lazy river. Let me tell you right now... I almost lost my bottoms numerous times on those 'lazy river' rapids.
The lazy river was bunches of fun after we stole tubes from small children as they got swept under the water (nobody drowned while we were there... or that I know of) After a few laps we decided to leave the river to go down some slides. But first we had to take a stop in the raining mushroom...
We didn't have time to do too many rides so we decided to take on the two most intense rides in the park and then head back to river which in my eyes was a great idea because I love floating around in a man made river filled with a thousand people I don't know. The rides where awesome though! Here is the park from the top of one of our rides
John and I had to do some Baywatch rescuing in the wave pool and Roberta got some shots as we were searching for the victim
All and all we had a great time floating and sliding and running around the park. Even though there were close to three thousand people in the park and over half of them had less then a year to live because they were so morbidly obese.
On the way home we had to get some Dairy Queen to top the afternoon off and I found my new favorite flavor blizzard. For those of you who don't know I've only gotten M&M blizzards for well... my entire life but now it's all about the reese's cups. Clearly, AMAZING!
After a quick dinner it was time to head downtown for a house warming/goodbye party at Larry's new apartment. After a few cocktails it was time to pull the drums out and start making some lovely music!
Sam and I were just there to say hey but quickly found ourselves surrounds by air force guys who clearly had seen a girls in years. They tried to impress us with their lack of film and literature knowledge and really impressed us their practically none existing international travels. But who can blame them... we were the only two girls there who weren't engaged and well, we were lookin good!
However the evening wasn't all fun and drinks, the night marked our last party with Jeremy (or so I thought) in Houston. I miss him already!
After Larry excused himself to the bathroom to save himself from alcohol poisoning and Sam was finally drunk enough to consider even making out with one of the air force guys and I had grown tired of discussing weddings I decided to gather up my little Sam and head home for the evening.
Sam came barreling into my room at 8am to go search for dolphins (yes the bay currently has dolphins... porpoise if you will) So of course I throw on something decent and head out to the boat to go on a search for the dolphins. Here is sam using her finger as a dolphin finder which actually seems to work because she was the one the spotted the first pod.
We followed these three for a good third minuites which was a ton of fun because she was so excited about the find!
We couldn't stay long because we had to get ready for Sunday brunch with Larry and Jeremy and a few of their friends in town. Of course we get all dressed up for what I thought would be a typical Sunday brunch of elevator music and eggs benedict but boy was I wrong! The bottom floor of the restaurant was pretty typical with a pact bar with hungover guys sucking down bloody mary's. But when our whole party arrived and we were walked upstairs to the patio I was not prepared for the DJ spinning, the shot girls walking around and the dancing that was to ensue after brunch. It was the best going away brunch for Jeremy I could have ever imagined!
Larry and Jeremy :-)
The group (no the guy on the phone who is sweating profusly is NOT with us!)
Sam and I had to leave brunch 'early' = 4:00pm to head back to the bay to make my big summer purchase... my skateboard! After a quick change of clothes we were off to find me a board as Damian says "everyone needs board, more important than car!" And I was thrilled with my purchase!
Damian and I fell in love with the same board so I compromised and got the shorter version which I think in the long run will be for the best. So after the purchase we had to play around in the parking lot...
Damian is a tad bit better than I
But I'm still learning
And even sam tried
It's been an amazing weekend and now it's time help with Sunday dinner!
Saturday was an adventure to say the least. Caroleene was in town from Alabama so we had to show her a good time. Roberta decided we should head to schlitterbahn in Galveston which was a great idea seeing how it was a thousand degrees! And the lazy river was the only remedy for the heat. Here we are when we decided to finally give up our search for tubes and enter the river before we died in the heat. (Imagine roberta in the group, she was too busy being a great photographer to get into the picture)
Here's the group in the not so lazy, lazy river. Let me tell you right now... I almost lost my bottoms numerous times on those 'lazy river' rapids.
The lazy river was bunches of fun after we stole tubes from small children as they got swept under the water (nobody drowned while we were there... or that I know of) After a few laps we decided to leave the river to go down some slides. But first we had to take a stop in the raining mushroom...
We didn't have time to do too many rides so we decided to take on the two most intense rides in the park and then head back to river which in my eyes was a great idea because I love floating around in a man made river filled with a thousand people I don't know. The rides where awesome though! Here is the park from the top of one of our rides
John and I had to do some Baywatch rescuing in the wave pool and Roberta got some shots as we were searching for the victim
All and all we had a great time floating and sliding and running around the park. Even though there were close to three thousand people in the park and over half of them had less then a year to live because they were so morbidly obese.
On the way home we had to get some Dairy Queen to top the afternoon off and I found my new favorite flavor blizzard. For those of you who don't know I've only gotten M&M blizzards for well... my entire life but now it's all about the reese's cups. Clearly, AMAZING!
After a quick dinner it was time to head downtown for a house warming/goodbye party at Larry's new apartment. After a few cocktails it was time to pull the drums out and start making some lovely music!
Sam and I were just there to say hey but quickly found ourselves surrounds by air force guys who clearly had seen a girls in years. They tried to impress us with their lack of film and literature knowledge and really impressed us their practically none existing international travels. But who can blame them... we were the only two girls there who weren't engaged and well, we were lookin good!
However the evening wasn't all fun and drinks, the night marked our last party with Jeremy (or so I thought) in Houston. I miss him already!
After Larry excused himself to the bathroom to save himself from alcohol poisoning and Sam was finally drunk enough to consider even making out with one of the air force guys and I had grown tired of discussing weddings I decided to gather up my little Sam and head home for the evening.
Sam came barreling into my room at 8am to go search for dolphins (yes the bay currently has dolphins... porpoise if you will) So of course I throw on something decent and head out to the boat to go on a search for the dolphins. Here is sam using her finger as a dolphin finder which actually seems to work because she was the one the spotted the first pod.
We followed these three for a good third minuites which was a ton of fun because she was so excited about the find!
We couldn't stay long because we had to get ready for Sunday brunch with Larry and Jeremy and a few of their friends in town. Of course we get all dressed up for what I thought would be a typical Sunday brunch of elevator music and eggs benedict but boy was I wrong! The bottom floor of the restaurant was pretty typical with a pact bar with hungover guys sucking down bloody mary's. But when our whole party arrived and we were walked upstairs to the patio I was not prepared for the DJ spinning, the shot girls walking around and the dancing that was to ensue after brunch. It was the best going away brunch for Jeremy I could have ever imagined!Larry and Jeremy :-)
The group (no the guy on the phone who is sweating profusly is NOT with us!)
Sam and I had to leave brunch 'early' = 4:00pm to head back to the bay to make my big summer purchase... my skateboard! After a quick change of clothes we were off to find me a board as Damian says "everyone needs board, more important than car!" And I was thrilled with my purchase!
Damian and I fell in love with the same board so I compromised and got the shorter version which I think in the long run will be for the best. So after the purchase we had to play around in the parking lot...
Damian is a tad bit better than I
But I'm still learning
And even sam tried
It's been an amazing weekend and now it's time help with Sunday dinner!
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