bachanon Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 i came down to the i-fest with a friend from the woodlands today. we parked at hermann park and road the new and improved choo choo over to the light rail line. we took the light rail to downtown and walked over to the international festival. we met some people on the light rail who were headed to the george r. brown for a book thing. $10 and you get a grocery sack full of as many books as you like. after we exhausted the offerings of the i-fest (didn't take too long) we walked over to the grb for the book thing but didn't find a bag full of anything we wanted........or, anything we wanted to carry around for the rest of the day. we stopped at the grove for mimosas and a cheese platter.....love that cheesy girl buff from silsbee! headed back to the light rail and jumped off at hermann park. walked the promenade back to the car. then, baba yega's, mimosas & sandwiches. i know you inner loopers are in touch with the fun of living downtown, but for me and my friend, it was an amazing day. the woods has nothing on living in the loop. i'm seriously thinking about moving in to town. what were you up to this beautiful day? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
20thStDad Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Damn I forgot all about the i-Fest!I felt like crap around lunch, took some medicine, watched baseball, passed out for a bit, woke up feeling great so I did yardwork for a few hours. It was good times. I was surprised at how dry my yard was after the past few days, I guess that proves my drainage setup is working very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bachanon Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 i-fest is next weekend too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I was surprised at how dry my yard was after the past few days, I guess that proves my drainage setup is working very well.drop 10" of water on your yard and get back with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 i know you inner loopers are in touch with the fun of living downtown, but for me and my friend, it was an amazing day. the woods has nothing on living in the loop. Ha! Me and 20thStreetDad acted like Woodlanders and worked in the yard, while bachanon acts like an innerlooper at all the festivals and such. Somehow, I feel like I wasted my innerloopiness by only doing yardwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchtastic Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Mostly I sat on my porch reading, and drinking tequila and OJ. My one chore was a load of whites. It was a damn nice day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Did some laundry, went through a month's worth of mail, paid bills, and then off to work for a while to work on some presentations I have to do this week. Woo hoo! Does that sound like fun or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelguy_73 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 We met some good friends from Cypress at Discovery Green for lunch and an afternoon of watching their two girls (2 and 4) running around the park. They absolutely loved it, you would have thought they had never seen a park before. We hung out with some cheap wine from Lakehouse while the kids played in the water, at the playground, at the listening vessels, even took some sort of aerobics class out on the lawn. The girls were asleep before they got to the car.Man, I love that park. Now if we could just cancel summer weather! We made the comment more than once about this probably being one of the last nice weekends until October. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxmulder Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Am i the only one that worked? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
native_Houstonian Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Utilized the new Heights bike path along Nicholson and then put the calories back in my system with a great meal at Dry Creek. Of course, it was all made better by the good company I was with! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travelguy_73 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Now if you would have asked us about LAST Sunday, I would have said that we spent a few hours riding the Columbia Tap bike trail from Eastwood to Hermann Park, with a nice detour through Riverside Terrace. Now that they finally finished the all of the connections between the trail and the streets, it is a real pleasure to ride on. And the section through third ward is like a time warp with all of the boarded up shotgun houses.Next weekend is JazzFest in NO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houstonian in Iraq Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 We were heading out to Galveston, but the traffic on I-45 was really bad that we decided to take the kids to the zoo instead. I guess I should of check to see if there was any freeway closures before I left. We spent an hour on the freeway and still hadn't left Houston before we decided to change our plans.The zoo was crowded. I had to park next to HMNS. Loads of people out, we still enjoyed ourselves....it was very nice day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Native Montrosian Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Did the laundry I couldn't do yesterday - I have a thing about white cotton shirts and like to hang them outside in the sun after washing to get that extra bit of bleaching in, plus they pick up the scent from the now-blooming star jasmine nearby. Pups were half-crazy after all the rain, so they and my husband got nice long walks. Wound up with a trek to Firkin & Phoenix to watch most of the Penguins game and just get out - I don't do relentless rain well, though I'll say drainage seems to have improved in Oak Forest since Alison. During the lull, it only took about an hour before I was seeing visible signs of runoff. I'm not counting the gutter-clogged day after Ike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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