It was about time!
Saturday was a beautiful day, nice, sunny but breezy too...yesterday it
got kinda chilly, and was chilly (9 degrees C) all day, so I was
freezing while visiting the Texas State Fair, and during the bike ride
at night.
Last night it went down to about 6 C I think, and this morning it said
3 C around 8am!!! Wow! So i finally got to break in my new fancy jacket
that had been sitting in my closet for way too long ever since I bought
it online when I was in Florida: it had never been used!
But back to the fair...it was a little bummer as we didn't get to see
the country/rural side of it: the stuff we hung around was kind of
normal for a fair (rides, cotton candy, ...), the food kind of gross
and overpriced...as one of my students put it, the fair is the place
for real Americans with a think regional accent where they serve food
that not even the animals would eat! (It was much funnier in her
not-so-broken Italian!). So the car exhibits was pretty much just a
bunch of huge pickup trucks, all about being the "-est" at something
(the roomiest, the biggest, the toughest, the tallest,...), although
actually none of them were good at anything worth mentioning (gas
mileage, safety,...). Almost anybody ever uses those things for what
they're supposed to be used anyway, so who cares I guess...
I posted some more pictures in the "Dallas" album in my online photos.