Boats and Floats (I can rhyme!)

For Thanksgiving, I headed down to San Antonio to watch the annual boat caroling/boat parade. Man, I seriously love the riverwalk. I seriously did not love the fact that the city was charging just to go down to it for the parade. We seriously have to pay to watch a parade in a public space that's already banking from heavily sponsored floats (I saw Santa pop up out of the ceiling of the Raddison Hotel float...)? It actually wound up being for the better, since nearly all the spectators opted to watch from the bridges above, and I wound up looking for more original things to photograph.

P.S. The thought of San Antonio always makes me laugh because I had a friend in elementary school who would never fail to yell, in all seriousness, "REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!" as she led the charge to grab the first round of dodge balls from the center line. I had some seriously awesome childhood friends.

Belly Flop Fun!

Ok, so I laughed really hard the first time I saw this. And even harder the second time. And by the 5th time (yes, I was on a laughing roll, I suppose) I had one of my ever-so-effervescent epiphanies. I seriously feel like this cat right now. Well, pause while he's in mid air. I haven't hit the floor yet... but my point being that I've worked up a lot of nerve and I'm going for it (finishing school, getting my foot on the first step of the career ladder [note within a note: I hate the "career ladder" analogy, but this whole post is my own analogy for something... I can only have so many analogy-epiphanies a day, so give me a break] etc.) and I know that I'm trying so hard for something that I'm pretty sure I'm not going to reach ALL my goals. But I like being ambitious. And I'm still going to find the whole experience entertaining, even when I hit the floor. Oh, and there's that giddy little adrenaline rush mid-air.



Also, I think this about the 8th time I've seen this now. And it's still funny.