Houston - November 1st.

Email me Mr Diddy

shewolfnm at yahoo

Im working on being a sponsor for this party and if I cant be, then I more than likely will not go... but that doesnt mean I wont spend the weekend in Houston..

Mac, I used to have your email address but now I cant find it.

will you email me too? we can arrange things by email or phone

Done.

Well, finally! I can't believe that I've known shewolf online for four years and we didn't meet until today. And I hadn't seen PDiddy and Mrs. PDiddy in five years - equally amazing.

Shewolf, thank you so much for making the effort to get us all together. I hope your trip home was uneventful.

a tiny bit more detail would be nice

Yaaaaaaaay!

SheW..... sure you woulda had a fab time.... hey... does your whizzy new laptop have skype on it yet girl.... download it for free.... should be able to talk PC to PC FOC..... let me know hun... so need to hear ya voice again - seeings as I only listened to your answerphone! HA!

Hey Mac... PDiddies.... awwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... so wished I could met ya!!!!! One day

The four of us met for lunch at an excellent Mexican restaurant.

Shewolf took a couple of pictures, in case proof is required.

I'll let her tell you about her experiences in Houston.

Im home.
No more flat tires. (grrr)
I am feeling quite painful though. I slept on an old spring mattress last night and by the end of today, it is starting to catch up to me .

Anyway, my weekend was actually quite wonderful. Though the party was not. It was just this side of a flop....... well.. I shouldnt say that. Its purpose ( raising money for the childrens burn unit) worked well.
Everything that was supposed to happen I assume went off with out a hitch.
People had fun
Got drunk
Had more fun..

I just couldn't get into it.. So I cut out early. Spent the evening enjoying a nice, quiet room. Big bath tub, large bed, and QUIET. Wow.. I love quiet.

Woke up at 5:30 , walked across the street to whataburger and got some coffee. Decided to go to the beach.
So I went back into my room , packed my stuff, opened up mapquest... took a peek.. then left. :-)

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Most people consider Gulls rats... or pests.
I frankly just fell in love with them. They are really handsome birds and quite amusing. I spent a lot of time just sitting in wet sand watching them. They did not run from me.. in fact.. with in seconds of getting to the beach, I had one hoovering right in front of my face for the better part of a minute.. wondering if I had any food.





Then I sat on one of the rock piles where locals were fishing and listened to them talk about the storm that took down Galveston and how they were growing to hate having to fish so much.
A few spoke to me, but I did not want to ask them about the storm so I just listened.

I also spent some time driving through Galveston, photographing the destruction of the city.

I have to say I have never EVER seen so much.. I dont know.. ...It looked like a war zone..

I will post more photos tomorrow.
I am completely beat.

I had lunch with the Diddies and Mac.. which was the highlight of my whole weekend frankly. That and the beach.
There is nothing in the world that compares with the beach.

Then had a flat and thank goodness for friends(!) was able to get it repaired and get back home .

So here I sit, eating a piece of amish friendship bread which Ian finished for me while i was gone and going through some photos.
I promise I will finish posting and putting up photos tomorrow

Ok.
I wrote most of this up this morning so forgive me for the repeats, but i wanted to get an explanation along with the photos . As beautiful as Galveston was, it really threw me for a loop.

I got to spend the weekend in Houston /Galveston -all by myself- .

I loved it and I am looking forward to doing it again. It cost me exactly 100.00 for two full days.. plus gas back and forth. Which amounted to a little over one tank.

I got to go to the beach, I got to have lunch with some friends, and best of all I got to do things how I wanted, and when I wanted.
Even the people around me reacted differently to me. I got smiles, hellos , assistance.. you name it! I had a wonderful time.

The beach was very calming and the water very cleansing. I dont remember a day where I felt that calm. It has been a looooooong time.

here are some of the photos I took.
I fell in love with the SeaGulls. Some people think of them as pests.. and I can see that. They are like pigeons. Shitting everywhere.. eating anything. HA
But I think they are really handsome birds and amusing to watch






They are not scared of you. They will land on your shoulder, walk around your feet ... I just.. LOVE those birds!
Here they are .. a group of them that walked by me.. as if I was just not walking FAST ENOUGH :lol and stopped a few feet in front of me to bask in some sun.
You can see some of their little foot prints in the sand where they trekked around me.





Here is my car, parked up on the end of the city.



Its quite cool.
ALL of the north south roads of Galveston just dead end right to the water.
There is one road that goes along the end of the state and that is how they painted that wall.
You can park any where along it, and just hop down that wall, or walk down the stairs and you are right there at the edge of the state with nothing but beach to look at.




Then once you bounce down that wall.. and you turn around... waves, water, sand, shells, the sound of water...
It is like turning around to face another dimension.
The waves were over my head what seemed only feet away...
But by the time they hit the shore, they were only at my knees





Then, while you are walking around, if you look down deep into the cracks of the rocks and behind boulders.. you see this stuff



Growing everywhere.
It looks awesome.. feels very soft for being something rather sharp. Almost like it is covered with some kind of moss that isnt big enough, or doesnt carry enough color for you to see... but it smells something horrid!

Then the Pelicans came out.
They fly in almost a straight line.. one right behind the other.
It seems as though they require the first two birds to be the lead birds and if they are off in any way, the whole line breaks up and they will fly in a circle until the first two regain their place and pace.. then take off again.





These birds are enormous! I never knew how big they really were. One landed on the shore.. quite a ways from me.. yet still looked like he could have stood with his head up past my bumm in height. Possibly weighing in around 50lbs or so. THEY ARE HUGE!





Then these tiny little tittering birds showed up. They squeak like doggie toys and run SUPER fast. I think they catch little crabs.
they keep a wide berth around people




( i have much more to post, flickr is just slow catching up to my uploads)

the devastation of Galveston is still such that people are having a hard time surviving.

I sat on a rock peer and listened to them talk about having to fish for food.

glad to have ya back, Wolfie.

Cool pics...

BRILLIANT photos She... simply stunning.

Im told that this barge has been stuck since hurricane Ike.

Is that true? I honestly dont know.