Last Weekend: Out and about!

We played, we biked, we hit up the Summer Arts Festival, we saw some flooding at the casino. All in a good weekend! Not sure if it was my allergies, but I was having serious trouble catching my breath. Not only while biking, but even long afterwards. Anyway, riding out at Swanson was a good time. Awesome job THOR on the new entrance and exit. Thanks to Todd and Cody for waiting for me. I kept messing around with the settings on my Go Pro. If I were to have some input on designing the Go Pro, I would ask that they make each mode have a certain number of beeps. There are about 5 different modes when you hit the main button. Problem is that you can't tell what mode you are on unless you stop to look at the LCD front panel. So maybe one beep on video mode, two for the still camera mode, etc. With my old Canon Elph on top of my helmet, I knew exactly how to switch between camera and video without having to look.

 

These pictures of us at Fox and Hound are all from Kristen's camera 

With that said and out of the way, I STILL didn't get the desired angle with the Chesty Harness! Still pointed down too low, all I see are my legs pedaling and the tops of the handlebars in the videos. Next time I will get it right! Hopefully.

Ummm...no explanation needed for this!

After biking Swanson, Jena and I hit up The Summer Arts Festival downtown. Some pretty cool artwork, photographs, and sculptures. Definitely gave me some ideas, most of the styles would be pretty easy to do. Lots of pieces centered around bicycling.

Todd and Cody coming out of the north side prarie loop of Swanson 

I hear the chirping of a bird... 

Love the green plush prarie with the singletrack trail built into it! 

Then we cruised on past the Santa Lucia Festival, crossed the pedestrian bridge, and made our way over to Harrah's. The flooding is a sight to see over there. Nothing like the aerial photographs that I've seen floating around on the emails, but bad enough.

Some pics from downtown and Harrah's:

Click the picture and check out this guys' artwork. All photographs, manipulated to look like paintings. He said he's a big fan of biking and his artwork shows it!

Kinda freaky looking

 The trail was closed north of the pedestrian bridge. Kind of by the waterfront condos.

 Hmm...I need to pull an old picture and see where the old water level was on the bridge. This is the June 2011.

This picture I scrounged up from 2008. Not exactly the same view, but you get the picture. In the 2011 picture, the water covers the ground at the far end. Click and compare the two. Quite a difference!

The wildlife was having a good time!

Harrah's parking lot. 

I had heard that they took out the glass on this side of the building. Yup, glass gone! 

Remember when we took this route through Harrah's parking garage in the wintertime?

I keep on bumping into this guy