Woo, Second Day and I'm Still Sunburn-Free!

Also, my feet don't hurt!

We're camped out in the Community Coffee House on the ground floor of the Pan Am building. Mmm, chicory coffee. Just what I needed - a new caffeine obsession, whee!


Today was a lot of fun - we worked with an AmeriCorp volunteer at the City Park.

(Which also means driving through the mid-city sector - which looks precisely like that generic functional bit of every city I've ever been in. Car dealerships, fast food joints, churches, Wal-Mart, etc. The Home Depot, though - man, I've never seen so many day-laborers like that. Not East of Albuquerque, at least. It's a heads-up to how much of the city is still unemployed - and possibly how much of a call there is for semi-professional construction work. Either way, wow.)

The point of the day was wetlands restoration of the Big Lake (a man-made estuary). We planted bulrushes and cord grass, which grow in deeper water, and pas palum, which grows along the shore. I'll have to come back in a few years and see how it does! There were, as usual, shenanigans. And most people fell in the lagoon. Rubber overalls that come up to your armpits are hard to move in! Especially in six inches of water over two feet of squishy, clay-rich mud; it was unexpectedly much more fun than I ever could have predicted.

Around 5:30 or so, we wandered over to Lafayette Park - there's a Wednesday in the Square sort of festival, presumably every week, and it was pretty awesome. There was a live rock band, whose name I have yet to look up, with a female vocalist/violinist - they played Journey, and Jefferson Airplane, and Charlie Daniels' "Devil Went Down to Georgia," which was incredible.

They also had slushie/daquiri things, and ginger-marinated soy-basted shrimp, which were much more exciting.

Well, that ended up being more straight-forward than most of my posts. Huh. *waves*