Howdy Howdy all! Happy BELTANE/MAYDAY! I only have one exam and one paper left to complete and it's looking like UT AUSTIN might be the place for yours truly! We'll see, I am gonna check it out in a few weeks to look around and talk about the masters program in literary criticism and theory.

Well, well, well. I have been terribly busy in the last month and taking that trip to San Antonio didnt really help anything but it sure was swell!  Okay so a couple of weeks ago me and my roomies went to San Antonio to check on Memphis B's mom's digs and to check on the kitties. We decided that while we were there that we should take in a sight or 2 and so it was onward to Fiesta Texas!

Okay, now generally yours truly is quite the daredevil and I USED to L-O-V-E rollercoasters but I guess in my advanced years my body can't take the excitement like it used to! LOL!  I had vowed not to ride any coasters that were not water rides and I had fully expected to live by that tenet but the roomies and I spotted a mild looking coaster that a ton of kids were boarding and I decided that I should give it a shot, how bad could a coaster called Road-Runner Express really be?

HOLY HANNAH! That freakin thing was out of control. I laugh when I am nervous, upset, scared...ect, so I was giggling myself silly on this ride. Poor Baytown C had to endure my fragmented cackling, she said it was hilarious BTW!

 Now there was this ride that reminds me of what our now gone Astroworld called Thunder River. It was an innertube type deal that took riders along a river rife with rapids and I got soaked! it was FANTASTIC! The best ride by far for me was this log ride that was GUARANTEED to get everyone including bystanders SOAKED to the skin! it was sooooooo GREAT! The roomies decided to get on a monstrosity called the rattler (the ride is 3 minutes and 22seconds! TOO LONG). They looked pretty whipped when they got off but that was nothing compared to how they looked when the got off of this thing:

THE POLTERGEIST is a continuous series of loops at speeds never dropping below 65 mph! I DID NOT get on that thing either.

I did ride the Scooby doo ride and it was a blast, its this motorized car deal and you have to ghost bust by zapping spooks with a ray gun....yeah yeah I'm a big baby! LOL I had to of course get my picture taken with roaming characters, Hey Tweety stole my outfit!

Now here is the part I REALLY enjoyed the most...there is a Bluegrass Variety show that was DIVINE! I forced the roomies to watch it with me, of course they were recooperating from the days antics so they didnt mind. To top it all off there was FUNNEL CAKE! The deadliest and most delicious of all cakes my friends!

The next day it was time for some REAL ghostbusting so we waited until dark and went to this railroad track near a mission that is touted as an area of paranormal activity.  The legend states that a bus load of orphans(of course) in route to a nearby mission was demolished by an oncoming train after being stalled on the tracks. If you stop 4 feet from the tracks and put your vehicle in neutral, phantom children will push you safely over the tracks. As proof that the children helped you, one is to sprinkle the trunk of the vehicle with talc-powder so that the little handprints will be visible! OOOHHHHHH AAAAHHHHHH!

Yeah well, it was pretty darn creepy when the car actually started rolling and actually made it over the tracks. This is due to a geological anamoly (completely scientific in nature) and not paranormal activity. and guess what.......

that's right no tiny finger prints. BAytown C says she still gets the heebie jeebies even if it is real. The inside of the car was chaos during though because we really were spooked by the location and my constant dare for someone to turn around witness the hollow sockets of the dead and mangled ghost kids...I was the only taker and I got a good view of the empty road behind me! LOL!

Well thats all for now folks how about some poetry....here goes....

He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, 
Enwrought with golden and silver light, 
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths 
Of night and light and the half-light, 
I would spread the cloths under your feet: 
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; 
I have spread my dreams under your feet; 
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.--W.B. Yeats

Goddess Bless