This week is mostly featuring Downtown. It seems strange because I ended up downtown Houston three times this week so I now know my way in and a little around, well as long as I don’t try anything new! On Monday I agreed to judge posters as the AAPG student Expo that was held at a huge convention centre downtown. Some of the posters and students presenting them were very good. I got a free dinner out of it and handed in my judging forms - I don’t know which student won in the end I will have to find out!
On Thursday night we went to Discovery Green to sit on the lawn and watch a Texan band called the Texas Tornados from San Antonio. It was really pleasant weather - autumn must be coming! And we set up our chairs with Cecelia, Eric and Laura. The beer queue was enormous so poor Stuart was sent off to stand in it. The band was ok and for a free night out it was certainly worth the effort, but next time we will be more organised and take a picnic for our tea!
Another feature of the week was the Harvest Moon. Having read
great things about what we were going to see we planned to head to the George Bush reservoir for open space and a good view of both the sun setting and the moon rising. "Sept. 22, 2010: For the first time in almost 20 years, northern autumn is beginning on the night of a full Moon. The coincidence sets the stage for a "Super Harvest Moon" and a must-see sky show to mark the change of seasons. The action begins at sunset on Sept 22nd, the last day of northern summer. As the sun sinks in the west, bringing the season to a close, the full Harvest Moon will rise in the east, heralding the start of fall. The two sources of light will mix together to create a kind of 360-degree, summer-autumn twilight glow that is only seen on rare occasions." Well it wasn’t as clear as one would have liked but the Harvest Moon is when the sun and the moon come up and down at the same time an
d so the moon gets really bright and because it comes very close to the earth should also appear very big. The clouds were just in the wrong place for us so we saw a nice enough sunset with the sun highlighting the storm clouds in the sky, but only saw the moon when it rose above the band of clouds. It didn’t seem any bigger to us and pretty unimpressive as you see by my little white dot on the photo! So I don’t know what all the fuss was about but apparently that was the thing for once every 20 years!! The next day going to work however, had a spectacular sunrise over downtown. Apologies for the quality of the picture 
that was through the office window, but I hope you can see how nice it was! (Better than our Harvest moon experience!).On Saturday I was up early for our usual run and then I was
meeting Laura downtown (see there again) for yoga on the lawn at Discovery Green. Yes we were outside between the skyscrapers with everyone watching us. It was fun for the experience but I didn’t think the yoga was anything to rave about. I like my classes at the gym better. Laura had a lady in front of her that was wearing way too short shorts and it was most unpleasant during downward facing dog! 
I found a new way Mum and Dad should decorate the golf buggy - just look at this one that was busy moving stuff around!
I have finally got rid of the fluff monster, aka my cheap Ikea white shag pile rug. I was fed up of chasing the white dust bunnies aroun
d the house with our terrible vacuum cleaner. In its place Stuart and I went and found a cow! It even has its branding number - how cool. It is very soft and currently smells a bit animal like but it says that should go away in a couple of days! I hope the cockroaches don’t get attracted to it!
The final excitement for
the week, well more for Stuart, we went to see Rush playing live in the Woodland Pavilion. The place was packed with all the seats and grass area covered in people, apparently it holds up to 17,000. Since Stuart was on the fan emailing list he 
bought tickets early on and got seats towards the front. We were off to the side a bit but they weren’t too bad. They had some issues with sound when it started off but they eventually got that sorted - however that did not deter the many fans from shouting and jumping around. We got home at midnight with our ears buzzing! My third Rush concert down :)
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