today, saturday night. went to zilker park today which is connected to barton springs, which is a river where people can swim. it was awesome because first we went to long john silver's to pay our lunch with coupons, and talk bathroom talk at the table with aaron and his friend jimmy, and then zilker park was a totally spontaneous event.

and since it was spontaneous we didn't bring swimsuits or anything so we couldn't swim, but the water looked so nice and cold and clear, with small waterfalls made by the rocks in the creek. so not being able to swim didn't stop us from taking off our shoes and socks and wading around in the water. it was the best feeling ever, and not even the tiny little shard-rocks at the bottom cutting our feet up ruined it. i cannot describe how tempted i was to just go swimming fully dressed. ok but what did stop us (for a while at least) was this snake swimming in the water. this was funny because first, aaron saw a stick and told us it was a snake, and i got scared and got out of the water, and jimmy thought this was funny. five minutes later aaron was like, "there's a snake, seriously, its right over there" and both me and jimmy didn't believe him. well, turns out he was right. it was this skinny snake about a foot and three inches long that swam with its head sticking out of the water, it was so gross. so yeah, i stayed out of the water for a while until my fear of the squiggly snake was overcome by wanting to feel the cold creek water again...but it was so cool, the minnows come really close to your feet and aren't scared at all.

then after we got out of the river we walked around the park and explored and stuff and ran into these five high school boys who were diving into the river from a rope swing. it was crazy--where would that ever happen in concrete, flat, dry houston?? it was like living in a small town, where no one is too self conscious to talk to a stranger. anyways, at that moment, watching those boys jumping into the deep, green, hazy river, i decided that i definitely want to live in austin forever. another random pretty moment was when we were under this bridge. on the bridge were cars, of course, but we were under it so we couldn't see the cars, they couldn't ruin the moment. we stood under that bridge, it was all sandy under there and there was this collapsed concrete thing with these rusted metal connectors all sticking out of it, and so it was urban, but when you looked up, at the concrete bottom of the bridge that was over us, you could see all thousands of light shards reflected off the water from the river, just dancing and changing. it was so pretty it hurt. yeah, it was like a mix between some urban ghetto setting off a rancid video mixed with...the movie "a river runs through it."

hmm yeah so that was my day. pretty nice, right?

tomorrow i am doing hw, and going to a pawn shop in the afternoon to see about a bike. i have been trying to get one of those little trick bikes b/c they are so small and cool and easy to handle. yeah i got permission from my mom to spend $50...so i gotta haggle.