Tropical Storm John

D and I have been monitoring hurricane (now tropical storm) John for the past few days. It barely missed Loreto and some of the houses in Loreto Bay have 3 feet of water in them. Since it rarely rains in Loreto, all the Loreto Bay casas have open courtyards, allowing water easily into the homes. The good news is that we've read on one of the blogs of people living down there is that the earthblock homes keep a lot of the noise out and are making it through the storm just fine ... there's just the flooding to deal with.

It's kind of interesting to read the blogs about people living down there. One family that is building a custom home has moved down while it's being built and put their three kids into school down there. Another family, whose mother's blog I read, lives down there about 6 months out of the year and is living in Summit County (in Colorado) for 4 months right now (original home in Kansas City). They have a daughter in 1st or 2nd grade. For me, it shows me you can choose to live a different type of lifestyle no matter what your life situation is - typical suburbia is not the only option.

Yesterday was a pretty lazy day. Other than working out, we did a whole lot of nothing: eating, napping, watching TV, doing crosswords.

We haven't yet made it to the gym today, but I did walk the dogs since I didn't want to risk missing another day. I walked them both attached to my dog-walking belt (via carbiners). It works fairly well, but it's actually an advantage to let Eddie edge ahead slightly because it picks up some of the slack on the leashes and avoids entanglement. I wish we had flat areas near us because I think I'd like to try rollerblading with Eddie again.

Finally, the Game Show Network - which we've never before watched - is airing the first season of The Amazing Race. Since we didn't start watching until Vic convinced us to give it a whirl for the third season (she was really right on that one!), we're TiVo-ing it. We do know who won, but have no idea of the places of the others, so should still be entertaining.