Mad Dogs, Englishmen and Us

I have discovered a new definition for strawberry blonde. My hair colour is close enough to blonde during the summer, and my face is certainly a lovely shade of strawberry, thanks to the clear skies and south facing seats at the staduim. We sat in direct sunlight from 10:30 until 1:30 today at the show, and we are getting ready to do it all again tomorrow.

Dutch Boy was brilliant at semi-finals, and has made it into the finals in fourth place, but just less than a fifth of a point behind third. They have beaten the corps in third place before, so there is a possibility that they could get a medal tomorrow!

Thankfully, today's travelling was not as eventful as yesterday's. Although that was great fun, we were more in the mood for smooth and simple today. It is almost a three hour trip to Pasadena from here, and we have to leave at 7:20 to get there on time.

Points of interest: We have now covered all but two small arms of all of the lines on the LA metro system. I am fascinated with the way each stop has been decorated by the community it serves, and have included some pictures. The first one has particular significance to us in light of certain events in our office the day before we left. To the right here are some of the seats at Museum station. Chinatown station is a big colourful pagoda - and most of the others are decorated with local artwork, sculptures done by local kids, weird sheet metal heads, and all manner of other things. Including, in some cases grafitti.

Tonight, we ate at our neighbourhood restaurant where we are now on a first name basis with a good percentage of the staff, and then walked over to Walmart for supplies for tomorrow - like sun hats, sun screen, and battery operated fans. It was only 90 degrees in Pasadena today. Tomorrow, they tell us, it is going to be HOT!