critical mass/baton rouge and other adventures

[nibot]

Critical Mass on Friday was wonderful. The weather was superb, and the turnout huge: with something like 200 riders*, this was the largest Critical Mass I've yet ridden (after San Diego, Rochester, and Los Angeles). The ride was also remarkably well-behaved, staying together, corking beautifully, and even sticking to a single lane. (Southern politeness?) The ride ended at a house party very near my own house. The place was great, with a live band inside, and a trampoline and tire swing and a huge oak tree with a rope ladder in the backyard. I went with Kate and we both made some new friends (non-physicists!). These new friends took us to Chelsea's. It rained on us as we drank iced tea and ate delicious food. The new friends also responded enthusiastically to suggestion to go camping on the Gulf Islands.

On Saturday Nic, Kate, and I went out to the Festival International de Louisiane. Highlights included: eating delicious paella, running into our new friends from critical mass multiple times, kate finding a group of jugglers (she was ecstatic), seeing the Vidrine family band at the lovely but unfortunately named Cafe Artmosphere, and ice cream at Nic's place afterwards.

* nearly all LSU students, as far as I could tell.

Comments

[cherryspecial.livejournal.com]

Critical Mass is great... lots of my friends go religiously, but I'm usually at work. I can't believe it's the biggest... that's amazing. I'm moving to Charlotte, NC soon, so I'm hoping to get more involved in their critical mass. I hope I'm not disappointed.

I hope you grabbed a bike calendar- there's always lots of events on them.