Friday Coffee Date
Good morning! Time to grab a delicious hot beverage- I’m back to my regular Earl Grey tea- and have a little chat. The first thing I would ask you, if we were having coffee (tea) together, is, how was the eclipse for you? I saw several people posting about their experiences. I have to admit it was a non-event for me. We were only at 50% totality, and I had to work. BUT! My son had a great time. On Sunday afternoon he went to a concert by the Waco Symphony, where they played all space-themed pieces, like Star Wars, Star Trek and Theme from ET. Then at night he went to an “eclipse party” which I suspect was just a regular college party, pretending to be eclipse-related. On Monday, it started our cloudy in Waco, but luckily the clouds cleared by afternoon, and they experienced almost four minutes of totality. He said it was very cool but hard to get good pictures. I realized I’m 58 years old and I’ve NEVER experienced a total eclipse! Apparently I’ll have to wait until 2045, and the good news is that Florida will be in the path of totality! The bad news is, we would like to be living elsewhere by then. Sigh. Always in the wrong place, wrong time. Speaking of Waco! This August will be my fourth, and final, road trip to Texas with my son. We started his freshman year at Baylor, and it’s become a tradition for us to drive to school every August. I’m calling this “The Ultimate Waco Adventure.” It won’t be my very last trip- we’ll be going for his graduation of course, but that will probably be a quick flight there and back, because it will be a very busy time of year. That won’t be a trip for sightseeing. I have many thoughts and feelings on this subject (HOW is it possible that he will be graduating in a year???) but I’ll save that for another post. For now, I’m planning my Ultimate Adventure. I took Elisabeth’s advice from this post, and googled “hidden gems in Waco.” Some pretty interesting things came up! My favorite is the Beer Spa: “Pivovar’s unique beer spa experience consists of soaking in a bubbly bath of beer and an herbal beer mixture. The spa takes place in tubs made from copper and is based on bathing in natural extracts that are used in the brewing of Czech Beer- hops, brewers yeast, and malted barley. You are invited to pair your experience with a Pivovar beer flight, Czech wine flight, or a cheese board from our restaurant. Drinking beer during the spa experience will promote mental relaxation.” I actually had to check to make sure this wasn’t a joke. I mean- what?…why?… While simultaneously sipping beer and taking a bath in it sounds intriguing, I’ll probably skip this experience. Mainly because the beers are all Lagers- now, if I could bathe in an IPA, that would be a different story! Have you experienced a total solar eclipse? Have you ever heard of a beer spa???