Adventure!

Yesterday we went on an adventure. You see, we had to prove that Texas is not in a recession. We were supposed to go to Port Aransas with some friends this weekend, but stuff happened, and we didn't. Which is actually ok, because it turned out that a storm came through and it's been cold and rainy. I mean, I think it's gorgeous and would have had fun running on the beach, but the other people we planned to go with are from warmer places and would have been frozen.

Where did we go, then? To the outlet malls! There are two giant outlet malls right next to each other in San Marcos (45 miles away.) There is basically nothing else near them. A road runs between them, and if you look one way, there is the freeway with a gas station on the other side of it. The other direction has.... nothing. Nothing, nothing, as far as the eye can see. Kinda cool, really. Well, as we arrived, the car decided it wanted to be very hot. Dan turned the car off immediately, and we pushed it into a parking space. We were worried since the coolant low light had come on a couple of times. But it always went away, so we meant to feed it more coolant, but forgot. We let it cool down and went off to do our shopping for like 8 hours, planning to get coolant later, and then had dinner because we were hungry.

We came back to the car at 10:30, dropped off our left-overs, and went to the gas station. We bought a stupid gallon of coolant for $15. Walked back to car, started pouring in, tank was filling up, got it full, Dan stopped. We watched it slowly go down a little, and figured it was going into the engine. Then it started to go down faster, and Dan was worried that it had gotten so low. And it continued, so I asked, "are you sure it's not just pissing that all onto the ground?" Yes, yes it was in fact. Green anti-freeze, all over the ground. (Sorry animals and water supply, we didn't mean it!) Well, the basic point is that we got home 3 hours later after a tow truck came to get us. So we got to buy nice things from the stores and help them out and then we got to give the nice tow truck guy some work to get it to a place where we can help out other people. We had the car taken to a repair shop that we've been to before, where the people were really nice. Only down side is that they're not open at all on the weekends. Monday we shall find out what they can tell us about it.

Let's be positive here! Look how cute my new Austin-weight jacket is!

Is it a short trench coat? No! Is it a sweater? No! Well, sort of. It's a heavy-weight jersey knit cut like a trench coat. I think it's super cool.