Tae Kwon Do & Two O'Clock

This weekend was another busy one. Yesterday was a tae kwon do touranment at David Vincent's Martial Arts & Fitness ...

. . . then tailgating at LSU, which is always a good time . . .

. . . then a good night's sleep after a big win.

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Sunday was a leisurely day. I got up, walked the pooch, and loaded the kayak for an easy paddle at Two O'Clock Bayou. Simply loading the boat was the first adventure as there was a small black widow spider nesting in one of my tie-down straps. Shortly after getting in the boat, my foot peg broke off. But neither of these was fatal to the trip: I left the spider where he was (I wonder if he's still there!) and the foot peg could be fixed at home. And a-paddling I went.

Two O'Clock Bayou meanders through moss-laden cypress trees full of gigantic golden silk spiders, or so people know them as banana spiders around here. There were also lots of egrets, a couple of herons, and a few others birds I couldn't identify, all amongst the stunning metalic blue dragonflies. I only saw one snake, but - unfortunately - no alligators.

All in all, though, a pretty darn good weekend.