Santa Catalina Explorer

I'm now half way through a 3 day weekend and its going rather well. Yesterday was a kick back, lazy day, this morning i went biking in the Santa Catalina Mountains to the north of Tucson and tomorrow im off out to a Pizza Hut all-you-can-eat lunch with my house mates for just $5! Looking forward to the ice-cream.

The Santa Catalina bike ride was amazing though - it was about a 40mile round trip i did from our apartment travelling North East and onto the Catalina Highway which eventually windes its way up to the top of Mount Lemmon at 9500ft from the Tucson basin floor at 2400ft. I biked to the mountain base and then a couple of miles up. The scenery was amazing although its going to take me a few months to build up the fitness to do the 80 mile round trip to the top! Theres plenty of photos in the album so check them out including my new "friend" warning about the high risk of forest fires (yes, even in November!).

This coming week promises to be pretty good aswell. I need to start on my Geology of the Solar System project involving modelling the Martian North Polar region, im off to a Wildcat (The UofA team) football game on thursday evening - the final home game of the season so it should be a good atmosphere. I'm not a American Football (aka. puffy Rugby) fan but its gotta be done, especially since its the university team (who admittedly arent going particularly well this season).

And finally, the news! Spain's royal family has the right idea when it comes to politics. At a press conference he spoke sternly to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez infront of the camera's saying; "Why don't you shut up!". I guess they dont get along that well! And from western Germany. A man recently had a visit from the Police after his car was found abandoned on a petrol station forecourt. It turned out he had filled up his car with petrol, paid the cashier and proceeded to walk home! How he didn't notice his car was missing from around his body i dont know!
S'all for now folks