Monday - March 17th, 2009
Hung around College Station. Mike went into work for a few hours. Met him for lunch at Pho John’s- a Vietnamese restaurant. VERY GOOD. Ran by Kohl’s to get Inpane some shorts because it was "so hot" in Texas that he couldn't stand his pants.
Also, visited the memorial site for the Aggie Bonfire collapse. Very cool. Not cool in the sense that people died but cool in the memorable sense. The story of the tale of events goes that these college students were building the structure of the bonfire and the structure collapsed on them. One thing we all found really interesting was how the memorial was laid out. It is a large, more like an enormous, circle - the size of the actual structure. The three of us had a hard time comprehending the size of the fire. We later learned that it was the structure that collapsed, not when the fire was going, but when they were building it. The entire memorial was well organized with TONS of motifs and little things to make you feel like you were actually there. If you are curious visit
Aggie Bonfire Memorial . This brochure tales about the motifs and other parts in more details of the memorial used to remember the fallen students.
Went by the George H.W. Bush library. Learned a bit about Bush. Interesting to see the different positions he held before he became president. Seems like a very smart man... but it was the Bush library and well they want to emphasize the great things he did and well not look at some of his mistakes.
Played some Frisbee golf and were going to go to Sodolak’s but we lost track of time and ended up heading out like 20 minutes before they were closing so we had dinner at Fitzwilly’s. It was a bar-like restaurant, higher emphasis on the bar, that had two levels and lots of dead animals on the walls. But what real Texas restaurant does not have dead animals on the wall. Inpane feel in love with two red heads that were playing darts. The love of the red heads became a joke from there on out.
Total Trip Mile: ~960
