Well, I realized there have been some city stories that I haven't shared yet! One being that I tried to go rollerblading in the city a few weeks ago. I have been trying to find parks in the city. Someone had warned me about a park called "Fair Park" that was in fact not a park at all. Well, they said that it wouldn't be what I thought it would be. However, I googled rollerblading in Dallas and this park came up with a review from someone stating that it was a good park to try! So, luckily my roommate and I both own rollerblades so we gave it a shot. After all the park is not far from my apt. On a nice hot cloudless Sunday after noon we ventured over to Fair Park. When we entered the area I thought hmm..surely there is more to it than this. It was obviously a large place. There were multiple gates but nothing really green to speak of. I was hopefully stubborn and thought well there must be a nice place to rollerblade because the internet says so! Upon more investigating we just kept driving from parking lot to parking lot! "Fair Park" is where the Texas Sate Fair is held so there is a ton of park-ing..but no real "park." It suddenly dawned on me that the miles and miles of hot, concrete, parking lots that we were driving through must be what the review on the internet was talking about. I was immediately amused and disappointed at the same time. Someone had a different definition of park than I do. And all of that concrete was hot!! Nevertheless in all of our time spent investigating we figured it was as good as place as any so geared up and bladed for a little while from concrete slab to concrete slab. Welcome to the city!
Another amusing city tidbit; On Thursday on my way from school I saw some pigeons taking a bath in a pothole in the street. The pothole was not more than a foot by a foot and those crazy pigeons were jumping in and out of the pothole to dodge cars in between quick dips. Life in the city can be rough!
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