Because I Promised

I don't much feel like writing right now.  Especially considering (a) it's after midnight, Eastern time (which I'm still technically on) and (b) my hotel room must be vacated by 4:30 in the AM in order to catch my ride to the airport tomorrow.  Add in the fact that my belly is full of fan-flippin'-tastic mexican, and there should only be one thing on your to-do list: S-L-E-E-P.

But I promised.  Or at least said I'd try.  And so I'm giving you a try, here.  I've tried to get pictures of the beautiful mountains that I've been looking at for the past two days.

And, to mirror my own pathetic "try", the mountains seem to have decided to only give it a mediocre effort to look good. [sort of like me, in the post below, ha!]

It started out much like the day before, cloudy up top, not a whole lot of light.  No biggie, yesterday turned out beautiful.  I had faith, I believed that it would clear up.  That, now that I had my camera with me, heck, it might be even more lovely than the day before!

And then it did this.

And then it looked like this.

And that's the end of the story.  My best pictures are trapped in my head.  Feel free to insert some moral of the story here.  Perhaps something about "misplaced faith" or "being prepared to seize an opportunity".  Whatever floats your boat.  I've got nothing tonight.



I will end by saying this: the day/trip was far from a total bust.  Professionally, I learned and experienced a lot.  Met some great people, got a clear direction for work that needs to be done and I'm pretty sure I can actually do.  That was great.

And speaking of great, in case I ever get to come back here, or in case you do, this place is also great:

Known for their mole sauce (which I didn't have), this little number is so so so delicious.

And, for the grande finale - slash - speaking of delicious little numbers...

Classic CJ smile.

I can't say enough nice things about this girl.  Not only does CJ photograph ridiculously well, she is a fast and true friend, funny & kind.  It was my good fortune to get sent to a city where she is accessible from.  The icing on the proverbial cake.  Except I'm fairly certain she's the cake, too.

Something about having it and eating it too,

TFW