Topic: CPE '04
This weekend I was virtually homeless...well okay for Friday night, anyway, I went and saw two movies that had just come out and still had no home to go to. The bishop was throwing a party that I was not invited to, well truth be known, it was actually a dinner at the bishop's that he auctioned off. I decided to make myself scarce for the evening...but I digress. Anyway after the movies and going by to see that the dinner hadn't broken up yet, I decided to just drive and let the spirit guide me.--I know you are probably freaking that I would do something like this with the gas prices as they are, but I don't wanna hear it.--I ended up on a fast highway headed out of Lubbock. I figured hey let's see where this goes. I found a hidden treasure of Lubbock that I hadn't seen or heard of all summer. Down the highway just past the TDCJ prison was a place of entertainment called the Bunny Run/Bunny Ranch. I will let you figure out what kind of place it was, but this was not the treasure. The treasure was just past that down a Farm to Market road. I happened upon a canyon/lake park, but being that it was late and I didn't want to pay money to look at darkness I decided to come back when the sun was up. Sunday came and I decided to make my way back out to the Bunny Run...I mean the canyon/lake park. I used my southern charm on the cute young booth attendant to get in free under the guise of just looking around. Once in, I let the spirit guide me around just for a quick look, to see if it was worth come back with friends and paying. As I drove in, my jaw dropped and I wondered why I hadn't heard about or seen this place before. It was beautiful. There was a lake dammed up within this canyon with two beach/swim areas that I found and plenty of picnicking areas.--I know mom, you would have gone absolute bonkers with a picnic.--Luckily I had my digital camera so that I could take some pictures of the people of Lubbock's response to the city wide declaration that Lubbock was dry. The city may be dry of sellers, but they just line up on the outskirts like Vegas call girls flashing their signs of liquor sales enticing anybody and everybody in for a taste. But I digress again...The scenery was beautiful and the water was so inviting that I almost went home and got my swimming trunks to swim, but decided not to. Here is a picture of one of the views from the other side of the lake.
After this breathtaking drive around the canyon/lake park where I did a little off-roading on some dirt roads, I made my way on a Sunday afternoon carefree drive and ended up on the Texas Tech campus. I thought I would include a picture of a sign that gives the indication that soccer at Tech is the red-headed step child. I will let you figure out why.