Let's not talk about how crap the past 24 hours have been, or how the next are going to be. Instead, here's some good news: I got my route information for the Main Street Drag. This is the daytime event where we drive around in small groups visiting Houston Schools. This year the staging area is at the zoo, which sounds cool except that of course we won't actually get to see the zoo.
Undersea Mah Jongg is in group 4, the Eels, and we're going to: Grady Middle School, St. Theresa, The Lighthouse Center for the Blind, River Oaks Elementary, St Luke's School. It sounds like a great lineup. No high schools, which is good because the high school kids tend to be too worried about looking cool to risk any enthusiasm about the art cars. And the Lighthouse Center was on our route in 2004, that was a wonderful experience.
Now, the bad news: the event starts earlier this year. In previous years we had to be there at 9 and we rolled at 9:30. Which schedule was repeated on the website. But the email I just got says that the lineup begins at 8, and the first group rolls at 8:45, with subsequent groups leaving every 5 minutes. We're in group 4, which means we'll be leaving at 9:05. (And unlike many art car events, my experience of the Main Street Drag is they roll exactly when they say they're going to roll.) We have the Art Car Ball the night before, so getting out to the zoo that early won't be easy. Still, the staging area is our first opportunity to see the cars in daylight. So I do want to get there early enough to see the cars and take some pictures. Plus, they usually have some kind of free breakfast, even if it's just bagels.
The email included the CC list of everyone in our route. I only recognize one of the addresses, but it's one of my favorite Houston people: Brian of the Santa Claus Car! He's also the president of the Houston art car club, so it's possible they just CCed him because of that. But I really hope he's in our group. It's a long event and having someone cool along on the route makes it a lot more fun.
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