Last night we watched Indiana Jones and the Raider of the Lost Ark. I love that movie. While we watched, that big rain/thunder/lightning storm came through. Sheet and sheets of rain, crashing thunder, and huge cracks of lightning. It was a great background to the opening of the Ark of the Covenant.  Kona insisted on snuggling on my lap. Poor little thing. Her heart was just racing.

We went down to the waterfront this morning to see the Nina docked down by the east side of the Hawthorne Bridge. It is an exact a replica as possible of Christopher Columbus' ship. She is 93 feet long, 17' wide and draft is 7'. She originally sailed with a crew of 27. I have NO idea where they put them. Though she is 93 feet long, there is only 67 feet of deck. She is small! And went across the ocean. I was amazed. There is now a crew of 6 or 7and they have a diesel engine in case of no wind. I bet CC would be overjoyed. :)

She was built in South America by shipwrights in a little village that still used the old ways of shipbuilding from the 1400s. It took a couple of years as fundraising continued while she was being built.

Originally, all the sailors would have slept on deck. There was no room in the hold for people, only cargo. Now, there is bunks and people sleep relatively dry in the hold. I say relatively as the area where we stood to watch the tourist video was aft, by the rudder and underneath the raised aft deck. So we were underneath that high area in the back. It's open, by the way. It isn't a cabin. Anyway, the deck above lets water through in drips and drops, the sides are lowish, so ocean spray would be all over everything. Waves too in bad weather. I can't imagine sailing one of those across the atlantic. It takes about a month. Except for the time it took 54 days. That time CC had 127 people on the Nina. They were from other ships' crews. Unfortunately, they were down to about 80 when they got to port. Disease was a very bad thing in the 1500s.

It is sprinkly rainy today - a good day to go sew. :)

Fun ride today! We just did our regular route out to Troutdale and back, but this time I got to try Hubby's Roubaix. My bike stretches me out a bit when I'm on the hoods, and I've been plagued by shoulder and back pain. His bike has me in a more upright, closer in position. No pain at all today. None. Could be partly the chiro, could be partly the new position, but I am a happy girl. I need a new bike. :)

We saw one of these on our ride:  Truly a multi-use path.

Forward progress on the new flooring. For those of you keeping track at home, we have installed and sortof levelled a new subfloor, dragged home a ton of samples (seriously, those are heavy!) and installed a vinyl fiberfloor that didn't require glue. Good thing. We hate it. Totally too busy and the entirely wrong color. The actual product is really cool. You cut it and roll it out. End of story. Done. Easy peasy. Thank goodness. If we can get the new stuff ordered in time, we'll be re-doing it next weekend. The new pattern is great. Good thing I read that book on color. :)

I got one of my favorite magazines in the mail today, and I think I'll pour myself something refreshing and go sit on my butt.

It is near Rose Festival time here in Portlandia. Rose Festival is an annual event where there is lots of rain, and the seamen come up the river to spawn. Oh! I mean US and Canadian Navy and Coast Guard ships dock along the water front, there are parades (weird, normal, large, small) and many other goofy events.

At the moment, there is the caravel the Nina (of Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria fame) docked right near where I park my car. Today at lunch, I'm going to walk over and tour it. Tickets are $5 and it looks to be the coolest thing EVER. (For a history geek anyway.) Fun!!

Perhaps this weekend we'll go see Indy - complete with Coke and popcorn. MMMMmmmm. :)

Chiro helped quite a bit. Things are still tight, but I suppose I can't expect miracles. New soreness, but nearly ignorable.

Thursday night ride is a possibility - we'll see how today goes.

No Thursday Night Ride. The streets were wet and it was sprinkling. We very nearly talked ourselves into going to see Indy instead. But we were good, we went to the club to lift and I swam. Yep, you read it right I actually got in a pool, like with the water and everything. It felt pretty good. I am slow and get out of breath quickly, but even with stopping at each end, up and back only took 1:35. Not so bad for an old lady that relearned to swim last June and hasn't been in the pool since November. Could be a lot worse.  I got to use my new lap counter too. Cute little gizmo that goes on my finger. Now I don't have to worry about doing the same lap 3 times. :)

Chiro appt today. Hope he can fix me. I want to do thursday night ride. Couldn't do it right now to save my life. Ouch!!

AAAaaah! Snap crackle pop. I am very tight, I'm told. Hmmm. I do feel better though, and there's a possibility that we can totally get rid of my muscle knotting up when I cycle. That would be so cool.

My sewing guild meeting was tonight. We did a garment makeover challenge. I was bummed that I hadn't finished mine. Stupid back muscles. It was fun to see what everyone else did though. Now I'm all inspired to sew. I'm putting together a training/sewing schedule. If it's scheduled, it gets done. If I wait to sew "until I have time", there is never time and I don't sew.  While I'm at it I think the grocery shopping will get scheduled too. Otherwise, we spend all day Saturday running errands. I get tired of that.

Not sure what we'll do tonight. Run maybe? I need to get me a training plan. Then I would know. I hear there's a website that has those.

And I need to spend more time here, with one of these: