The work week was fine. I have to constantly remind myself that, it is what it is and there's not a thing I can do to make it in any better. At some point, you just have to give up. In a meeting with my bosses boss, he asked how I was doing and I compared my feelings towards my job to a baby in an orphanage, they don't stop crying because they are no longer hungry, tired, uncomfortabl
e or have had all their basic needs met; instead, it is because they have given up. That's the point I am with my current work situation. At some point you just have to let it go and move on, definitely not my area of strength. We did take a break and head to a happy hour at the Rooftop Bar at the One and Only Royal Mirage; it was definitely a good time!Fortunately, the rest of my life is pretty great. On Valentine's Day a bunch of us went to a friend's apartment and ate great food, sat around talking and when I left at 9:00 to watch two new episodes of Lost, they had this big calendar out and were attempting to coordinate a bunch of different activities, outings, parties and events that we all "should" do. It got a little overwhelming! I did another race the following morning. For some dumb reason I decided to meet early and do an extra 5 - 8 kilometers with my running group before we caravaned over to the 10 mile race. So, the race didn't start until 9:00 and when we got there we figured out that it was actually four loops through this park. The race itself was hilly, hot and really not that fun. Next week we have the Creek Relay, it should be better, but really hot.
When I got home, some of my friends were heading to the Hatta Pools, which is an hour or two away. They waited while I got ready and we headed out. It was a great day trip. On the way there, we had to pull over because there was a camel in the middle of the road.
Somehow we ended up at the Hatta Dam.
We drove circles through the large town of Hatta, sense the sarcasm..., and eventually found th
e Hatta Pools, we realized the Toyota Echo was not likely to be able to handle the 
roads, so we just hopped into a 4 x 4 of some random German guy that drove by. Even as we were doing it, I was thinking, this is probably not the best idea, but we came so far... It worked out fine and we had an amazing time hiking around the pools, taking photos, sitting and talking and then just sort of staring at how beautiful it was. On the drive back we found out that some friends of ours got engaged and were having some people over that night, and earlier in the week a girlfriend of mine had made me "pinkie swear" that I would go to a karaoke bar.
We attempted to introduce some country into the lineup; it was interesting, to say the least. We stayed out ridiculously late, but when we finally did
make it home at 3:00 in the morning we were already planning out our next day, Lime Tree Cafe and Russian Beach. The next morning we got up at
9:30ish, did the usual text message planning conference and decided we would meet in the parking garage at 10:15. After a relaxing two hour meal at Lime Tree (which is a ridiculous amount of time for us to have chosen to stay) we ran across the street, hopped the fence in the middle, and set up all our stuff at Russian Beach. The lifeguards there are hilarious. Fully clothed men are not allowed to just walk around the beach, if they try the lifeguards will stare, whistle and wave them off. There is some sort of rule against cameras too. I spent the majority of the day working on my tan and reading a mindless novel. I did stop doing that long enough to sing a few words of a song to every person who I knew in attempt to figure out who sang it. Eventually it was figured out. Good thing too, I mean how could I possibly have slept without knowing the artist... I added some more photos...http://picasaweb.google.com/lnrivera76
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