Ahh, life in the frozen tundra... You know, I grew up in Northern Virginia. It gets quite cold there - it often snows and freezes. As a kid, though, I remember walking to the bus stop in the snow - in flip flops or wearing a tshirt. Granted, my parent's house, the bus, and the school were all sufficiently heated so the walk in the cold really wasn't that bad because (1) I was coming from and going to heated places, (2) it wasn't more than 10 minutes and (3) when it's cold, you walk fast, blood pumps, you don't freeze - it's the circle of life.
The reason I must bore you with this bit of background information is because I'd like to think that I do have a generally reasonable understanding of what "cold" is. Let me say that the past week on the Island has been really. freaking. cold. The dogs' water bowls froze. Two nights in a row. The bowls were inside our house. Yeah. Cold.
Anyhoo, my point is that there are plenty of things to do on the Island even when it's cold, and there's an especially fun one coming up this weekend - the first annual Yaga's Chili Quest.
Brought to you in part by Fit To Run, there's a morning 5K run/walk (bet that'll warm a body up!) that starts at 10am at Float on Seawall - the $25 registration fee will get you in the race, an event tshirt, chili sampling cup&spoon, souvenir event cup and entry in some drawings. (You don't have to enter the race to go to the chili cookoff though, so no SWEAT - get it!? - if you're not into that!) Plus, all net proceeds go to Galveston County children's charities! The part I'm most excited about is the jalapeno eating contest. Plenty of heat there. I wonder if anyone will be bringing that special chili with that Guatemalan pepper grown by mental patients...
So stay warm out there, jump around, perhaps take a shot of whiskey now and then as my Grandma ("Lokie" as we call her) would have us do after an afternoon playing in the snow - accompanied by the loving reminder "this will warm you up... but don't tell your mother!".
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