Hurricane Hanna

You know, I don't think 2020 could throw any more misfortune at me. (Jinx!) 

This weekend our family was planning on going on a little getaway to Corpus Christi to relax and have fun on the beach. Well, 2020 heard of our plans and decided to throw a hurricane straight at Corpus. So we cancelled our trip to stay home for yet another weekend.

Here's Hurricane Hanna

Besides our failed vacation, all we've been doing is either going to the waterpark at Six Flags or Splashtown.

The wavemaker at Six Flags was malfunctioning.

 At home, all of us have been lazy playing video games and watching way too much Amazing Race. Although I got my audition music for The TMEA All-State Band, and the music is fairly challenging, so I've set up virtual lessons with Joe Dixon.

Here's one of my pieces

However, we are going to try to get to Corpus again after the hurricane passes, so maybe, just maybe, you'll be able to read something interesting.

COVID-19 and High School

As time goes on things keep looking worse and worse. School is supposed to start in four weeks and Band camp two weeks sooner. But as the mayor and TEA keep announcing changes, the likelihood of marching band and in-person teaching is quickly fading. The majority of summer has been stuck at home, and we only go out to go to Splashtown or Six Flag's waterpark to cool off. My frequent bike trips have slowed to the heat of summer in Texas. So far in San Antonio, we've almost reached a total of 30,000 cases, and the U.S reporting over 3,7 million cases. I don't know when we'll get past this pandemic, but it looks like normal isn't coming anytime soon.

The Fourth of July

Independence Day this year was a bit different from how we'd normally celebrate our freedom.

As COVID-19 rages on and cancels our trip to Corpus Christi and The Lexington we decided instead of doing nothing on the fourth, we'd do some exciting activities.

We started the day off by spending some time at a friends swimming pool, enjoying burgers and brownies.

After swimming, we dried off and made our way to an escape room in downtown called Anubis. We barely escaped with a minute left. It was a very thrilling room.

This place was also the home of The 13th floor, a haunted house

WE escaped

Then we finished off our appetite with some extravagant fireworks and long sparklers.

A dud, yikes!

Yay America!

Coronavirus Catastrophe

Just a quick note on current events and things aren't looking good. The United States COVID-19 problem is escalating to new highs, including daily counts almost 60,000. and hospitalizations increasing drastically. Here in Texas, our COVID-19 problem is so horrible we've almost entered a second lockdown. Masks are now required in the state because our daily average is almost 9,000 every day. And in our own city, our coronavirus situation is not good. All of our hospitals are very close to full capacity, Houston already hit full capacity. Today In San Antonio we got 1,334 cases.

This is an EAS our city released

Just maybe will the human race be able to eradicate this pandemic.