We’re headed back to Asia again.
And I’m waiting at an airport again.
At least I get to wait in style at the LAX Cathay Pacific lounge. We got ourselves cocktails. I checked out the food spread. I got bored. I took a nap. Pokin tried to convince me to use the airport showers. I ignored her.
Well today is a sunday. Normally that would mean Super Sumi Sunday.
Instead, it was a day devoid of gaming.
Instead we packed up the car and drove to the middle of the dessert in the middle of nowhere just to check out some flowers.
I can see flowers in my front yard. I fail to see the appeal.
“Sumi, it’s the superbloom,” Nick tried to explain.
“Trying to add SUPER onto something doesn’t make it super great,” I countered.
Superbloom is a phenomenon that happens in Death Valley roughly whenever we have El Nino. Then all the wildflower seeds that have been sitting dormant in the valley get doused with enough water to burst out in flowers. It happens about every decade or so.
So we had an El Nino this winter and somehow “we” decided the resulting bloom was important enough to see.
I don’t know who “we” were. I’m sure my bud would have voted the same way I would have.
Anyway here we are.
Check out the flowers.
Yeah. That’s the superbloom.