Happy Birthday to the best city I've EVER lived in! Woohoo to Mountain View....otherwise known as the Happiest Place on Earth. 100 years on this very day. I've got my Centennial Committee Shirt on, my jacket and umbrella..... I'm ready to brave the first storm of the season to celebrate the final Centennial Event of the year. Get to see the new Centennial Plaza, my family's inscribed bricks, and the new train station...a replica of the historic train depot built in 1888. Here's to historic architecture! Eat that Bill.

I was appointed by the mayor of the city to the Centennial Celebration Planning Committee back when I was in high school. How weird that this date is finally here. I remember being a young teen and realizing that my 20th birthday would be two days after MV's 100th. Jeesh...20! I thought. That's a whole new decade. Ack! The same thoughts go through my mind right now.

Hmm.....it sure is pouring outside. Unfair. So conflicted! Usually the first rain of the season is something I really enjoy. Now it's just...well...raining on my city's parade. Ah well!