Have you ever walked over the spring garden bridge on the north side and seen the small spiral staircase down to the water?  Today i decided to go down there.  I biked around the other side of the art museum down to the waterwork then parked the bike and walked down the stairs.  I climbed into a tree that over hung the water and ate my plain bread dinner/pre swim snack.  You can almost forget about the sound of hundreds of cars on the expressway.