Back to Things

If you've been following my tweets on Twitter, you know we made it to Dallas and did our thing like we wanted to. (My tweets abruptly end on Saturday afternoon, marking our departure for home. They don't resume until this morning.) No trouble getting there, no trouble getting back, a fine time in between. Emily's friend, Jillian, came along and she was no trouble at all and Emily was thrilled, so that was a positive thing all around.

It'd been about 18 months or so since our last trip to Dallas and we kept ourselves to the usual haunts in Frisco and Grapevine. My, how the place has exploded in that span of time. I don't know how the current state of the economy is affecting Dallas but the stores and roads were crowded. Not Christmas-time crowded but jammed enough. On our way home on Saturday, the incoming traffic was bumper-to-bumper, a nice reminder of why Dallas is a great place to visit but a finer place to leave.

Funny thing, it turned out our neighbor, Miss Ronda, and her family were down there at the same time. Carli saw us at Grapevine Mills though we didn't see her. We ran into another neighbor and Emily saw, and talked to, the family hairdresser. All that way to see all those people. Guess we weren't alone in our idea.

Back to things today. End of Spring Break for the girls, work for Clara, and the continuing thrill of filing season for me.