Last half of October home leave

It was a great trip and we thoroughly enjoyed it but we will know to plan less and travel less next year when we come, and not add a week in Peru.

After Peru, the next stop was Dallas. The first couple of days, we hung out with Valerie and Kevin. That was very relaxing and fun. On Friday, Chris and I got to have a home visit with Jasper. (His Dad took him out of school at noon so we could have the afternoon with him.) We always have fun with Jasper. He never disappoints. He had grown a lot in six months.

Friday night, we had dinner with Kevin and Bill Day. Saturday we spent the day with David, Rebecca and Jasper. We took Jasper Christmas shopping. He’s a big boy who knows what he wants and he loves to shop. The big hit of toy shopping was “Wall-E”, a robotic toy that Jasper had great fun with. Saturday was also David’s birthday so we arranged a dinner with the family including Kevin and Bill. It was a lot of fun. On Sunday, we spent more time with David, Rebecca and David and took them to lunch before we headed for the airport.

Next stop: Lubbock and on to see Mom. After a couple days at her house, we headed to Alpine with Mom. We spent 4 very busy but relaxing and fun days with Mom who had never been to Alpine. We looked at property, showed Mom the 20 acres where we intend to build our retirement home, shopped and had a great time. And of course, we took her to see Marfa and the Marfa lights. The night we were there, the lights were not as active as they have been most of the times in previous visits. We stayed two more days with Mom at her house before we headed to Houston, our last stop on the journey.

We thought Houston would be really fun and relaxing, hanging out with friends, shopping and going to movies. But in reality, it was very hectic and we had too much to do. We did see one movie and a few friends but spent most of our time shopping for things we wanted to send in our air freight shipment. This included buying draperies for our flat, tennis shoes, tennis shoes, etc, oh and don’t forget the scrubs for Emmanuel. We went to the dentist and voted on Tuesday. Had to go to a different dentist on Thursday. Maintenance, maintenance, maintenance. Chris took the items we had collected/purchased to the air freight company for shipping.

And yes, we are already planning our next two trips!


Ciao!

Donnie