Friday

Sammy got up and went walking with Grandpa, sans the very tired Jamie this morning. I thought they had walked three miles each of the other days, but they walked *almost* three miles on those days and actually hit it today. When I got up this morning I found my parents reading the paper at the dinner table and Sammy on the laptop on the internet and eating breakfast.


This afternoon we drove out to MF to drop Claudia and Jordan off at their dad's house so they could hang out and do some shopping. Jamie, Sammy and I went to a mexican restaurant so Sammy could try some different things. She's tried a lot of new foods this trip--barbeque in Alabama, turkey sausage and brisket in Texas, cajun food, Bluebell ice cream, Big Red soda, moon pies, fajitas and lime and strawberry slushes from Sonic so today we bought a few ala carte items so she could try a tamale, a cheese enchilada and carne guisada. She decided Tex-Mex really isn't her thing, but it's good to experiment and she's a trooper!



After that we went souvenier shopping.

I ran into someone I haven't seen in 20-something years and it was like I had seen her last week. She was the first person I met in first grade and we went through twelve years of school together.

And then we went to Aunt Ginny's house and Sammy and Bailey drove the golf cart around the cow pasture. Grant was very adorable and showed us the tricks he can do on his power wheels and he has a really cool little trailer that he attaches to it. I want that!



After our stop at Ginny's we dashed over to pick up Claudia and Jordan, we ran by a mexican restaurant for tamales to take home and then we drove to Austin to meet our fabulous friends Christine, Ray and their four kids at a restaurant so Claudia could spend the night with them tonight and go to the Schlitterbahn with their son who is her best friend, Cutter, and some of his friends tomorrow. It was so great to see them and we got to meet their *adorable* "new" 10-month-old baby! Jamie and I both got to hold him and he liked us--I could tell he thought we were both mildly amusing. Jamie told me I was doing Pee-Pie incorrectly, that it's supposed to be Peek-a-Boo, but he's wrong about that, of course.

On the drive home we cut across town via Sixth Street which was getting into swing for the weekend. And then when we got home my lovely and fabulous parents had dinner waiting on us.

It's true--we are slap wore out. OMG! But, of course, all worth it!