There's no place like home.....

It feels good to be back home amongst familiar sights and welcomed relief from the overwhelming heat and humidity that is south south Texas. Not to mention those Texas size mosquitoes.

We were in Brownsville yesterday for Dora Lee's grad party. It was an interesting evening filled with plenty of family,food and fun. Yet that was not the most interesting part of the trip.

For starters we left town Saturday night @ around 9:15pm. We took our time on the road and since it was night time we passed the time watching several episodes of Supernatural. The trip itself wasn't bad. What happened once we reached our destination is what had us saying "never again". We got into town @ around 2:30 am or so and when we tried looking for a room for the night we were turned away not once, twice or even three times. We tried several hotels and to our dismay we were in a sense told that there was not room at the inn. The whole city including Harlingen and the island were fully booked. There were several sports tournaments and more than a handful of weddings going on. Which is unusual for a small town but I guess times they are a-changing. We usually make reservations way ahead of time but we figured--it's only Brownsville but the sucker is growing. Every time we go there's a new business popping up. Impressive. We ended up crashing on mom's driveway (we didn't want to wake anyone up @ the time). We got a couple of hours of sleep then took off for breakfast. I don't really remember much of what happened yesterday because I was sleepy and cranky all day-can you really blame me? We left last night again @ 9 after the party because we were stone tired and just wanted to get home cuz Joel had to work today @12. Didn't make it too far and ended up staying in Kingsville overnight. Things looked so much better after an uninterrupted night of rest. Got back into town before 10am and after a good breakfast it was time to go to work. Not me, I asked for the day off. For a brief second, brief....I considered going in to work but there's a lot of stuff to do around here. Plus, I didn't really felt like it. :)

Did I mention that mom got attacked by susan's dog? She had to have three stitches on her forehead from where the dog bit her. Yeah, ouch. Don't know the details but apparently they were playing with the dog when things got a little out of control and he collided with her head. She's doing better now but I think they're getting rid of the dog.

Have things to do, gotta go and make myself useful. Took plenty of pictures this weekend at the party. Maybe next time I can share some but for now gotta go.

Peace...