I'm back~

Home again home again jiggity jig ~ after our quick little run to Texas and we're back in snowy Wisconsin again.

What a quick trip ... a week and a half is just too short of time for a trip of that caliber.  Dear Hubby and I and our middle daughter, Sara had a wonderful time though.  Catching up with my sister and helping her out in preparation of her moving north to Wisconsin as soon as her house sells down there.  So this was possibly our last run down there.  It was a bitter sweet trip.  My sisters husband had passed away this last December and we hadn't seen her since his passing.

My brother in law used to be in the stucco/construction business and he had a lot of tools and such and a big garage of equipment, etc... that my sister wanted help going through before her sales.  Dear Hubby helped her out going through everything, making sure what worked and what didn't and getting what didn't to work, etc... A lot was accomplished in a short period of time :)  I'm glad he was able to to that for her.

 Despite the short time frame we were able to fit in some of the tourist things though.  We spent an afternoon down in Fort Worth and saw Titanica at the Omni Theatre - awesome!  We visited the Traders Village in Grand Praire ( the 80 acre flea market).  We made it over to Justin Boots where Dear Hubby found a new leather belt and Colleen got the cutest lil' cowboy boots ... 2 pair in fact.  I love the smell of leather in that store!

Coming home we stopped for the night in Branson and took in a Legends Concert.  We saw the Blues Brothers, Elvis, Diana Ross, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Brooks & Dunn ...

Then in Springfield we stopped at the Fantastic Caverns ... very interesting!

There was one stop that I was really hoping for but just wasn't able to do it ... I wanted in the worse way to give TexWisGirl a call and meet up with her - but I forgot to take cheese curds.  bummer!!!  There just wasn't enough hours in the day!

Also another bummer about the whole week ... 2 days before we left I had a flare up with shingles ... very painful to say the least.  I had a swollen face the whole week; but thankfully due to some antibiotics and pain meds I managed.  Thank God Sara and Slim did all the driving!  I couldn't of made it without them.  I hurt so bad and just laid on the back seat with my head buried in a pillow most of the time.

I'm "fluffy" anyways ... but you can see how swollen my face is.  Luckily I didn't break out too bad ... just a few pox behind my ear and up in my hair line.  It was nice though to soak in a few rays of sunshine for awhile. 

So.... I'm still healing from the shingles and I'm recooperating from the fast trip to Texas. 

Until next time ...
So it goes in my neck of the woods.
~mel