No Experiment is a Complete Failure...

...it can always be used as a Bad Example. Or so said Myron Kagen in my freshman chemistry lab decades ago. The best laid plans, but somehow our practice blogging on our week long Texas trip did not work out. In review, we occasionally did not have Internet access (and failed to remember we could have used tethering) and sometimes the photo we wanted was on the phone and we did not want to finger peck the blog entry, but mostly we were just having so much darn fun with our friends and family that we did not have the energy to blog at midnight.

So, here is the week in a nutshell:
-Saw our friends Mike and Anne in Eastland, that is Mike's fast pointy business vehicle below. Thanks for lunch and the always available room at your hotel.
-Stayed with Aunt Linda three nights and loved the meals, conversation, family updates and dogs.
-Had terrific Texas Barbecue with cousin Trace and with Aunt Suzie and Gruncle Dick.
-Chris showed off the souvenir his dad, Bubba sent back from Afghanistan.  We later found out from Richard and Richard, Jr. it is called a Pepperpot.
-Linda got us tremendous, fabulous, could-not-find-better seats at the Rangers game and Chris even snagged a game ball.
-Spent a night in Colleyville with Tom's early years Marine flight buddy, Brett and Janey.
-Went wine tasting and to a John Prine concert in Austin with our long-time friends and newly transplanted Texans, Alan and Louise.
-Stayed with our friends Barbara and Richard in Amarillo who always welcome us and joined the Pancake Station regulars.

The pictures are below, but I they did not appear in the order I loaded them so you have to play a game to try and match the picture to the event.

See, the blog thingy turned into a game because we did not do it day by day; I guess Myron was right, after all.

P.S. Today's trivia: Alan was also a grad student with Myron lo, those many years ago. I was a mere babe of 19.