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October 05, 2004

We Made It! The Astros Did Too!

We're back home again! It certainly feels delicious to be able to sleep in your own bed and eat the home-style cooking that you crave! You know, I always get excited about going out to eat during a road trip. It really is fun and adventurous. However, you just don't realize how much you miss home cooking until you start eating it when you get back! All that aside, let me say that I love road trips. It's great fun to explore far places and experience new sites, and to travel on your own time and schedule. I really, really love road trips, and really, really like to get back home! It makes me realize that while the world is a fun and exciting place, having a constant and settled place to call home is one of the greatest comforts out there. So, I'm back home and at it again!

The Oklahoma State Southern Gospel Singing Convention was really a fun and enjoyable time! It was so heartwarming to smile, laugh, hug, and excitedly talk to all of our dear and precious loved ones who we had not seen for so long! I even got to know three cousins better that I had not kept up with over the years, as well as be the photographer for the event. Tara was the videographer, and we both had a very fun time. Our Aunt Eloise conscripted us the minute we walked through the door, and we are glad she did, because we got to be a part of the inner workings of the convention. Uncle Bill was truly delighted to see all of us, and his birthday party was a big surprise to him! You should have seen the look on his face when the entire crowd broke into "Happy Birthday" instead of the song in the book that they had turned to! The entire family stood up with him in the front while they sang some of his most beloved songs. He was also presented with a lovely plaque from the Convention for his work and effort as a songwriter. The whole night was a delightful time, and I'm sure it will go down as one of our most favorite memories. The party, the reunion, the love, and the laughter were all worth the many miles we drove to get there, and it was a splendid time, all around the table. One of the highlights were two piano players that could play the doors right off of the hinges!! Their quick and light fingers flew over the keys with fluid, lightning speed, and there at the end when it was time to go, they each had a piano and were dueling away with gospel songs, faster, faster, and faster! It was a delightful spectacle.

The rest of the time, we spent our time shopping in the town, and staying at our Aunt's cozy house. She has a lovely house, and two very fat cats, who are our "cousins", so to speak, since she treats them just like children! We watched TV, played with the cats, and had a nice time together. I set up Auntie's new DVD player for her, and a few other things. We were sad to leave, but our duty to home and pets called us to part for a season once more. The weather was cool and almost sublime the whole time we were up there, which was a great experience for us Texans! However, we were soon on our way, and are happily and safely back in Texas.

We stopped in Atoka Oklahoma, which is one of our favorite places now, and especially one of my favorite places. I guess you've already deduced that, having looked at my picture page! We took some more pictures, and bought some more souvenirs. I got two more little Confederate flags, so now I've got four different ones! We also stopped in Richardson Texas at another of our favorite stores, the Texas Army Navy Store. I simply LOVE that store!! I love the bricks in the walls!! It's probably the only place on earth that I could blow $1000 in under an hour. However, I controlled myself this time, and just looked. Mom got me a M-67 frag grenade, just like the ones in America's Army, which is my favorite thing I got on the trip! It is, or course, demilitarized, and is empty. However, it is the neatest thing I've gotten in a long time. I love it! I can even pull the pin and throw it around. *jumps around excitedly*

Other stops we made were at the cemetery of our first Grandpa, where we cleaned his headstone and took some pictures, Hillsboro to eat supper at a Mexican restaurant, and in Waco to treat ourselves to Starbucks before heading home. It was a wonderful trip, and we all had so much fun it would take pages to write it all! I even got to see a real, in-the-flesh International CXT Commercial Pickup, painted Cerulean Blue. You know the one that I posted about? What a truck! DUDE! That was too cool.

The was one more thing that made the trip. It just MADE the trip. The Houston Astros fought the fiercest battle they've ever fought, and won the National League Wildcard!! You should have seen me, cheering them on with shrieks of delight. It would have been one thing to watch the highlights on their website and to hear it on the radio. That would have been superb. However, I got to watch almost all of the game on ESPN, which was a real treat for me. I was in the seventh heaven. I probably ruined the furniture and I most certainly got a sore throat and burnt my hands because I clapped so hard. I am so happy!!!!! The Astros won the Wildcard!!! *roars in manifest delight and pumps his fist in the air* I almost hit the ceiling pumping my fists in the air so hard and enthusiastically. They won, they won, they won!!!!

So as you can see, a wonderful trip in every respect. Praise the Lord for a much needed and refreshing family reunion trip, and for helping the Astros win the Wildcard! I'm so happy to be back home. THE ASTROS WON THE WILDCARD!!!

Posted by Grant at October 5, 2004 04:19 PM

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