Another Year

Well, today is the day, my 36th birthday!  While it's exciting to celebrate your birthday, it's also a reminder that you aren't young anymore...and that's hard to take sometimes.  But, you can also figure it like this - If I live to be 90, I'm not even 1/2 way yet, so here's to living to 90+ and enjoying the possibility that I'm not as old as it seems.

I spend my birthday today in Dallas - one of my favorite places in all the world...only because it's big and offers lots of things to do - like great places to eat!  For lunch, Penny and I joined Shu, Nat, and Kent at Chuy's - home of the world's best fajitas!!

 

After that, Penny and I visited the Apple store and a few others.  We also took an adventure into a nice wealthy neighborhood called Preston Hollow.  This is where President George W. Bush has purchased a home.  I joked with Penny about how it would be cool if they just happened to be in town today.  After wondering around, I put the address into my Garmin GPS.  I had driven just a "few" blocks too far.  We made our way back in what might be one of the nicest neighborhoods I've ever been in.  We came to the end of a street where the GPS told us to turn right.  We turned and noted that the street we were looking for was just a couple of blocks.  As we got closer, we were sad to see that the Dallas Police had the street blocked.  I told Penny (jokingly) - see I told you they were gonna be in town today - we laughed, drove on thinking that the neighbors were tired of weirdos like us wanting to get a view of the house.

After that, we saw a movie, drove around and shopped a little and decided to go grab dinner at my favorite restaurant ever...P.F. Changs.

  

It was really really good tonight...after dinner, we grabbed a few things from the grocery store and came back to the hotel.  I turned on the tv and flipped channels, landing on the local news.  A few moments had passed when they began talking about Laura Bush being in town today at their new home, checking up on the progress.  So I was right...mabye George wasn't here, but Laura was - thus the reason for the street being closed...I wish we would have driven through there anyway...we were in the church van, what did we have to lose!!!

Now I sit here, ready to go to bed, typing away about random things.  It's been a good day!  I pray that we are in store for a great year...one that will be remembered forever!

I'm trying to get into the posting mode, to post more often...it's coming slowly...

have a great day...hope your year is off to a great start too!!!