I twittered (tweeted?) this in brief, but I have a few minutes to blog before I cave and suggest a post-midnight trip to the grocery store... because WE CAN! We can shop for groceries all night! And THEY will keep putting money in the bank! Then we can sleep all day! Or shop for more groceries! Or make food from groceries! Then eat it! All day! And all night! All week! All month! All of NEXT month! SUMMER IS HERE! WOOT-a-TOOT-TOOT!
YEAH!
Summer (as defined by teachers) is starting a few days late because we flew down to Fort Worth right after the last day of school. Obviously those adventures will be covered in other posts. Reckoning my usual rate... look for them in early August.
Expected Topics:
- The Federal Bureau of Printing and Engraving (the trip's surprise hit! you must go!)
- Joe T. Garcia's Mexican Restaurant (cash only, but good)
- Fort Worth Zoo (cons of much-publicized "Australian Exhibit" balanced by way-fun seed-on-stick bird feeding experience)
- THE WEATHER (I'd forgotten what it was like to have to swim through the heat)
- Aunt Lisa, Sue, (first) cousin (once-removed) Cissy (same old troublemakers)
- Nonna (with her dogs, the ever-happy Penny and the surprisingly subdued Max)
- Aunt Donna, Uncle Richard, and (first) cousin (not removed) Emily (as fun and nice as always, which is a lot)
- Botanical Gardens (how do you pronounce "pergola"?)
- Mike's T-bone steak from IHOP (Hank Hill would not approve)
- Cat-chasing (Cats 3 Visitors 0)
- Dad begins his YouTube career (with a dazzling video of me describing the best way to subscribe to National Geographic)
- Mom (too much to say to ever say it, actually)
- Naps, naps, naps (humidity isn't so much water as it is the drained lifeforce of out-of-towners)
- Chinese boat-coffins (do they need a full hour documentary?)
- My grandfather's books (does the bookmark show where he got bored or when he passed away? also, is Paul Theroux a bit of an unlikeable ass in all of his books or just this Iron Rooster one?)
Look at the way I don't capitalize the starts of my parenthetical sentences. LET THE SUMMER BEGIN!
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