August 8, 2010: Liesl Gets Her Own Bed

We managed to sleep in until eight thirty this morning.  Boy did I need that! Once I was up and showered this morning I drove out to Panera and picked up breakfast for everyone.  After breakfast Francesca and I loaded her wash stand, which has been at our house the last couple weeks since we …

August 4, 2010: La Cima and Phone Calls

Today is definitely a hot one.  The raw temperature was one an even one hundred in Las Colinas but the heat index was a full one hundred and fourteen degrees!  It was both hot and sticky.  Even in the “cool” of the morning you walk out to a wall of humidity.  Not pleasant at all. …