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Sunday.  Our last day in Dallas until next weekend.  We are going down to Houston in the morning, so we are hanging out at home today, no real plans.

This morning we took the kids to Cafe Brazil for breakfast.  Shawn was working, this is the first time that we’ve actually run into either Shawn or Tim at Cafe Brazil even though they claim to work there all of the time.

Rachel, Chris and Estella left Houston this morning around eleven so we are expecting Rachel to get home in the later afternoon.  I’m sure that she will be looking forward to a hot shower after a weekend of camping in the woods without any running water.  Ick.  So not my thing.  If going to a renaissance festival sounds boring normally, camping at one in the cold makes it so much worse.  It’s actually hard to imagine how many things would be less fun.

We had a pretty relaxing day.  Dominica and I hung out with each other much of the morning.  Rachel came home as expected, but tonight is the Walking Dead and we do not have television so she did not stay for too long.  Kim came over and hung out for a while.  Shawn stopped by.  Lots of traffic around the house.

This evening Dominica and I started watching The Ranch on Netflix.  Lots of good people, but the show is just not doing it for me.  I really like the cast, but the characters are not very good.  We watched quite a bit of it, though.

Saturday.  We have the house to ourselves all day as Rachel is down in Houston for the renaissance festival there.  She left yesterday and won’t be back until later in the day tomorrow.  So this is rare for us to have a quiet house for the entire day.

Liesl played some video games this morning.  She is really, really into Rayman Origins, which is a hard platform game and we are very impressed that she is playing it so much and so well.

This evening Kim and Armando came over to hang out, we have not seen them in forever.  Sheldon and Bryce came along too.  Kiara stayed and watched the girls, it has been years since she babysat them, they were so excited.

We started by going to the Drunken Donkey up in The Colony so that Armando could watch the Oklahoma versus West Virginia game up there.  We had some snacks there and hung out for an hour or two.  Allie was working but we did not see her until we were going to leave.

Sheldon and Bryce went home and then Kim, Armando, Dominica and I tried going out to Mavericks up Hebron but we stepped in and it was not the kind of place that we were looking for so we decided to take Bryce’s advice and go to Cowboy Red River in the city instead.  It was a little bit of a drive but turned out ot be far more of what we were looking for.

None of us have been to Cowboy Red River before but it turned out to be pretty nice.  The place was huge, had lots of dancing, loads of people and a good live band.  We had a really nice evening.

Friday.  Slow day today as we start to head towards the holiday week.  I spent a bit of the day today working on DuoLingo Italian.  We are going to be heading to Italy at the beginning of January and I want to be really ready for it.  I got into my Italian studies yesterday but am trying to really keep it going today.  I’m really enjoying how quickly I am able to pick it up and feel like I am making real progress really quickly.  So I did easily twenty lessons today!

Rachel came home at lunch today.  She is going to the Houston area renaissance festival this weekend and is not going to be home until Sunday afternoon but she had to come up from work and pack before being able to leave today.  So we saw her but just a little bit.

This evening, Dominica was going to go out but everyone ended up canceling on her so in the end she decided to stay home and watch The Gilmore Girls, to get ready for the release of their new mini series next week, and that I could go out.  So I talked to Shawn and he and I went to Quinlan’s for a couple of drinks.

Today is the final day of the “big gap” in SGL updates.  Fingers crossed that we can leap forward and keep things up to date very, very soon.

We had been doing MediaWiki testing the last few days and it was a dud.  So today we are starting some DokuWiki testing instead.  I’ve been keeping myself busy this week with documentation stuff.

 

Had a busy day of work between writing, building servers, posting and what not.  Was actually heavily engaged all day and really did not spend much time during the day out of the office.

Hung out with Rachel a bit this evening.  Then later on I took the girls out to go on a Pokewalk around the area to see if they could find anything.