This post has been long enough delayed! It seems like I let school get in the way of the important things in life: blogging, watching movies, and sleeping in. A few weeks ago, I was able to visit Dana in Texas. It was a great weekend to spend with her and to see where she lives.
When I arrived on Friday, we immediately embarked on the 1 hour+ trip to Sherman. On our way, we saw not one, not two, not three, but four Kohl’s. I don’t know why one road needs so many Kohl’s. It’s almost as bad the four Targets I pass on my way to work each day. After eating free, good chicken-fried steak (yum…beef, breading, and gravy!), we stopped by Walmart to pick up a few ingredients we were lacking for our weekend meals. I couldn’t figure out how to get in! Yes, I’ve worked at Walmart for 3 years and continue to patron it regularly, but somehow I didn’t believe that the door marked “exit” is actually not an entrance. In my defense, that’s the only Walmart I’ve ever been to that’s doors worked only one way.
(Sidenote: For all you Norman-ites, you should check out the grocery entrance at the westside Walmart. The door marked exit has “do not enter” signs on the doors as you leave, or at least it did when I worked there!)
A more disgusting part of our Walmart trip was that Dana saw a woman drag an entire cart into the bathroom stall with her. That cart was probably carrying someone’s groceries only an hour later! Gross!
Saturday, Dana took me to the house that she is working on fixing up. It’s in a small town outside of Durant that I have already forgot the name of. It was neat to see what has already been done and what still yet needs to be done. You can see Dana on her porch in the picture above. Look at those new windows and doors!
This next picture is probably the best picture. There was an outhouse behind her house! No word on when renovations will start on it.
No trip is complete without a funny picture of Dana. When she bent down to smell this daffodil, I had to capture the Kodak moment!
After we finished the grand tour, Dana took me by her grandfather’s grave. I know that he meant a lot to her, so it meant a lot to me to see his grave.
The next stop was our longest. We went to Dana’s mom’s house in order to prepare for a garage sale. We didn’t do a lot of that, but Dana did let me help her clean out part of her room. The best part was probably getting to organize her books (I love that she lets me organize her sometimes!) and getting to hear her read her freshman year diary. Getting to know the freshman Dana was neat, because the heart for God was there along with, of course, some juvenile sentiments.
Look at the cute babies we got to hang out with! Amy (with Dana) was very shy around me at first, but later she would play peekaboo and wanted me to let her outside to play. Heavenly (with me) was the sweetest, most content baby I’ve come in contact with. Makes me want one of my own!
Saturday wasn’t complete without a visit to Sonic. I had to have a Vanilla Diet Dr Pepper done right! It was so delicious!
Sunday was good too. I got to go to church with Dana as well as to her small group. She has a great small group, full of people of all ages who are seeking after God. During the discussion afterwards, I was sincerely asked to come back and teach a class at VBS! I think that would be an interesting career, going around helping with VBS. Sadly, I don’t think I could really make a living off of it, though.
Late Sunday was spent with Christina in Dallas playing games. Christina is too good, beating me at Othello, Beat the Landlord, and Ultimate Uno. We all laughed a lot though, making it worth only getting 3 1/2 hours of sleep before I headed back to Raleigh for work the next day.
