Friday in Dallas/Ft. Worth is hot, humid and lots of traffic. We navigate the highways and arrive at the beautiful home of our wonderful tour guide #1, Celeste. She shows us around the house and pool and then drives us downtown to see the sights. Our first stop is The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. This is the former Texas School Book Depository which chronicles the assassination and life of JFK. Walking through the exhibits brought back many memories of my early teen years. We also visited a neat little park with an entire herd of longhorn statues.
Celeste drove us around Dowtown Dallas and we met Arnie for lunch at the Taco Diner. Jeff is actually having Tex-Mex food two meals in a row. Luckily they had a hamburger on the menu for the gringos. Arnie, wonderful tour guide #2, took over for the afternoon shift and showed us some areas with truly amazing homes/estates. We visited the Lamplighter School, where Arnie is the head, and I wish every child could learn in such a stimulating environment.
More eating as we met up with daughter Faith for dinner. It has been many years since we saw her and fun to spend some time together. Faith is doing development work for Habitat for Humanity. Now we drive back to Ft. Worth, which is actually pleasant without traffic and both Waage daughters, Erica and Jessica, are here. The gals are both finished with college and out in the working world. Erica is teaching in Austin and Jessica is doing sales in Dallas. It is great to see all three of these young women as beautiful, accomplished adults.
I have to thank Marlene & Bob for so many things. They are letting us stay in their driveway, feeding us, providing bathrooms and laundry. But most of all they are enjoying having Ziggy as a guest. She has full run of the place and even helped Bob mow the lawn. Jessica has brought granddog Bailey with her - a 5.4lb. Yorkie. Ziggy never knew she had so many cousins.I am pleased that Ziggy is getting along with her much smaller relatives as she can sometimes be such a bully.
To finish off the day, Marlene and Bob took us out for ice cream. We decided to sleep in the RV tonight as it is a bit cooler and a slight breeze.
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