Sunday January 27, 2008

We are including some up close and personal pix we took at the Wildlife Ranch. The ostrich is very interested in what Dave is holding and actually stuck his whole head and neck into the car to reach the food. As you can see, the zebra is getting a bit too close to Sandie (I was practically sitting on Dave's lap to get away from it!). We did laugh ourselves silly though!!!

We had an earlier breakfast this morning and then drove Justine to the airport. We were sad to see her go as we had a great time with her here. We came back and packed up a few more odds and ends and then headed out to my cousin's house. Their house is very near the back gate to Lackland Air Force Base and Ron had faxed us a wonderful map which got us there with no problems. Technically they live in San Antonio, but it is quite a way out of the city center. We had a lovely lunch with Cookie, Ron, their son Trey and his wife, Lettie (from Ogden, Utah) and a cousin Karen and her son Chris who is four. After lunch, we went around to the next block where Uncle GC and Aunt Lib lived. They took us out the the shop where GC used to do his lapidary work and Cookie gave us some fossils, polished slabs, petrified wood, a geode, and bags of polished stones for the grand kids - we are totally overwhelmed by their generosity. Chris kept himself busy by "washing " his polished stones in water and then arranging them on the patio table. He started bring some of the larger stones to the table, but Ron told him they were "lever" stones (as in lever where she was). We went back to the house and watch home movies for a while - some were from old family reunions and it was fun to see some of the cousins we haven't seen in a while - we also saw some photos of ourselves at one reunion and didn't recognize ourselves at first because of the dark hair - when did we turn gray??? We went out to dinner at a local burger restaurant - again, these are Texas size burgers - with cheddar cheese soup and sweet onion rings. We couldn't finish everything and we were stuffed to the gills. We took our leave and stayed at a motel just around the corner from their house where Cookie and Ron had arranged a room for us (pay back time when you get up North!).