KEEPING BUSY

We are keeping too busy to post to the blog. August 25 we left Dallas DFW Marriott in a chartered bus for our trip to Galveston for the Kiwanis Convention at Sea on the Carnival Ecstacy. We left in a light rain, drove all the way to Galveston in cloudy, rainy weather hoping that it would move west of I-45 but it didn't. We had a great time on the cruise. The video shows our dining partners that we ate with every night. It is a great way to meet new people. The cruise spent a day at Cozumel, but we stayed on the ship and enjoyed the Swedish massages at the spa. Our window was just above one of the departure landings and we watched the many photographers taking photos of those departing the ship.

After the cruise we came back for a Johnston family Labor Day reunion in the Arbuckle mountains of Oklahoma near Turner Falls to accomodate the Johnstons from Olathe, Ks as well as those from OK and TX. Nancy wanted our families to get to know each other and Jim Wilcox's family was able to come. Kathy and Keith have season tickets to Aggie games and went to the SMU game Sunday night. Jim took his family to visit Turner Falls and Brent came back saying the Falls went drip, drip, drip. The boys with their cousin, Cody had a great time with water balloons.

Nancy and I came back to Granbury in two hours, napped for a couple of hours and came back to Cross Plains Monday. Tuesday I got two weeks of mail, went to Kiwanis at noon, and went to a play practice Tuesday night. Today I went to Abilene to have a tooth filled after seeing a dark spot on the Xray when I had them cleaned. I haven't had a filling for over 20 years. It took 30 minutes and was painless. I asked how long it would take for the filling to set. He said 20 seconds. I feel great this afternoon after a nap and meal.