Myrna Time

This last weekend we had a fun visit from Myrna! Hooray! David and Judy dropped her off Friday night so that we could keep her up talking all night. It was great!
The next morning Myrna and I took the girls in the double stroller to the park. It's about a mile walk there, which didn't seem a big deal since the weather was surprisingly nice and cool and crisp! Finally! Enough with the 85-degree weather already!!
We had a great time at the park, but I must say, it was a really good thing the adult-to-child ratio was even or we might have ended up swimming with the ducks and turtles. Seems that the ingenious architect of the park did not take my advice. Had he taken my advice he would not have built a playground right next to a sloping hill with a lake at the bottom of it. Brilliant. So since all the kids naturally want to see the ducks and turtles, we get to spend the whole time throwing ourselves down the hill, trying to make a human barricade each time a little one makes a break for it. Fun!
By the end of our visit to the park we were both quite exhausted (from the diving and all) when we realized the temperature had sneaked upwards and we now had another mile walk home. D'oh! Oh, and Andrea was not about to ride happily in the stroller. No, she wanted Myrna to give her a piggy-back the whole way! Myrna is a really good sport.
Myrna's visit with us ended when I drove her up to Vaughn's daughter's house in Allen (about 45 mins away). I think the driving made her nervous as we had to take 635 and 75 - two of the worst, most-congested freeways in Dallas. And the Dallas drivers were on their "best" behavior for me as well. Love when you turn on your blinker to change lanes so the person behind in the next lane speeds up to block you. So nice. Too bad I didn't realize I could have taken the tollway most the way there to shave off about 20 mins while enjoying very little traffic. Double D'oh! Oh well.
Thank you for the visit Myrna!! It was great to see you!