Ok, we went over the river and through the woods to grandpa's house, or dad's house, or whatever (Dec 23 - 30). We had a great time, OK? Visited with his godgrandson and Uncle Dean/Aunt Honey, and Uncle Joe. Really, we had a great time. No snow, and none of this problem with frozen water we heard so much about. Right before we left to come back to Austin, Azucena and I splurged since we hadn't really splurged on dad before (not for Christmas). Gary had given him some dvd's that showed his pretty face on tv during a Philly's game, and Jeff's family had given him a book on Baseball stuff (yeah, it was a good gift, only it included a DVD of news reels). Well, since he had no dvd player, we felt it was our duty to get one for him. But since his pissass tv had no connections other than cable, we felt it was our duty to upgrade the darn thing. So, Thursday after breakfast, we shopped at Best Buy and picked out an Insignia TV and DVD/VHS player. We went to the National Museum of the Air Force after lunch. This is one big museum. It is free and you can easily spend a few days here. After the museum we to his apt and gave him his Happy New Years Gift (since we already gave him a Christmas Gift, we needed to make up a gift reason, right?). The expert set it up (ARO if you didn't know) and let him learn the controls. He did have one nice piece of equipment, a Bose Wave radio that we used for speakers. Minimal effort on his part to watch DVD or VHS or cable. Then we went to dinner. (he tried to invite his newfound girlfriend we hooked him up with (dining hostess from our hotel), but she didn't have transpo at that time. Oh wells. On Friday, on our way back home, we stopped by his place to work out a few kinks and it was like watching a kid in a candy shop. (Sorry your Buckeye's lost the ball game, but they really did play crappy, and YES, UT did beat Iowa - Hook Em.)
Sunday (1/7) we had a wonderful lunch with Angie, Li'l Doug, Marcus and Mom R at Dave & Busters. Played for a few hours and left with a few goodies. We revamped our loft so we picked up a fiber optic lamp from D&B to put in the room for decoration. Loft is looking might good after all the changes. It's the game room we always dreamed it would be. Just a bunch of years later than we wanted.