Houston - Dallas - El Paso - Home

Sunday morning Kristan and I were picked up by the Houston airport shuttle at 7:00 a.m. & then arrived at the REALLY busy Houston Hobby airport around 8:00 a.m. for our 10:00 a.m. flight home. We had to change planes in Dallas and there lies the problem.. delays...delays...delays.. our flight was 3 hours late in leaving Dallas, then a brief stop in El Paso and finally arriving home 10 hours after our departure from our hotel.. Long day - but OK, since I was with Kristan and so it was great company. I love to travel with her, it is really the only time we get to spend quality time together. Houston CKU was so much fun, meeting old friends and making so many new ones.

The classes went so smooth, Kristan is an awesome teacher and everyone

loved their completed projects. Some of our new friends from Huston

Since the Westin Hotel is located in the middle of the Houston Galleria Mall.. I got to do some shopping while I was there and it was a great place to walk, and people watch. The mall is packed from the time it opens until it closes.. our rooms were on one side of the interior of the mall and the CKU activities were across the hall of the mall on the other side. So each time I would go to class or to our room I got to be in the mall. We ate at the great restaurants in the mall, Cheesecake Factory, Grand Lux & Kona Grill..so I was glad to have a place to walk it off that was so fun to look at. The Houston Galleria Mall has every store you can think of and every designer I have ever heard of and many I have never heard of.. They also have an ice rink where we could watch skaters perform.

It is always so fun to go away but wonderful to arrive back home. When I opened my curtains

was greeted by the most fabulous site. Many of the bushes on the golf course out my window are covered in the most beautiful purple flowers.. and I mean covered. There is one right off my patio and several others that I can see scattered around the course.

The flowers in the desert are truly vibrant.

I had a fun time in Houston; now I am getting my kits put together for my card classes tomorrow.. have a great day..