I am in ?

At the moment I am sitting at a bar using the free internet that is provided. I have been here since Tuesday and I must admit much to my amazement, I missing Gordon like a lost limb.

Why am I here? Its my Mum and Dad's goldern wedding anniversary celebration tomorrow and they do not know I am here:) Its all a grand surprised organised by my youngest sister and I,

So what have I been doing in the meantime. Well, I arrived in the UK, last Friday at London Gatwick but quickly flew up to Glasgow (quickly in that I waited patiently for 8 hrs for my flight) to stay with my Father-in-law.

Anyway, I will write more once I arrived back in Austin on 12th Dec. Hopefully I wont be going nuts by then. I really miss all the wry quips Gordon comes up with as we are going about life. A single life is not for me!!!

Back in Pflugerville

Jeeze, that is a long drive, especially when the sun is beating down.

Well, Emily is all signed for the beginning of the next 4 yrs of hard slog. She nearly didn't get to sign up for classes as the computer wasn't allowing her to do drawing and design classes. It turns out she had been accepted for the college of Art and Sciences to do Mathematics, even though she had applied for Photography and maths. Anyway, I would be have ranting if I had been her, as all of yesterday was spend with advisers on which courses she should take. You would have thought that they would have done the basics and checked that she was actually accepted as a Maths Student,not Art and that she needed to change her major. Still, she calmly told her Dad (I had to disappear for a minute), told him she was going the Art Building to sort things out and she did.

I must admit the art programme at UNT seems very structured and aiming to get the best out of their students. Wish my degree programme had been so organised.

It was a frantic 3 days for Emily and not so frantic for us. As I stated in my previous post, I got a little drunk on Monday night. It doesn't take that much these to be honest but I enjoyed it at the time. Not so good for getting up at 7.30 am and listening to round of people telling you what a great place UNT is and oh, by the way, this is where you pay! Actually the presentations were very good and informative.

I think the worse aspect about the whole thing were the insects- Gordon and I were covered in bites.

Here are some photos from the last few days

ART. this was outside the art building so I am assuming was a project of some sort.I thought it was great, especially all the wild flowers.

The dorm where where we were staying. Apart from looking newer, dormshaven't changed much over the years. Still cramped for space.

Map of UNT Campus

The clock tower and the symbol for the Mean Greens - an eagle

Gordon


His leg showing the bites. Just hope the mossies don't have West Nile now.




Downtown Dallas as we were driving on the I35 west.