After stopping in Austin for a large piece of Texan history (everything, including the history and capitol building, is bigger in Texas), we continued on our merry ay up to my sister's new house in Dallas. It is fairly nice, but she had not fully moved in. Many things weren't set up, including the water heater, but that didn't matter since it felt about 100 degrees every day we were there whether the sun was up or not. My sister worked a lot but managed to be pretty hospitable in spite of her busy schedule. The first night we were there, Nathan and I went out for drinks with some of her work friends. They included a motley assortment of people with interesting advice for our lives. I'm not sure Nathan and I will follow it any time soon. We learned a lot about the Country Club at which my sister works and had cheap Shiner Bock on tap. We slept on the floor since she hadn't moved very much in yet and offered our services to help her get more settled in her house. This came in the form of mowing the lawn, which felt great since I hadn't done it for so long. Yard wok is a good time; I will enjoy owning my own house.
The next night, Keaton and I looked up a Swing Club in Dallas proper and went swing dancing for a few hours. The club had a small dance floor but a lot of fun people. I stole into a birthday dance at the recommendation of the DJ since I was an "out-of-towner." We also realized that the road-trip gives us a lot of interesting things to talk about when you try to answer the simple questions of "what brings you to Dallas this summer?" Another good opportunity to talk about the school and our singing. Good times. We headed back fairly early (about midnight) so that we could wake up bright and early and head on up to Missouri. We stayed at the Groene's, Nathan's grandparents on his mom's side. Although we had to say goodbye to our cellphones and the internet for a short stint (a feat that killed none of us but Allen), the Missouri countryside was beautiful... but that is the story for another blog. We said goodbye to Texas and the true South and are gearing up to get out of the humidity soon!! Woohoo!
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