Nails For The Road

Got some pretty nails done for the trip to Kosovo!

Chartreuse And More

More and more chartreuse is a sign of progress.

Texafrench

Nearing the end of our home leave, we realized we had not hit up La Madeleine yet.  This visit remedied that.  I do love their soups and french dip sandwiches.  Their caesar salad is good, too.

Lunching Ol' South Style

Andreas had a reuben and I had chicken fried steak.  Gotta get my gravy somewhere!  It was gooood.

Fluttered By

Almost a full week after finishing the cross stitches on this, I finished the back stitching.  There was a LOT of back stitching.  It did add a lot of depth to the butterflies, though.  I am now down to only two items on the 2012 list, both of them large and being worked on.

Take Some Thai

Andreas' mom wanted Thai food as her last non-airport meal in the US before flying off to Japan.  I found Oceanic Thai Kitchen in Carrollton.  It was evidently a good choice, because Mike and Betsy had been to this place before during a quilt show and loved it. Everyone but me had bubble tea.  I had soup instead.  The food was very good and authentic too.  

Parental Visit

Andreas' parents came over to DFW because his mother was flying to Japan the next day.  We spent the afternoon tasting wines and ciders in Grapevine as we explored its old downtown.  First stop was Messina Hof, Texas' oldest.  I had a champagne cocktail.  We all shared a cheese platter. And Andreas' parents tried a flight of wines.  The place was super crowded because there was a party going on upstairs, where there is normally more seating.