Hurricane

Since Ike was on its way to Houston Neil, Grace, and I packed up and headed out of town. When we left Neil's co workers laughed but some areas in Houston are still out of power! For the those of you unfamiliar with Houston it is not a lovely place without air conditioning. We spent a few fun days in Dallas with Neil's aunt and uncle. Which was perfect since Neil's company has a Dallas office. While in Dallas we went out to eat at Babes and I had the best fried chicken on the planet. While not much in the looks department this resturant rocked my world. The moment I walked in the door a delicious aroma of fried chicken attacked my nostrils. Neil and I also took Grace to the Fort Worth Zoo. I took pictures but I left the camera with Neil :( After a few days Grace and I decided to head up to Chicago for a visit. While here Grace had her first 1/2 birthday. To commemorate the special day Dad, Mom, Ashton, Troy, Grace and I went on a picnic in the park. While there we played a killer soccer game where Troy and I demolished Ashton and Dad. Later we swung by the love fountain and Grace made her first true love wish :) The love fountain has been a tradition since childhood. When my sister Jill and I were little our friends Jodi and Lena introduced us the the love fountain. Their mom would take us to the candy store and then we would go take our change and make some true love wishes. Now the love fountain is not for the faint of heart because there is a special etiquette one must follow. You see before making a wish you have to run around the fountain not once, not twice, but three times. And then throw in your coin with attitude. Only then is your wish sure to come true. Well, when we went this past week it was the middle of the day and there were plenty of witnesses about. Did that stop us... of course not. True love is totally worth public embarrassment.