But here is the last installment... Texas. Lubbock, Texas.
Sunday, the day after Tough Mudder and Mythbusters, we woke up in a world of hurt. Every inch of our bodies seemed to have some sort of ache or bruise. We could walk, and I actually could still run, but we needed time to rest. What better place to rest than at a home with a new-born?! (I'm serious. In homes with a new-born one can just sit, and sit, and sit, and it's alright.)
Around 7:45am on Sunday we went from Trevor and Michelle's home (after some serious hugs), dropped off our lovely rental car at the rental car area at the Phoenix airport, arrived at the Phoenix airport, got through security, boarded our plane, and arrived in Lubbock, Texas and meet our new nephew, Jaxson.
Mr. Jaxson belongs to Matt's sister and brother-in-law, and he is their first baby. And oh! what a baby. A chunky monkey of happiness.
For basically 3 days we sat, ate, played games, held baby, and SLEPT. We both agree that we planned the trip perfectly, with Texas being on the end. A time of rest, relaxation, and rehabilitation.
It was great to be with Marcie and Tyson. Those two are awesome people, who make awesome food, and play am awesome FRIENDS trivia game. It was great to lay in bed till 10am, take naps whenever we needed, and sit on the couch for hours. Truly.
Something that I'm grateful I learned during the Texas installment of the trip is Matt's hopes and dreams for the future. Like what he really, Really, REALLY wants to do and be when he grows up. He really does want to have his own sound recording studio in the home, and sell recording sessions, and mix the recordings, and go to places and do sound recordings. And have it set up awesome, and have awesome gear, and market his sound recording studio as an awesome place to record. I guess he better retire as a "Full Bird Colonel" to help make this dream come true ;)
Pictures the last part of the trip:
- My bruise from Tough Mudder's blasted "Berlin Walls"
- Flat Lubbock, TX
- Baby Jaxson and family
- Us four together
We really enjoyed our week trip together. It was a lot of fun, and WOW did we do a lot! I'm not sure our next trip together will be so action packed, but hopefully it'll be just as fun. We do wish we had two more day in Phoenix with our friends, and another day or two with Marcie and Tyson. But then that would have made our trip 10 to 11 days long, and we weren't up to that... nor were our kids, nor were the Grandparents that watched our kids.
The boys did mostly well with us gone. It was a bit difficult for me leaving them, and I actually had nightmares about them the first two nights away. I think it would have been a little bit easier if I knew that Titus (19 months) and Eli (2 and a half years) understood what me and Matt were doing.
And our next "big" trip? Well we kind of have it in our minds to go to New York, New York sometime around 2015... We shall see!
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