Vacation 2011

We just wrapped up our summer vacation and as always it was an adventure.

This was our most adventurous road trip to date. According to Google maps we travelled a minimum of 1,543 miles or the equivalent of 28 hours of driving. This doesn't include the side trips we took which I would say added another 3 hours to our journey. Below is a map of our journey.

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Shelley's blog contains a day by day account of our journey so I will just refer to that. This was an adventure and had a western theme as we visited Dodge City Kansas, road horses in Colorado, visited an actual ghost town and then ended our journey in Amarillo.

I imagine our boys wish we were like other parents and just took them to Disney but someday I hope they appreciate the adventures we shared.

A Good Sports Year

This past year has been a pretty good sports year.

It started right at a year ago when TCU made it to the college world series. They lost but it was still a big accomplish.

Then it was followed by the Rangers making it to the World Series. Again they lost but it was a big accomplish.

Then TCU won the Rose Bowl.

Finally, last night the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA finals by beating the hated Miami Heat.

The last time there was a championship in Dallas was 12 years ago when the Stars won the Stanley Cup. The Stars won the Cup right after Shelley and I got married and in fact they won game 3 on the day we got married. So, it was only appropriate that the Mavs won on our 12 year anniversary.