I love southwest!!
...the airline, not the geographical region!! Well, maybe I could love the geographical region also, but I can't say for certain, because I've never really been there. But that may very well be all about to change. Why, you ask? Because southwestern airline just expanded all of their services (in particular, there are now many more flights to many new destinations out of Love Field airport, roughly 15 minutes from where I'm living), and all their flights are offered at incredibly affordable -- no, downright CHEAP prices. Well, the CHEAP is probably just because of this 2 day sale I happened to notice right in the nick of time, which means .... drumroll ... I'LL BE IN NYC FOR NEW YEAR'S EVE!!!! That's right, it's official. There had been some discussion amongst my old roommates and other close friends and I as to where we might possibly be able to get together for the holidays. We had it narrowed down to Chicago or New York. Since Chicago would have been closer for most people, and therefore perhaps a bit more affordable, New York was, sadly, was starting to look like merely a pipe dream. Until I discovered Southwest's sale, and the $36 plane tickets from Chicago to Long Island!! (I'm taking the $1 MegaBus from Detroit to Chicago to fly out with Anne and Baby). New York for less than $100!!! I still can't believe it!! So my holiday plans are (almost) set. But suffice it to say, come January 1st, 2007 ... I'll be in Times Square, someplace I've always wanted to spend New Year's, along with some of my best friends, and thousands of others!!
In other news, the San Antonio/Trinity college trip was a blast! I have some pictures on my camera, and Sheenna has some great pictures on hers, and eventually they will end up here, as will more details of the day. But for now, the gritty details: we had 8 highschool students who went, they were given lots of information and a great tour at Trinity, I saw a (dead) armadillo, the Alamo, and the RiverWalk (a full load of all-that-is-Texan), and we even stopped an Southwestern on the way home because Sheenna's old volleyball team from Hendrix University was playing in a tournament there, and she wanted to see her coach. Turns out DePauw was playing in that tournament as well, so I think I sufficiently shocked the ...poo outta a friend from AXO by randomly showing up at the end of her volleyball match all the way in Texas. It was great to see her, though, if even for all of a 95 seconds (Christina Dickerson).
And oh yes, one other noteworthy happening since my last post. It's been a couple of weeks ago now, but I met up with a couple, friends of our family, originally from Michigan, who moved to Dallas about 3 years ago. Actually, Rev. Gordon Nusz was the pastor who officiated(right word?) at my parents wedding, and who baptised me. He and his wife took me out for dinner, the Thursday before the San Antonio trip. When they picked me up, they didn't tell me where we were going. Halfway to downtown Dallas, they asked me if I was afraid of heights... Of course, after that, I knew immediately where we were going -- Reunion Tower. If anyone has ever seen a picture of the Dallas skyline, it's this great big ball. Yes, you heard (read) me. A ball on the skyline, all lit up, bright and glowing at night. In the ball there is a restaraunt. The floor layout is set up in a giant circle, with tables all along the circumfrence of the outter walls, which are all glass -- so I guess they're not walls at all, but windows. The floor rotates, so in the course of an hour, as you're eating, you can lookout over the city in every direction. First time I drove through Dallas with Priscilla, she pointed it out to me (well, the ball's a little hard to miss) and told me it was a restaraunt. From then on, I thought it would be cool to see it and eat there, but never actually though I'd get to -- or at least not so soon. But it was really nice. And not just the restaraunt, but reconnecting with the Nuszs as well. They invited me to come spend a weekend with them whenever I'd like, and asked if I would ever want to speak to the youth at their church about the US-2 program. So hopefully all of that will be able to happen before too long...
So that's about it for now.
sorry, stole this pic from the web. in the interest of not getting sued or whatever, it's from http://users2.ev1.net/~egrayfox/cyber/cyberlinks.html
1 Comments:
I think tx is the southwest...and this is coming from a southeasterner who knows tx isn't there...so, it's southwest
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