Easter afternoon

Who is the cute young lady in the photo?  Somebody sure was having fun hunting Easter eggs!

Aren't the rolls cute?  Ah, they were delicious!  They were so easy to make and added a bit of whimsy to the meal.

I had fun creating the tablescape.  I used green moss to fill the center of the table and added a bunny and alabaster eggs.  Chelsea added the bling to the bunny!  Thanks Chelsea!

Those old clothes, new luggage, and Walgreens......

The scenery on our flight was ever changing.  We flew over rivers, deserts, flatlands, and snow capped mountains.  Our flight arrived in San Francisco ahead of schedule, and we were truly excited to be at our destination.

We went to the baggage claim area to retrieve our luggage.  We waited around for a few minutes and finally bags of all shapes and sizes began to roll out.  We watched and waited and watched and waited, but our bags never appeared.  Sigh.  Everyone else on our flight had taken their bags and departed.  There we stood, pitiful and bagless.

My brother and husband spoke to someone with the airlines and they assured them our luggage was accounted for and it would be arriving soon.  We switched flight destinations from Sacramento to San Francisco, and of course our luggage had gone on to Sacramento.  They said our luggage would be delivered to our hotel that evening between 8 and 9.  Well, it wasn't.  We stayed up until midnight awaiting our luggage arrival and finally just slept in our travel clothes.

Oh what a miserable night.

The next morning, my husband called the airlines and found out that our luggage ended up on a United flight.  We flew American.  Once again we were assured our luggage would be delivered to our hotel.   (Imagine Sonia moaning.....)

I HAD to have clean clothes!  I was a desperate woman!  My good husband insisted he could find me some clothes. 

It was still fairly early and "shops" weren't open yet.  The hotel clerk sent my husband to Walgreens to buy me some clothes.  Ahem.....Excuse me?  My husband left the hotel for his shopping adventure.  I stayed behind locked in the room wearing rumpled clothing.  I finally had to venture out for fresh, cool air and well, I didn't have a room key to get back into our room!  Imagine Sonia moaning again.......

Oh y'all!  You can't imagine the joy, and I do mean sheer joy when my wonderful husband returned to the hotel with a brand new sweat shirt and brand new sweat pants!  Oh, and "personal items" as well.  He was beaming.  He pulled the sweat shirt out of the bag first.  It was gray.  Yes!  Gray tshirts and gray sweat shirts are always the softest, right?  Then he started pulling the sweat pants out of the bag....and he pulled.....and he pulled....they just kept coming!  He apologized as he held them up. "4 X was the only size they had", he said.  Oh my, oh my, oh my!  I started laughing and couldn't stop!  At that moment I didn't care what size they were.  Those sweat pants were clean, new, and soft gray.

The sweat pants are now the official "traveling pants".  I proudly wore them all across Northern California that day.  I will insist that anyone I know take them along on their next vacation.  I'm anxious to see how far these pants will travel.  

Willie in the morning

5 a.m. arrived quickly.  We were up and in a hurry to get on the road to the metroplex to pick up my brother.  It was a big day for us.  We were going to San Francisco!  Old clothes packed in new luggage.

When we arrived at DFW, we checked our bags.  Our plane would be landing in Sacramento and we had a rental car awaiting our arrival.

 We went to get our boarding passes.  While we were in line, they announced that they needed a couple of people to go on standby.  Our flight was overbooked.  My brother had a discussion with the airline personnel and then a discussion with my husband and me.   We made the decision to give up our seats and board the next flight to San Francisco.  Since we voluntarily gave up our seats on the flight, the airline gave us $900 in vouchers to use on another flight!  Yea!  Then we changed our rental car from Sacramento to San Francisco and saved another $200!  Not bad, huh?  We were almost giddy.  What a great beginning for our vacation!

And then......I looked up.  A familiar face. An entourage and "little sister".   It was Willie!  I have seen Willie on several occasions, but always at night.  Always strumming his guitar with his hair in braids, singing I'll Fly Away, Amazing Grace, and Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain.  David Alan Coe and other "boys"  usually accompanied Willie in a pasture or expo center.  But this was different.  This was WILLIE IN THE MORNING! Hair flowing down his shoulders and back.  Oh, I squealed like a thirteen year old.  I fumbled in my purse trying to put my hands on my camera and then forced my husband to take some pictures.  

The first morning of vacation was exciting!  Just wait until you hear what happened next.........

O Happy Day!

The first words I heard this morning were, "they're here..."

I got out of bed, changed into my sweats, went to the living room and peered out the window. There they were!  Men!  In my backyard!  I was so excited.  They were scurrying about, lunging and bending. Busy men.

I made some coffee and watched some of my favorite Saturday morning cooking shows.  All the while, going back and forth to the window....to watch "the men"...those busy men!

After only a couple of hours, they were gone.

O Happy Day!  Look what they did!