“Aye, There’s the Rub!”

The weather was great: high 70’s to low 80’s every day with blue sky and sunshine. We had a chance to meet my sister’s new baby, Zoe May. My wife and I also had the honor of being her Godparents at her baptism. 

My daughter Rachel had wanted to check out Texas A&M University in College Station, about a 3 hour drive south and east of Dallas. We had a tour around campus, and Rachel was able to sit down with somebody from the Agriculture/Business Department, and the Equine Sciences Department. We were impressed by the school-particularly how clean and well-maintained everything was. It had to be without a doubt, the cleanest large university campus that I have ever seen.

We also had a chance during our stay to go the old Stockyards area in Fort Worth, which has a lot of shops and restaurants. It’s a bit too” touristy” for my son Ian’s taste, but as I pointed out: we ARE tourists.

After a week of eating way more food and drinking more beer than I usually do, I felt more than a little bloated coming back-and yes, I was still able to fit the workouts in, but when you are eating my sister’s food and going to Mexican restaurants, that can undermine any attempts at trying to maintain fitness. I feel like I can stay on Slim-Fast all week just to purge my system of all of what we ingested.

It was a good week. We had a good time-now we are back to the reality of the Twin Cities in March: weather in the 40’s with cold rain.

The only downer, was that I missed the last couple of games in the Six Nations Tournament, and I have not had a chance to watch what I recorded to be able to comment on Ireland’s first Grand Slam in 61 years-although their last game with Wales sounded like it was a helluva game with Wales having a chance to snatch a win at the end.