Picking up Fernando's car

Saturday morning, Linda and Jacob came over to our house to join us on our drive up to Greenville to pick up Fernando's car, which has been stored at John and Elaine's house.

We left around 9am, stopped for lunch at Chick Fil A in Temple, then when we got close to Dallas, found that the highway was jammed up with cars.  So, we quickly looked over the maps since we were fairly close to Greenville by then hoping to find an alternate route.  We found one that took us through Terrell, where we stopped for snacks and then took the little country road up to Greenville.  Actually, the road we took up to Greenville is the very road that John lives off of but we drove past where we'd turn off to get to his house and instead drove on to get our hotel.

After looking at the hotel we thought we'd stay at - and deciding against it - we drove around a little more and settled on the Hampton Inn, which turned out to be a GREAT choice.  We called John after we had settled in and made plans to meet them at their house.

We sat around with them for a little while at their house talking with John and Elaine, and sometimes James and Amy.  We had a nice time talking with them and then we went outside and took a few pictures.  The weather was colder than we thought it was going to be!  John and Elaine lent us jackets!!

With this picture I'm taking the picture and trying to figure out the timer on the camera.

This test of the timer worked, but some people were caught with their eyes closed.

Everyone's eyes are open this time, but John's head got cut off a little.

Then we went out to eat at a place in downtown Greenville called the Landon Winery - the food was delicious!  Very enjoyable meal we had there.  Then we took these pictures outside the restaurant.

This one without flash...

This one with flash.

Then we drove to a park close to their house - a very nice park with a playground that is every kid's dream.  It had absolutely anything a kid could want to play on.  Jacob had a blast there.  James wanted to show me the pond at the park, so we both walked over there.  Very nice.  We stood on the little pier for a while listening to the sounds of the pond and watching a few birds.  We all had a very nice evening.