The Playmates!

Well, you have to be involved with my family to know the story of the "Playmates" so dubbed I beleive by Sandra! Anyway, Robin and I did set up a 'Playdate' for the Playmates and here are
some pics! I might get some more some day, but beleive me, it was fun. Neither Joe or Lorraine, nor Martin or Edith figured out what was going on.
decided that they ought to meet again. So here all the planning began. We booked the same hotel and I had to convince my parents that we were going to Amarillo because my dad alwaysAs Joe and Lorraine were going to be in Hereford and my parents were going to be in Abilene we wanted to eat at the "Big Texan". He didn't know the name of the place but that it was a place where one can eat a BIG STEAK (72 oz. in 1 hr.). I also wanted to see the Caddilac Ranch and so we were going to take on us the 5 hr car ride to Amarillo. We did stop on the way in Lubbock to do some wine tasting, all as a ruse so they wouldn't figure it all out. I never mentioned Hereford until we were going to have to drive their to check into the hotel.
As we got to town it really smelled as their was a feedlot on each side of the road with plenty of 'Steers', just imagine the smell worse then a dead skunk! My mom finally said she knew where she knew Hereford from. Annie, Robin's daughter, lives there and she sent a postcard with the address. I assured her we could look up the phone number once at the hotel. So at the hotel I called her room and told my mom that plans had changed and to please come down and we would go to meet some of Dan's clients first. Of course we had plans to meet our friends at their relatives house.
First we drove wrong and had to call and got picked up at the hotel and let to the place. Going in

there was funny as they had many relatives visiting and my parents got really confused, especially when they realized someone looked like their friend Art. Then of course they saw Joe & Lorraine, Annie, Art & Robin. As Joe & Lorraine had no idea either they were just as surprised to see Dan and me and my parents.







We spend some fun hours together at Annie & James's house and then went to the hotel where we slept and all had breakfast in the morning.


















Had to take a picture of the "only cow that kept still for us"!

Then Annie took us to see her classroom at the high school.














Then out to the cotton fields to see James and his Dad and to get a lesson in planting and shearing (?) cotton. This was fun.

After this great day we had to head another 5 hrs back to Abilene!