SEE ROCK CITY!!! (well Rock Springs actually)

i'm spending fall break out at my grandparents ranch in west texas and i don't want to leave... i love it so much here.   yesterday evening i went out and picked prickly pears and peeled them after supper (a rather arduous task, to be sure... best to wear gloves of some sort because those prickles get everwher).  i'm not quite sure what i'm going to do with them...
my mom called me around 11:30 on wednesday and said hey you want to go to the ranch this afternoon. and i was like yeah you didn't even have to ask...  so we left Shreveport around 7:30 and drove 8 1/2 hours and got here at 4 in the morning, came in and got in bed and surprised everybody in the morning!!

me, logiBear, and my little sis, Katelyn Rose

my cousin, Logan, is leaving for Iraq next week and this was the last time we would get to spend with him, and it was fabulous :)

we loooove our logan!!

we've had a ton of fun!!

yesterday a few of us decided to drive over to Rock Springs to check out the local scene.. well we set out on a mission: to find the shorter route.. like ole Chris Colom.  well we drove on all  the roads, all over the ranches between here and there, trying to find our way there... we were driving around for 3 hours trying to get to a town that was 27 miles away.   we would have been going around, so very lost, for longer except that we ran into one of the ranch workers (not literally) and he told us how to go...

one of the ranches, about the 3d time we passed it, i said stop i've got to go to the bathroom... i didn't know how long we'd be wandering around and i wanted to jump at the chance of a real bathroom while it was an option... well there wasn't anyone there but i was determined to use a bathroom and sure nuff' they had a big'ole nice out building with two full baths!!

when we finally got to town, in less than 2 minutes we were stopped at a garage sale and i bought my first pair of cowgirl boots for $12 :-)

(mother says i had some when i was little but that doesn't count...)

then we went for lunch at the tiny little bar-b-q place... sooo fabulous

and we met this deaf boy there, and i know a little so we talked to him a bit.. my uncle know a wee little bit too and his son, who's about the same age, knows a lot so he's going to get them together online so they can talk :-)

all in all it was a fun adventure... and it took us much less time to get back ;)

well tata for now!!