So close...!

We made it to Phoenix late Saturday night after an eventful day of driving... driving... driving... and more driving... whoopee. I have come to the conclusion that Texas is a whirling vortex of never ending highway and sand. At least the drive across interstate 10 has high desert and greenery to look at. Driving across interstate 40 is like purgatory; nothing but flat sand and wind from Dallas ever westward. Ugh.

I will say the cool thing about driving through Texas was when we got to El Paso and saw the Rio Grande from the highway, which is something I'd never seen before. We also saw the ridiculously huge Mexican flag flying over Juarez... woah. Quite proud, aren't they? We stopped for lunch/ dinner at a place in El Paso called Bonny's Cafe on Tyler's reccommendation, that had the biggest burritos you've never seen in your life! How does one person eat an 17 inch burrito?! We split one... delicious.

So, after crossing in and out of 3 time zones, 2 states and 4 tanks of gas, we made the trip in about 16 hours (including food and gas stops) from Austin to Phoenix... not too shabby.

This afternoon, Uncle Bill and Aunt Diane threw a wonderful BBQ at their house. Pretty much everyone made it out for the festivities, and we had a great time talking, eating and carrying on.

Tomorrow, we're going to hang with Grandad and Grandma Barb and then trot over to Grandma's before coming back to Uncle Bill's for Monday Madness!! (it's pizza night :o) )

We'll head out of here Tuesday morning, making one last stop before L.A. to see Josh's grandparents in Villa Park, CA.

From there it's second star to the right and straight on til morning! (well, straight on to LA, really...)