I arrived in Grand Prairie, Texas just outside of Dallas a few days early in order to beat the storms that were being mentioned on the weather reports. I didn't like that I had to leave my friend Sheila's home a few days early because I was really enjoying the country life.
Look at those colorful smiles from Sheila and her baby daughter Zoe, who made me a special watercolor painting of a blueberry, they are beautiful.
Sheila and I went for a couple of walks down long, winding country roads and it was very peaceful and it made me feel rejuvenated afterwards.
The critters we encountered were interesting and the signs scared me a little!
Sheila found the most beautiful Luna Moth I had ever seen!
Unfortunately I lost many of my last pictures from the camera card I had. I ended up buying new cards and hopefully this won't happen again.
I arrived in Grand Prairie safely and was greeted by my cousin Jorge. He is my Mothers nephew and it had been years since I had seen him and his family. Jorge needed to go back to work and I went along with him. He works for a large contractor that is almost finished the construction of UT Southwestern New hospital. He showed me around the building and it's such an incredible new facility.
He took me to the rooftop thirteen floors up in order to get a view of Dallas' skyline and the immense open space open around it.
After getting Motel Miguel situated for the duration he started showing me the city and some of its attractions.
The Dallas Cowboys Stadium where we got to go inside for a few minutes and I just had to do some silly stuff like slide down the staircase railing!
Then we moved on to the Rangers baseball team stadium where they were preparing for a game and let me step inside through a side door for a photo. A group of young men who are known as the cone crew jumped into my picture!
After this we went out front where more silliness continued and that's where the first photo of this post was taken on the giant baseballs.
Family time has always been important in our family and on Saturday my cousins daughter had a birthday celebration in her honor.
It's always fun observing children enjoying a cake and all the singing that comes along with a celebration.
On Sunday my cousin and three of his children took me over to Ft Worth so that I could see part of the city. We didn't know that a large street art festival had been going on all weekend and we got there towards the very end. We walked around and enjoyed what was left of it.
The of my four second cousins Ismael, Alejandra and Judith!
Some of the cars at the festival were amazing.
Once again life has shown me how colorful it is and I just need to take the brush and paint it as bright as I want to!
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