Texas Wedding - Part 2 - The Aftermath

After the wedding and reception, we moved from our hotel rooms over to Dan's house. He and Leslie are super kind and generous hosts! Here's K6 "chilling" out by the pool in the early morning hours...before the temperature reached 100 F, again.

K7 and K8 grew up with Dan's daughter Sarah and son Matt, two great young people.

Kids spent the rest of the weekend in the pool. Sarah gave swimming lessons to the little girls, and the boys did several versions of throwing and catching a football while airborne over the water.

It is only fitting that the "larger than life" Texas hero, General Sam Houston,  have a king-size statue. It's located in Huntsville, along I-45. Just a few minutes after this photo was taken by K8 from his side of the truck, we had a little problem that delayed our trip home...

...we had a flat tire. Not normally a big deal, but this is a Toyota truck - great in every respect except in the design of it's spare tire. It took both K8 and I a full 30 minutes of fighting it to finally get the cheesey 3-piece crank rod to lower the spare. Once we had it out, the cheesy little lug wrench would not loosen the lug nuts, so we could not get the flat tire off! I called USAA roadside. Usually they are great, but not this time. We waited a total of 3 hours on the side of the road, laden with slow moving bumper to bumper traffic right next to us, because they closed one lane for construction right after our flat! Great timing! During that 3 hours, the temperature went from 91 to 101 F. We had water bottles and a slight breeze. We survived. USAA did not send a truck from Huntsville which was only 2 miles behind us. No, they sent a truck from New Caney, which is over 45 miles south! And he was stuck in traffic the whole way. Incredible. The pleasant young guy in the tow truck arrived and gave us ice cold water. He weighed about 300 pounds and had the right tool to get lug nuts off. As he arrived, a lady pulled up behind us with a dying car, and she was in tears asking him for help getting a tow to Dallas! That just goes to show you that no matter how bad things may appear to be, someone else is really having a worse day than you.
I am buying the "right tool" to carry in my truck, and we no longer put the spare tire under the truck. It's in the bed where we can get it out in a minute. All in all, no complaints. It was worth it to make this trip. 

Because we were Blessed to see K5 and Jeremiah sealed for time and eternity in the Temple. 

And, in spite of the occasional bumps along the road of mortal life, everybody lived happily ever after!