Okay, just got back from a long weekend helping Brian Godinez celebrate his 50th birthday in McAllen Texas. What a blast. Pam, Risa, Laney and I took off late Thursday, showed up in Corpus Christi, rented a piece of crap Cavalier and drove to McAllen. About 1:30AM woke Brian and LaLa up and quickly crashed.

Friday, 4:30 AM. Brian grabs Cliff (who fell off the wagon (14months worth) the night before and was a hurtin' unit) and me up. Drove to Leguna Somethinguna where we jumped on board with skipper Janey. She was a blast. Sun was still down, but we set out. Fished until around 1:30, caught about 15 trout, 1 red fish, and I nailed a flounder (ugly damn fish). Drank a couple beers and got damn hot.

Friday after making it back to the house, got ready and went over to Aunt Judy's for a night of celebrating with kids and full family. Judy has an amazing party house, with a pool and a party building (pool table, foosball table, the works. Kids had so much fun in the pool. Drank beer (not the kids...) and then went back to Brian's place. Drank a buttload of tequilla (brian had jiggers rather than shot glasses, so those 4 shots were really 6!). Got yelled at by Pam for being loud, and then passed out around 2:30AM.

Saturday morning --- ouch...breakfast, ouch, a couple hour nap, and then back into action. Prepare for the adult party which was held at a bar on the Rio Grande river overlooking Mexico. Great location, but damn hot. Drank, danced, roasted brian, the works. Fun, fun, fun.

Back to Brian's around 1:30 till 3AM with a few people, then to bed.

Sunday, not as painful, pretty much a hang out day. Dropped Omar and Astraya off at the airport, had a shrimp cocktail snack, it's hot like nobody's business, up to 105 down here. Shikes. Cooked up our fish (about 1/4 of it served 6 of us!), felt like a man!

Sunday around 8PM pack the kids and pam in the car and head back to Corpus. On the way, nearly have a head-on collision with an idiot trying to pass a semi. Scared the poop out of us...I just held 'er steady and let him pass us--head-on-- on our right! Pam calls 911 and tells on the idiot.

Around 10:30 get to CC and grab a Holiday Inn.

Monday (today), about 5AM, alarm starts going off...need to catch a 6:55 flight to ATL. No problems, drag ourselves there and hop on the plane. About 11, show up in ATL and head home to drop the kids in daycare so I can run errands (car registration, groceries, laundry, car inspection...oh, and test drove an '01 Z06 vette...very fun, but they want $36K for it...).

Tomorrow, back to work...