Coaching School

This last week we traveled with Eric to coaching school in Austin.  This is an annual conference for Texas High School Coaches. I have gone one time with Eric, last time it was in Austin, and he prefers to take me with him. This year since I was nursing Eleri, she had to come, and then he felt bad leaving Mali so we all just came along.  Here is a summary of our trip, and unfortunately I have NO pictures to capture the moments in time.

People we Saw (or happened to run into):

• Carrie, Dan, Luke, and Claire McCullough
• Andrea and Matt
• John, Katie, Ashlyn, and Paige Bimmerlee
• Kisha and Josh (MiMi and Papa too)
• Amarillo High Coaching Staff (of course)
• Brittany, Dan and Teague Arlitt (Sad we missed seeing Troy)
• Kathryn Bixler (She was in Brandon's grade in Ouray and we ran into her at the bridge on Congress and watched the bats with her)
• Aaron McNeely (nine30 alum and bass player; I ran into him in our hotel lobby the last morning)

Great food we ate:

• Joe T Garcia's in Ft. Worth
• America's Best Coffee
• Spaghetti Warehouse
• Chuy's!!!!!
• Rio Grande
• Rio Grande
• Eddie V's Riverside Grill (that was an experience that wasn't so great)

Things we lost:

• My camera (hence no pictures of the trip)
• Eric's credit card that all expenses were going on since the school reimburses them
• Mali's 1 hour old stuffed animal

Miles traveled:

• Amarillo to McCullough's home in Arlington, TX  359 miles
• McCullough home to Joe T's in Ft. Worth-30 miles round trip
• McCullough home to PGA superstore in Frisco-36.9 miles
• Frisco to downtown Austin-220 miles
• Hotel to outlets in Round Rock, lunch at Chuy's and back to hotel-42 miles round trip
• Austin to Amarillo- 513 miles

Things that we saw or experienced (some numbers may be an estimation):

• 1001 bats
• 26 wind mills
• 3 dead animals
• 30 outlets stores
• 127 cows, horses, goats, and sheep
• 1 golf course
• 1 4ft swimming pool
• 2 cozy queen beds
• 3 poopy diapers
• 1 new DVD player
• 3-times we watched/heard "Tinkerbell"
• 4-times we watched/heard "Horton Hears a Who"
• 6 spankings and 7 time outs 
• 16-ounces of Starbuck's decaf Cinnamon Dolce Latte's that I enjoyed each morning in our lobby!
• $5-cost of two buttons created by a deaf artist depicting the bats at Congress bridge.
• 21-average minutes of Eleri's naps during our trip.
• $21.65-cost of a new blankie for Mali
• 0 minutes of crying and complaining....way to go sweet girls!!!
• $$$ amount of money spent on a good family trip with lots of memories, although I need to add some dollar signs now that my lost, but found, camera is officially inoperable!