33 and counting!!

Well, we celebrated 33 years of wedded bliss yesterday. Actually, Bill's been married 50 years, but we won't go in to that.

We went to Dallas Sunday right after church and stopped at Elicia and Phillip's. We were all going out to eat at Pancho's because Bill has been craving Green Chili Stew for quite a while now.

One of the first times I remember going to Pancho's was when favorite sister and her husband had brought Mom down for a visit to Wills Point. We took them to Pancho's for dinner one night, and it was plain to see that Mexican food at that time was not one of their most favorite things.

The food that night was exceptionally hot, even Bill thought so, and for our poor little northern family, it was "a hot time in the old town". Will's neck started sweating and turned red and the red just crept all the way up to the top of his head. He was pretty rosy before we left. I don't think Mom was too crazy about it, either.

Of course, now they've all become old pros at eating Mexican food, so a Mexican restaurant is always a favorite place to go when they are here. Donna and Wil, I mean. Ma never was too crazy about it. Every time we'd have something for supper the slightest bit Mexican, Bill would haul out the jalepenos, and ask Ma if she wanted a few. Never could get her to try them.

Now, I said in the beginning that we were going to Pancho's to eat. Well----- we WERE going to. We all started out from Elicia's headed toward the restaurant. Josh, Phillip's son, and his girlfriend were following us, and somewhere along the line, he passed us.

It was only a few minutes later when we came up on his car in the middle of the road wrecked. A lady had crossed the street in front of him, and he ran into her. He laid some pretty fierce black marks trying to get stopped, but tore up the front of his car pretty bad. No one was hurt, thank the Lord, in either vehicle, and the other party admitted that she'd pulled out in front of him. She said that she just didn't see him.

Needless to say, that kind of took the "want to" out of going to eat, and besides that, we were going to run out of time. We wanted to head to Grand Prairie for the concert by no later than 6:00.

Come to find out later, Josh ended up driving the car home, they all got back together, and then went out to Pancho's to eat after all. I'm sure they enjoyed our Anniversary Dinner. Ha! Ha!

The Andre Rieu concert was wonderful. The Nokia Theater there in Grand Prairie is a beautiful place for something like that - seats all sloped upward, and great acoustics. He really put on a good show and we didn't get out of there until 10:30. The second to last song they presented as "Amazing Grace" and one of the ladies in the orchestra played the bagpipe. It was beautiful.

I mentioned to Bill on the way home how much I enjoy bagpipe music and that I'd really like to learn how to play one. I've priced them, though, and they're pretty expensive. His answer to all that was, "Well, you probably could play one. You've got plenty of wind!" Thank you very much!!!

But, we both enjoyed it and hope to be able to go again if he comes back to the US. If you aren't familiar with Andre Rieu, keep an eye on your PBS station. They show a lot of his concerts.

Well, that was the extent of our 33rd. anniversary, other than on the way home yesterday, we went to TaMolly's in Paris, TX. So, we had our Mexican food after all.

I posted a couple recipes earlier, so till next time,
JB