Katie and I were going to go camping this past weekend for a short weekend getaway to kick off katie's vacation. However, when we found out that my parents were going to Dallas this weekend to visit our grandparents, we considered our options. Dallas - city boy things, air conditioning, movies, Texas state fair, comfy bed... or... Lake Degray - camping, one night only, setting up and breaking down, insects, 3 hour drive, lumpy sleeping bag. We chose Dallas.
To sweeten the deal, we called Hertz to try to reserve a mustang for the weekend. We had to call the local branch directly (the national number said they didn't have mustangs, when I'd seen them there previously). They didn't have any in, but they told us they'd call if any came in on Friday. A day and a prayer later, on Friday, we got a call from Hertz saying they had a mustang in. I hung up the phone, tuned my ipod to Queen's We Are the Champions and put my arms in the air.
When we went to pick-up the mustang, Katie dropped me off at the pick up counter where those suckers at Hertz were gonna hand over the keys for a weekend to me. When I was giving the girl my info, she asked if I wanted the convertible (extra $$$). The convertible, you say? Ma'am I drive a 1997 accord that bucks like an epileptic rodeo horse when it shifts gears and makes a hideous rattling noise when you turn. I believe I'll take the convertible.
So, Katie and I headed home with the mustang, loaded cosmo into the backseat and headed to Dallas. The car was a thing of beauty and the ride down was great. Hertz was kind enough to provide sirius satellite in the car, so while Katie was working her sudoku puzzle and cosmo was snoozing in the back, I was listening to my old standby Sirius Blues 74. Things almost became too perfect when Howlin Wolf's Smokestack Lightning came on the radio at just about sunset. Could things have been any better...? It's hard to imagine.
The rest of the weekend was pretty good, and great when driving the mustang. We visited with the grandparents, went to the state fair (big mistake, during the Texas vs. Oklahoma game... 68,252 extra people at the fair waiting to be let into the game.), watched hoodwinked (great movie), and relaxed.
Visit my flickr page to see a few of the pics from the weekend.
Posted by Jordan at October 10, 2006 8:07 PM | TrackBack