Cheerio!

My sister left yesterday for her six- month stint in England. My family (the original Hall 5) were all in DFW over the weekend to wish her farewell.

We had a great weekend! We did some shopping, eating, and drove out to the lake on Sunday. (We literally just drove to the lake, though--we didn't actually do anything ON the lake! :) But, it was a good time!

We hope Linds has a great experience and a lot of fun in the UK. (And, we hope she finds a place to live soon!)

Here she is right before we went to the airport with her ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY POUNDS of luggage (not including her carry-on bag/purse). Taking 180 lbs of luggage with you wouldn't be such a big deal if you didn't have to schlep it from the airport to the train station (tube?) , then onto the train, then from the train to the hostel. Man, I wish I had been able to witness that experience! :)

And, here is our weird family picture with all of Lindsay's luggage. I can't explain why we thought crowding around suitcases was a kodak moment!

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In completely unrelated England news, tonight I cooked meatloaf. Sorta. I didn't have all of the ingredients for my usual meatloaf (which is totally awesome, by the way), so I combined about 3 different meatloaf recipes using what I had on hand and made some version of meatloaf--or what was supposed to be meatloaf.

When Landry sat down at the table, she said "this doesn't look like antelope."

I said, "honey, it's not antelope."

And she said, "I mean cantaloupe."

I said, "it's not cantaloupe, either."

She said, "what is this again?"

I said, "meatloaf".

She said, "oh". Then, she looked at it as if I had just served her a plate full of vomit and said, "Well, it certainly doesn't look like meatloaf. Are you SURE it's not antelope?"