Ft.Worth--Finally

Whew! We finally made it to Ft. Worth!! When we got up this AM I-20 was still closed so we went the back way from Abilene-Brownwood-Bangs-Cisco and then to I-20. We got in late this afternoon. The road was still icy most of the way. The total of ditched cars------73.

When we got to our room there were Christmas presents, brought to the hotel by our daughter. Bittersweet. I am sure they are having a wonderful Christmas in Oklahoma with their family.

Tomorrow afternoon late, it is off to Vienna. We will arrive in London at 7:40 then another 2 hour flight to Vienna. The adventure begins!

No pictures today--just more icy roads and ditched cars! I will continue the trip on the blog on January 4th--too expensive to blog, text or talk on the phone from Europe.

Off to Europe--gotta get to DFW first though!!

Our flight to Munich isn't until the 26th,

but we decided to go to Dallas on the 24th so

we wouldn't be traveling on Christmas.

We woke up to a surprise this AM--Snow.

Due to the weather we put off leaving until 11:00AM. By then we thought the wind and the snow would have stopped and the ice would have melted off the streets.

The snow stopped--but the snow didn't melt and the streets were icy and treacherous.

We made the first tracks down the alley-----------------------------------

Down our street---

Past the house and onto Hwy 84---we followed the "Casket Truck" foreverrrrrrrrrrr

The snow let up but the ice and snow on the roads did not.

Fortunately Jim has done a lot of driving on icy roads and we didn't end

up in the ditch like the 51 cars we counted on the roadside did.

They evidently didn't know the

SNOW RULE #1: Drive slowly and don't use your brakes!!

Tomorrow we only have a 3 hour drive to Dallas------or do we?

Snow on Christmas Eve

We woke up to about 6 inches of snow and STILL snowing. It was to be Maisie's first Christmas with us. It would have been perfect, snow on Christmas Eve especially for her. Jim was going to wear his Santa Costume--we were looking forward to this Christmas so much!! She will still get snow probably, it looks like it is going to snow in Ft. Worth too.

Looking out the front door--Oh that newspaper look sooooooooooooooooooo far away!!