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During Marcia’s February break, we flew to Dallas, Texas to visit
David’s cousins. This was
Miranda's last semester at Albany College of Pharmacy. We
drove there, met her, and she dropped us off at the airport and
took care of our car while we were gone. We flew to Dallas/Fort
Worth Airport through Cleveland.
We had a rental car waiting and set off for Mesquite, a suburb of
Dallas. Sally, David’s only known second cousin lives there with
her 103 year-old mother, Ruth Knutty. Click
here to read David's genealogical ramblings about having only one
second cousin.
It had been several years since we have seen Sally and Ruth and
probably close to 40 years since David had seen Sally's son, Rick.
Marcia had never met Rick. We were not tremendously close as kids,
so this was really the first time David and Rick met as adults. We had a great time visiting and
getting reacquainted and thoroughly enjoyed the time we spent together.
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We also got to see some of the sites of the Dallas
area like the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. This is the
museum at the former Texas School Book Depository Building, now known as
the Dallas County Administration Building, the JFK assassination
site. We also toured the grounds at the Dallas
South Fork Ranch. Rick is a
landscape architect with the city of Dallas, and although he couldn't
accompany us, he gave us all the advice and directions we needed.
As fate would have it weather in the northeast was not good on the
morning of Friday the 22nd, when we were scheduled to fly out. As
we arrived at the airport at 5 AM, we were greeted by signs telling us
that our flight to Cleveland was cancelled. We were told that we
could get a flight out the next morning. We graciously informed
the personnel there that this was not a favorable option and after a few
phone calls and pleasant conversations with supervisors, we were
scheduled to fly out a few hours later through Atlanta.
When we reached our gate and discussed our flight with an agent
there, she muttered something about what was wrong with the personnel at
the front counter. Within a few minutes we were at a different
gate and within an hour or so, we were on a flight to JFK.
Fortunately, Delta puts there capable people at the gates and only
promotes the less informed to supervisory positions! We were in
New York City by 11:30 or so and scheduled on a flight to Albany at
1. The weather took another bad turn, however, and we never left
JFK until after 4. We actually were fortunate because ours was
only one of four that left JFK that day. We were back in our car
with Miranda by 5:30. The trip to our car was quite quick because
we didn't have to carry our luggage. They had lost that, along
with the luggage of everyone on this flight. It was delivered to
our home Sunday morning, completely intact.
This was Miranda's 23rd birthday. We had planned on eating
lunch with her and then heading home but due to the delays, we had
dinner instead. After taking her back to her apartment, we headed
north, arriving back in Edwards around midnight.
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