The Stars At Night, Are Big and Bright....

I’m sure you’ve all been waiting with baited breath for an update, but I can’t say I really have it in me to give a full one. Put it like this, Study Abroad ended (which was sad), I went to London for 4 days with my momma (which was fun), I was home for one night in NJ where I saw about 65% of the people who matter to me then I left the next morning to see another 5% of those people in Texas (Marissa).

Not having taken my April trip to NJ, I missed not only Shane’s birthday, but the chance to see Marissa in the tour of Ring of Fire. I decided to use a portion of my Continental eTicket to visit her in the final leg of the tour in Dallas this week. I thought it’d be a really fun culture shock to go from Rome, to London and then to the heart of America where I could not only get some Southern twang but also a little Tex-Mex in my life. The trip was really a great close to my travelling days of the Spring semester.

I arrived at Dallas-Fort Worth International on Tuesday morning at around noon and finally got to see Marissa close to 5:30. It was a great reunion and I was uber happy to see her. I saw the show that night which was really different from the Broadway incarnation I had seen 2 years ago but equally chock-full of Johnny Cash.

Yesterday we had vouchers to go to 6 Flags Dallas and only lasted through about 1.5 hours and 2 coasters with the extreme heat. “The Big Texan” basically knocked us around so much we felt like we had gone through a full night of drinking when Sunday night was quite the opposite. After that we hit the much smoother “Titan” up then decided to leave the park in lieu of some Tex-Mex at El Sol. Last night we went to what may have been the modern day version of the “Dallas” mansion. Julie (“older woman” in the cast)’s father’s cousin’s son had an amazing house near the hotel where they offered us an amazing party where we offered acoustic entertainment in return. In an outdoor ventilated kitchen leading to the pool and tennis court, we set up about 8 chairs where 6 acoustic guitars, a fiddle and an electric went through Janis Joplin to Fleetwood Mac. It was an amazing experience I wish I could have shared with my equally acoustically adept brother, Anthony. Here are a few highlights of the night: