Eric Herman - Travelblogue: 2008 Spring/Summer Tour

We went over to Roseann's brother Brent's house and had a great time there for most of the day. Roseann's cousin David and his family are also staying there while he is interning at a law firm in Dallas. The girls played with David and Crystal's 2 year-old daughter, Audrey, and watched The Tigger Movie (Tigger's family tree animated segment is a favorite of mine). Brent and Cheryl's 13 year-old son Daniel was eager to play me some of the cool new music riffs he's come up with. His older brother, Bruce, who now lives in Utah, has always been a fine musician and songwriter, and now Daniel is taking after him very well. He seems very excited to have an uncle who plays music for a living. I'm going to record some of his pieces on my laptop tomorrow.

We had a nice dinner and talked for a while about life, the universe and everything, then Becca treated a few of us repeatedly to one of her magic tricks... showing a marble, then making it disappear and reappear from your ear. I was quite impressed at how well she did it. Even when her technique wasn't entirely disguised, her magician showmanship was always very convincing. Magic is something I've always enjoyed, but never really had the knack for performing. It would be neat if Becca pursued that more. Seeing Becca performing her trick, Uncle Brent pulled out a number of his magic tricks and showed them to the kids.

Unfortunately, David had to work late, so it was bedtime before he got back. We'll have to catch up with him tomorrow, or when we come back through here again in a few weeks. We drove back to the RV park and all went to bed after doing some internet stuff.

The girls setting up a marble tower with Cheryl and Audrey...