WE'RE DONE

We got relieved from our gate Thursday afternoon and headed back to the yard in Whitsett. We told Mark, the manager, that we would like to take the weekend off as we wanted to go up to San Antonio and visit with our niece Ally and her husband Paige and their new baby boy Finnegan.
We went up Saturday about noon and had a very nice visit with them, heading back home about 5 pm. We stopped for dinner at an Italian eatery on the way.
Monday morning I took the truck into Pleasanton for an oil change, and while waiting got a call from Diane at the office saying they had a rig for us. That means they had a new assignment for us at an oil rig. These are plum jobs and are usually pretty busy. But I told her that we would like to pass on it, and that we would like to not take another job. I asked her if that would be a problem and she said that she could find someone else to take it.
After getting back to the yard, Linda and I went to the office and made it official that we would be leaving later in the week. We did ask if it would be ok if we stay here until Linda got her crown for the tooth she broke and they said o.k..
That should be sometime this week and if so we will leave here on Friday and head out. Not sure where yet, but I do want to do the JOHNSON SPACE CENTER  and spend a few days in the Houston area sightseeing. Here is a link    http://spacecenter.org/
We told them we would be back about March 10th for about three weeks.
Hope all is well with you
Love to all of ya
Jim and Linda