This last weekend I went to
El Paso with Melanie.
Both of her (full) brothers graduated from UTEP.
Good job Brian and Eddie!
I had a good time.
Melanie has a very large and close family who are all great!
Make sure to hug everybody when you leave or people will get upset.
I ate way too much!
I think all I did was eat all weekend.
Saturday night the day of graduation we went to dinner with Melanie’s Dad’s side of the family at State Line BBQ.
It’s right on the boarder of
New Mexico and
Texas.
Sunday we went to Melanie’s grandparents on her Mom’s side.
They had a pot luck lunch and again I ate too much.
In fact I’m still full!
On my way to
El Paso I sat by the window seat.
I saw
Abilene from 30,000 ft which made me miss the old days.
What was cool is that there are now Windmills out there.
What’s crazy is that the Windmills go from
Abilene to Sweetwater!
I think this is pretty cool and
West Texas is a great place to put Windmills.
They should put them all over the Panhandle, it’s windy as shit in
Lubbock!
Texas is the #1 wind powered state in the
U.S. At least we’re doing something right.
Tonight I went to an Indian food restaurant with a bunch of people I use to work with in
Michigan: Raj, Durga, Annie and Erica.
We all worked together in
Michigan and now again here in
Harrisburg.
Raj’s birthday was last Sunday so we treated him to his choice.
Can’t remember the name of the place but it was something local.
It was BYOB and we all finished off 3 bottles of wine pretty easy.
We just hung out and talked until 10pm and where the last ones to leave.
We talked to the owner as we where leaving and she tough Erica was Indian even though she’s Hispanic.
I think it’s funny because the same thing happened to Melanie at work with one of her coworkers.
I haven’t met any other Mellinger’s yet but supposedly they all live in
Pennsylvania.
A lot of them are Mennonites.
According to my parents there is a
Mellinger Church out hers somewhere that I’ll need to go visit.
Also my great great great grate grandfather is buried out here.
He fought in the American Revolution.
Of course this could all be false until I verify it.
I’ll let you know when I do.