Kwik-E-Mart

Okay. So, I have been planning on writing a new blog about life in Oxford and how wonderful it is and how much we enjoy our new house and how Evelyn greatly prefers the half acre we now call home to the 10' x 12' patio that she previously had for a "yard." However, that crap can wait for another time.
Brigitte, Evelyn and I spent several days in Dallas last week visiting her family (as well as one day at her Uncle's ranch). If you know me I assume that you do not think of me and "Ranch" in the same sentence very often. However, once we actually got there I really enjoyed it. I do not know that I have ever seen that many stars in my life. It was very nice to go stand outside surrounded by 500 acres of nothing which is surrounded by countless more miles of essentially nothing. Lots of starts out that way. Brigitte wouldn't join me though becuase she is afraid of the dark...and it was dark there.
As nice as the ranch was, and as much fun as we all had seeing Brigitte's family, the best part of the trip was the 20 minutes I spent in the local 7-11. 20 minutes may sound like a long time, but when you are in one of the twelve 7-11s in the world that have been converted into Kwik-E-Marts to advertise the opening of The Simpson's Movie, well it goes by pretty quickly.
We drove by it accidentally and decided then that we would go back before we left Dallas. So, our last day in town Brigitte, Evelyn and I headed over with our silly expensive camera to take pictures of the 7-11. As you can see from my profile picture I had to problem standing out on Northwest Hwy. in a very busy part of Dallas having my picture taken with a gas station sign. Nor did I mind the confused looks I got by the various construction workers, doctors and other assorted individuals as I browsed the store taking pictures of every square inch of Simpsons goodness. I think that Brigitte probably got a bit embarrassed, but knew how much I was enjoying myself, so she let it go. We bought a Squishee for Evelyn and a case of "Buzz Cola" for myself to sit on some shelf that I do not currently own. Perhaps we can put it in the nice built in shelves that we have in the breakfast nook. I'm sure that Brigitte won't mind moving the nice glass pieces she has there.
Well, I will update on Oxford soon, but needed to let you all how much fun we had in 7-11 on Norhtwest Hwy. in the heart of Dallas. Gas stations are great!