Thank you! I haven't been to Texas in years, always loved it there, great people. I'm looking forward to returning there again one day as a traveller!
Brother Joshua, Welcome to the forum!
Hope you enjoyed that intense Olympic hockey match the other day. And, congratulations are probably in store for defending the metal although I was working hard in the fields of masonry today and did not catch the match.
I certainly hope your travels to Texas were not timed wrongly like my many visits to Calgary and Edmonton. Each year, for four years, I went on business trips to your fine province during February! Each year my fellow workers from Calgary and Edmonton were sent to Houston during the untimely latter days of August and early days of September! Each year, the management members of our traveling parties vowed that NEXT YEAR we were going to switch the timetable so that we could enjoy the weather.
Needless to say ... everyone suffered! I learned all about standing in the sunshine verse ducking into a shaded area. Too, I learned that a Canadian restaurant's dining area is ALWAYS superseded by the volume of it's coat and cloak room. Valet parking was never as appreciated as valet coat tending!
However, judging from the swollen red faces (and I would suspect feet and ankles) of my Canadian co-workers during the sweltering August heat of Houston, I think we from Texas got the better of it. Make no mistake, we all suffered, but they probably more than us.
Anyway, I enjoyed your province from Calgary, to Red Deer, to Jasper, to Edmonton. Got in a few hockey matches along the way and a few signatures from my favorite Edmonton players at their practice facility at the big mall where they have the indoor beach and submarine yard.
Hope you enjoyed the Lone Star as much as I did the Maple Leaf. You are fine people and I am proud to call you friends and Brethren.
God bless Canada and Canadians!