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Happy New Year!

We're back in Texas after a two-day roadtrip. Highlights include:

• Discovering that 429 North does not, in fact, lead to the Florida Turnpike.


• The resulting detour through Mount Dora, Eustis, Tavares, Leesburg, Wildwood, etc.
  
• The detour not mattering because I-75 was jammed with Georgia Bulldog fans returning from the bowl game.
  
• One silver Prius taking an alternate highway north to Tallahassee through the rolling hills and past the numerous horse farms of Central Florida.


• Pulled-pork sandwiches at BubbaQue's BBQ in Bronson, Florida (also home to the Mother Clucker Sandwich).


• Waking to a cool, overcast morning in Baton Rouge and crossing over a river shrouded by a dense fog.


• A van full of what we can only describe as Gypsies at a gas station, including barefoot children and small puppies playing amongst the pumps.


• After not spying a Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts for almost 300 miles, pulling into a McDonald's in eastern Texas and receiving FREE McCafe coffee drinks!

Now that we're home in Rice Village, it's the calm before the storm: even though Garrett received a-MA-za-zing grades for his first semester, he fears he'll be pummelled in the second. To be fair, his already oppresive workload will double. On New Year's Eve, we discovered a mistake in Trivial Pursuit! It didn't mention the Moops (Seinfeld reference!), but said the French and Indian War took place twenty years too late. Kristin and Harper are shocked and appalled!