Hi Sue and everyone! We are home also, and dragging, but also smiling about our wonderful memories of a near-perfect vacation. I hope the rest of the CROSSers have made it home or will get there soon. DFW had a power/computer outage this morning, we heard, so all incoming and outgoing flights were delayed. Sue, you mentioned Denise and Alan. They were on our flight and last I saw them they were sprinting off the plane to get to their ongoing flight. Hopefully all went well.

Back to reality. In the mountain of mail was a notice that one of our credit cards had been compromised and therefore was canceled. The new cards were in the mail and I now have activated them. For dinner we scrounged in the freezer, wondering aloud where Eric, Felix and Felino were to serve us. Sigh. Tomorrow laundry and other chores beckon.

One great bit of reality is the excitement with which our two dogs greeted us, spinning and jumping and barking and generally making us feel terrific. Even the cat dropped his aloof demeanor to say hi. Couldn't be a better welcome home!