Dallas - Texas

  Dallas, Texas, United States
Sunday, July 8, 2007

We reached Dallas in the late afternoon,  sent the car for a proper car wash, and headed back to May's home.  Naturally, the first person we like to meet the most was baby Emma.  She was 12days old and we would like to see if she had grown over the past few days of her life, silly us.  To our surprise, Emma indeed had sort of solidified from her earlier fragile self.  She appeared to have grown in length; could it be that or was it just an illusion?  Hmmm!....must have been those salty air that I had been breathing in for the past eight days.  Ling finally have enough nerves to cradle Emma in her arms.

Car Wash

Yawn Again!

Yawn!

Happy Feet

Finally Victorious

Nikki

Wade whipped up a mean Steak Dinner for us and it was superb.  After dinner, it's Show-and-Tell Time with mum and May.  We captured a little over 2000 snapshots throughout our escapade and it took quite awhile to plow through all of them.

Steaks

Steak Dinner

Show-and-tell Time

Nikki was not threatened at all with the arrival of a new baby, in fact she appeared to be protective over baby Emma.  I supposed, Nikki saw Emma as her fraternity sister.  The two would established a strong bond in time to come but the story had a bereft ending.

(09-07-07)  DEPARTURE DAY

After all the fun and joy that we had, it's was finally time for us to leave "The Land of the Free"; and go back to "The Home of the Depraved".  We thanked Wade for the fantastic time we had and I bid Nikki adieu.  She gave me  repetitious licks on my face as I picked her up for the last time.  It was a herculean effort on my part to finally put her down.  That was the last time I saw Nikki alive.  A few months later, I received the tragic news from May about Nikki's untimely passing.  We were all heartbroken to hear that news.  We wish Nikki a happy life in doggy's heaven.

Lotsa Licks

We had breakfast at a nearby shop with Emma making her debut to the public for the first time.  After a typical American breakfast, May sent us to Dallas Fort Worth Airport to catch an American Airline flight to Newark.  We bid mum, May and especially Emma farewell at the airport and got on the way.

First Car Ride

Tiny Baby Emma's Feet

First Public Appearance

Breakfast Time

May

Dallas Fort Worth

Our Ride to Newark

On the way