In the home stretch

This is the last night of our stay in the States this trip. Tomorrow night we're to be crossing the Atlantic back to Lisbon, and from there to Madeira on Friday. The pilots for TAP, the national airline, have scheduled a strike for tomorrow and Friday...whee! The word is that the flights to Madeira will not be affected, however. Our experience of numerous strikes in the past leads us to think we should be prepared for anything. Even if the island flights are going, there'll be thousands of stranded passengers at the airport trying to get somewhere. Ah, yes...we're going to feel we're right back home.

I've included some pictures of Mia, one showing her walking outside with the aid of her "walker". The blue chalk marks on the sidewalk are bear tracks I drew from the street to the door for her birthday party Saturday. It will be interesting to see how long they last.

The other pictures show her with us, her folks and with her Uncle Jeff (sans bear suit--see previous post). 

We've enjoyed our stay with Jeff and Liz here in Dallas, although Liz's busy schedule at the hospital, where she's in her 3rd year of residency as a surgeon, meant we didn't see her as much. While we were eating out tonight, she got a call from the hospital and had to leave in the middle of the meal, right after this photo.