St Patrick’s Day and what a day lol.
We packed the car up, had breakfast and then handed the swipe cards in at the Front Desk. The lass said ‘oh, you are checking out a day early’ we said ‘don’t think so’, Maria dashed off to get her paperwork from out of the car, and guess what, it was a day early! What a laugh we had! Whilst we were waiting for Maria, one of the receptionists said ‘I do love your accent’ which then prompted the ‘but we don’t have an accent, you do!’ She was amazed at this and the accent conversation continued!
We then returned all our belongings to our room and then headed out to MHQ to pick up the virtual puppies and then headed out for a nice trail of aquamarines. Well, the sky was very dark and it got darker. We had parked and walked a little way when we decided that it was time to turn around and the rain started, not too heavy, but we were a little damp by the time we got back to the car. Headed off to finish some of another garden we needed to do and then as the weather wasn’t looking much better, thunder and lots of lightning we decided to go to Denton, about a 50 minute drive, and tackle the green wheelchair virtual garden over the grounds and surrounds of the University of North Texas. The rain had eased off and had almost stopped, until we turned on to the highway and we were headed for some very dark clouds! Well, the heavens opened and down came the rain and then the hail. Couldn’t see anything, the noise was incredible and the road was completely covered. We then thought of heading home, so found a place to do a u-turn but it was still coming down so heavily that we then turned off the road completely and sat behind a building until it finally stopped. It looked like the whole countryside was under ice, the roads were starting to run with melt and enormous puddles! We figured we may as well head back to Denton as the storm was going the other way now, but there was miles of road with hail sitting on the sides. An accident slowed the traffic down for a while, but even though the sky was still completely clouded over it had stopped raining, but it was still very cold.
Found the University of North Texas and as it was spring break it was quiet so we drove around, doing lots of stopping and capping. We did have a walk through the grounds even though it was still cold. We saw lots and lots of squirrels, fascinating to watch. Wonder what all the householders think of them! We ended up with 1600+ green virtuals!
Back at the motel Maria had her coffee and then we walked up the road and under the highway to a shopping centre car park on the other side and did some wandering around there. Fascinating sight was the boat-tailed grackles obviously getting together for a pre-roosting chat on the power lines! Home again for another late dinner (well mine’s still in the microwave) and we will checkout tomorrow and head for Arlington lol.
