The overnight flight was not the best we've had, but not terrible. There was a fair amount of low-level turbulence, and the pilot kept the seat belt sign on for long stretches of time including over half of the nine-hour flight. We had an empty seat between us on the flight. A woman did sit there for a few minutes during boarding, but she saw two empty seats together against the window and moved over there. It is always nice to be able to spread out a little. Yes...

Today breakfast in the hotel was followed by very un-birthday activities. Philip worked on school stuff and had to deal with an alert from the credit card company that his account number had been compromised. He will get a new card delivered to our apartment building in Cork. In the meantime, he cannot use the card in the States, but can use it in Ireland until the new one arrives. He will need it to rent the car when we arrive since good insurance coverage is in...

After breakfast in the hotel again, we checked out and left to drive around Cleburne a bit. Philip had looked up and found the addresses of two homes where Aunt Nora and Uncle Doc lived about a hundred years ago. We also had an address for his office. The home on Willingham may have been there, but we were not sure. We found the house that should have been next door to it. Next to it was a fairly large open space that may have been enough room for a small house....