I am a massage therapist, and I needed to get my CEU's done and I thought to myself, why not do them somewhere that I can do some fun things when I am not in class, and I thought to myself wouldn't it be fun to meet someone who participated in the BLMPM at the same time. So I asked Carla if there were places down there in Houston that had classes to recieve my CEU's, she checked into it and told me yes, to google Houston area and I would find some. Well, I did that and sure enough I found several, but what I really wanted to learn was Hot Stone therapy so I centralized my search for that. Well low and behold there was a school in Kingwood that has just that class, and it was about 10 minutes from Carla's home. How perfect is that right? Now there were only a few times that would allow my schedule to get away from work and life here to go, and ironically the class was offered during one of those times! So I signed up and planned my trip.

I flew into Houston on Wednesday, July 9th and Carla picked me up. Let me say this ...I felt the connection between us when she walked into the baggage area where I was waiting. I knew that I was going to have an exciting time while I was there, I could feel it. I won't go into detail about every little thing we did, because I need to get into my suit and go hit the pool, but I do want to say to everyone reading this what a WONDERFUL person Carla Morton is!

She is kind,generous,family oriented,lovable,genuine,caring,thoughtful,spunky,intelligent,and I could go on and on with this list, but ultimately she is my friend for LIFE! I stayed at Carla's home, I went to her mother and sisters home, so I seen her interact with her family in day to day activities. I didn't just see her a few minutes here and a few minutes there, no we were together the entire time, until I flew home yesterday. And I got to say I wouldn't of changed one single minute of my trip if I could do it all over again. I feel I got to see the real Carla, and I will always look back and remember how she along with her family made me feel so at home with them. They took me around to so many places I have never seen before, it was incredible. This was my first trip ever to Texas and they gave me a big Texas welcome. That I will always always remember as a great experience! I will be going back there someday!! I will get some pictures on here soon, I have to go develop them today, after seeing what Carla can do with her camera, I will be getting a digital someday too. I do have some pictures on my myspace page    myspace.com/purplerose3

I do have to get more on there and update the look of my page.But there are a few on there now.

I just wanted to say Thank you to Carla and her family for showing me such a wonderful time! And if there are any of you that are reading this blog that haven't signed up for the cruise we are going on in April and that we have advertised on our site, I would say to you, you really should sign up. It is going to be such a wonderful time, meeting everyone! And Carla and CIndy are on the ones that first thought of doing this reunion, and I just know after I spent time with her in Texas that this cruise is going to be fun as well. I said earlier in my blog that I wouldn't change anything about my time with Carla, I need to change that because there is one thing I would change. I met alot of Carla's friends while there, and they were all great! But one thing I didn't get to do was meet Cindy...with the short time I was there between her schedule and ours we weren't able to connect. But that wasn't anyones fault that we didn't connect in Houston, it just couldn't be helped. I do look forward to meeting her when we set sail!

Patty