The guests who had landed in San Antonio on the airplane was safe and sound now, and yesterday we took them to Galveston, Texas to live in a large hotel called the Flagship Hotel.

This hotel is special in many ways mostly because it is actually on the water. It is built on a large pier, and looking outside of the window will give you an effect like you are in midair above the ocean.

Before we could check in, however, we had to eat dinner, and my mom chose a Chinese cuisine. When we were finished with the meal, they gave us fortune cookies.

One of the ladies who had come with us received: You will travel to many places.

I received one saying I would get a lot of money, and my mother a note that she could do anything. Wow.

What was most interesting was one that the other lady who had come with us received: Two small jumps are sometimes better than one large jump.

When the ladies asked for a translation (because they did not know English), I therefore translated it as such.

When we returned to the hotel, my mom joked that it would be fun to just jump from the balcony, straight out and into the water.

At this point, one of the ladies cannily responded, “You’re not supposed to do that. Remember the fortune cookie? That large jump will get you into the water, but if you go down to the beach and carefully take little jumps, you’ll survive.”