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Cafecito con mi Comadre: Janelle Reyes Chase
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Join me and my neighbor Janelle Reyes Chase as we talk about how life on the Westside of San Antonio bridges our Southside and South-Central El Paso roots, the problems with youths these days, and how these stray dogs end up joining our family! Filmed at one of our neighborhood coffee and sandwich shops, Panaderia Jimenez in the heart of the Deco District, San Antonio. Come have a cafecito with us!
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Nena Contreras Barnett (00:01.477)
Hey, pasionarias. I am here having coffee right here in the neighborhood in Panaderia Jimenez, right here on Fredericksburg in the Deco District. And I am having an horchata latte. So look at how yummy this is. It's got like cinnamon and whipped cream and everything. And I have my fabulous neighbor, Janelle, here. I'm hearing tons of feedback, so I hope this is recording okay, but we are back doing Cafecito con Comadre every other week. So I am super excited. We're just here to just chat with Janelle. Let's talk about what's going on in our community and all that. So tell me what you're drinking?
Janelle Reyes Chase (00:27.854)
Sure, an Americano, just a little bit of cream. Just a espresso and water.
Nena Contreras Barnett (00:35.694)
You have so much more self-discipline than I do because they say whipped cream and I'm just like, yes, please. Whatever.
Nena Contreras Barnett (00:58.897)
self-discipline than I do because they say whipped cream and I'm just like yes please whatever. I just drink French press coffee at home so this is closest to it. Well I drink cheap coffee like my coffee is like Mr. Coffee drip. So we've known each other now for how long? Well I moved into the neighborhood or back into the neighborhood in 28.
Janelle Reyes Chase (01:05.774)
I just drink French press coffee at home so this is closest to it. Well I drink cheap coffee. My coffee is like Mr. Coffee.
Nena Contreras Barnett (01:28.433)
So we've known each other now for how long?
Janelle Reyes Chase (01:05.774)
Well I moved into the neighborhood or back into the neighborhood in 2018. and I met you pretty much right when we moved in.
Nena Contreras Barnett (01:28.433)
Yeah. So I know in our neighborhood we have this really active Facebook group. And I remember you were like all of a sudden posting on everything. I don't know what was going on. Who is this Janelle girl?
Janelle Reyes Chase (01:05.774)
Oh yeah, we were inviting people to we were hosting events in our house. And I just wanted to Yeah, and it's so cool because Janelle's house is like literally facing Woodland Lake. So all these people are like, you know, wanting to set up their picnic tables and everything for all of the events. And you're like, yeah, let me just open the door and put out some chairs. Yeah. You know, we have beers, bathrooms, whatever. So we were blessed to go to many of your events. Oh, talk about the solo stove.
Janelle Reyes Chase (01:46.31)
We were hosting events on our house and I just wanted to tell you guys about it.
It's so cool because Janelle's house is literally facing Woodlawn Lake. So all these people are wanting to set up their picnic tables and everything for all of the events. And you're like, yeah, let me just open the door and put up the chairs. We have beers, bathrooms, whatever. So we were blessed to go to many of your events. Oh, talk about the solo stove getting stolen.
Janelle Reyes Chase (02:15.984)
So, yeah, we host Day of the Dead, Fourth of July, Earth Day, Fiesta event that's held across the lake. Whenever there's something big going on at the lake, we host a party for friends and families so that they can enjoy the lake but also have access to our bathrooms, they can have a drink at our house and then cross to the lake and enjoy the fireworks, whatever's going on that the city puts on. So the last event was, I think it was Day of the Dead, and we had our solo stove out in the front yard.
Janelle Reyes Chase (02:46.104)
We put it out there, have a fire with friends, and we kind of just left it out there. We also have a lot of yard furniture we have out in the front yard. And so we just didn't think that anything would happen. We have cameras, and so we were like, you know, who's gonna mess with things? So we left it out there, and then the day that Ian came home and said, I'm going to put it back in the backyard, it was just gone. So I looked—
Nena Contreras Barnett (02:53.503)
And Ian is her husband.
Janelle Reyes Chase (03:16.164)
Yes, Ian's my husband, sorry. And so— So when we looked back on the camera footage there was a man...
Nena Contreras Barnett (03:23.363)
When we looked back on the camera footage, there was a man in a white truck who just came by, saw it, threw it in the back of his truck and took off. But he left half of the solo stove. If anybody has one, how they work is they're flameless and you need the bottom hit part of it to suck in the air to make it flameless. And he left all the good parts to the fire pit. And so we were like, hey, if you're going to steal something, you know, take the whole thing. So we taped it to the sidewalk and he never came back for it. So I don't it's basically.
Nena Contreras Barnett (03:32.497)
So you were like, thief shaming.
Janelle Reyes Chase (03:57.112)
Yeah. It was just, you know, you just took off with a cylinder, you know, pit and nothing that is beneficial to it.
Nena Contreras Barnett (04:01.677)
So that's crazy. And I mean, for the longest time, you have these big wicker sofas. But from far away, they look like they're concrete. And so I always thought that was why they never got stolen. Yeah, because they were concrete. And I had never sat down on them until one day that we were there like around the fire and I was like, oh, he's a wicker, like anybody could just pick these up. So, yeah.
Janelle Reyes Chase (04:34.546)
Yeah, we have the wicker and then we actually, well, we do have a concrete table in the front and just regular chairs, but yeah, we've kind of tightened down our security now that we've had people come onto the property and steal things. So that's tied up now and we have to, you know, untie it to, it's like having a restaurant on a main street. You have to tie everything up. But, you know, it's one of, we live on a busy street. It's, you know, the heart of the West Side area. So there's pros and cons. There's a lot of people passing through, sticky fingers.
Nena Contreras Barnett (04:34.605)
I know I it's kind of like when I explained to my Airbnb guests that they have to lock the gate every time that they go in and out and they're like you know why but our neighborhood is like right on that cusp and so you have 500 to $700,000 homes on this side. And then on this side, you have, you know, people living in, you know, broken down quad reflexes. Yeah. And government housing and such. Yeah. And I taught in the area. So I love the community so much. It was just kind of inevitable for me to come back to the West side. It just reminded me of home. Yeah, growing up on the South Side of El Paso. So yeah, so tell me about your growing up.
Janelle Reyes Chase (05:24.162)
Yeah, so, you know, now we live on the Southside, but when my... So my family comes from the South and the West Side. So my mom, you know, she went to Burbank, grew up on the South Side. My dad lived here in the West Side his entire life. He went to Jeff. But when he and my mom split up, he bought a house on Cincinnati. And so I was south of the lake. And so I grew up over there. And at that time, this was early 90s into very early 2000s. By then, he moved out to the great Northwest area. But in the early 90s, there was a big shift in the West Side. You know, for a long time it was just working class families, maybe a little bit rougher, but pretty safe. You know, like families took care of each other. But then as the gang problem increased through the 90s, so did violent crime in the area. And so we stayed for as long as my dad felt okay, but as it got worse by the early 2000s he was like, we're out. And so, you know, my grandma stayed through it. My other aunt, some of them also left to the great Northwest, but some of them also left to the great northwest. But some of them stayed here and some of them developed land off of Bandera and so when I came back to San Antonio after living in other cities and other countries, I knew that I wanted to live central. I didn't want to live in the suburbs. I wanted to be, I wanted downtown to be accessible, but I didn't really want to be in the heart of downtown. I still wanted a yard, I still wanted those things. So, moved back to San Antonio, and we originally moved back to the south side where my mom's family's from, but because they had all migrated north, I felt so removed. I feel like San Antonio's like four mini cities in one because you know even though it was only 20 to 30 minutes from the south side where I was at to where my family on the north side was, it just seemed like I wasn't seeing them enough. So when my husband and I started looking for homes together, we looked on this side because my dad's family is all in one spot and they're all here on the west side so we wanted to be here and and then it's also only, you know, five miles from where my mom and my grandma are. So it seemed like a really good spot to settle into and reconnect to family because they've been gone for 13 years. And so we found our home, like you said, right on Woodlawn and just, you know, laid down roots and we've been there since. But I really love the Westside because I feel like how you were talking about, you've got the homes that are 30, 40, 50, 60,000 on this side and then you have these 300 and up on one side. I feel like there's a lot of merging of that going on right now. A lot of people who grew up on the south end of the lake are now coming back to San Antonio or maybe they've stayed in San Antonio but economic changes for them have been, they've changed their family's economic stance. And so they've moved into what is now, what they saw as the desirable area to move in, but it's also making a change into parts south of the lake where that's changing to people are fixing up those homes and people are, I mean, breaking, I guess you could say, generational curses of poverty. Yeah. And so it's really exciting to, to see not only that, you know, but just the positive changes of businesses reinvesting in our area, because for a long time, this area was neglected. Everything was being built on the loops. And so if you wanted to do anything, you had to go out to the loops, to entertainment, dining, those kind of things. I feel now that residents are reinvesting into the core of San Antonio. Businesses are responding by also investing and opening up businesses where people want to meet people like here, where we want to meet and hang out and spend our money in our own community.
Nena Contreras Barnett (09:53.081)
Yeah So I mean you can like literally on a Friday night You know you could go have dinner at the Ford couple have a couple of glasses of wine Come play some games over here atBlack Potion, then maybe go listen to some live music across the street at Deco, and then walk home.
Janelle Reyes Chase (10:13.3)
Yeah, yeah. Everything is right here.
Nena Contreras Barnett (10:23.835)
So yeah, I love that a lot of the business owners either grew up in the community or they moved back to the community specifically because this is where they wanted to plant their business.
Janelle Reyes Chase (10:56.818)
Yeah, reinvestment into this area. Like I said, I've only been here since 2018 when I came back, but just from 2018 to now, you can see how how much the business development here has impacted the real estate and how it's attracting younger people to move in. People are wanting to see the, you know, I don't think there's a big push to see it like a St. Mary's Strip style nightlife, but something in between that and what we have now. People want to be able to walk to dinner and a bar and have more than one or two options. They want, you know, a couple of them that, you know, kind of service the community. Our neighborhood, which we have like with The Lighthouse and you know it'd be nice to see some other businesses like that where they're having, I guess you could say a respectable business, you know coming in because we don't want like the bar fights and the bar problems but we do want places where we can hang out with no drama. And I think that's one of the biggest objections is you know just
Nena Contreras Barnett (11:27.887)
And I think that's one of the biggest objections is you know just what is this gonna attract. I know there's a new bar popping up right actually right across the street. What is it called? Dar Bar? So I don't know.
Janelle Reyes Chase (10:56.818)
We haven't been in there yet so I don't know about that one. Looks like they're still under construction and from what I know from the building is right now it's only a hookah lounge. I don't think they've they think they're starting to talk about rezoning possibly for alcohol sales but that has not been brought up to zoning yet. Okay so but you know if the owner reaches out to the community it would be nice for them to introduce themselves. There's been some chatter on the Facebook pages about what kind of business is this? Is a smoke lounge going to attract underage vaping and stuff like that? And I think, you know, because I've gone to I'm not a smoker or a vaper, but I've gone to these lounges before. And especially when I was in Germany, there's a big Turkish and Middle Eastern influence there. And you know, these, how it was there was these places were, it's like a coffee shop. It's somewhere you meet somebody and some people, you know, will use hookah but some people are just there to hang out and music and socialize. And so if the owner could maybe reach out to the community and say, I'm not here to support any kind of, you know, underage vaping or I'm not here to attract teenagers. I'm here to attract, you know, adults who want to meet up and have a good time. If you don't know what hookah is, come out, try it. You may hate it, you may like it, but just be open-minded to, you know, give it a try. So I think that it's good to see other, you know, businesses investing in the area and hopefully if they are good stewards of the community they will reach out. and insure and give people some confidence that they're here to make an improvement and not bring in things that the neighborhood doesn't wanna see.
Nena Contreras Barnett (13:57.047)
So let's kind of segue into, we talked about like influencing teenagers. You have two teenagers. Tell us about that. What's the challenge? My kids are in their 30s now so I've already passed that.
Janelle Reyes Chase (14:13.294)
Yeah, I think it's kind of the challenge that it's always been. You know, when I was a teenager, it was underage drinking, drugs, you name it. Kids were doing it. And it's the same thing today. I do think, though, that this younger generation, even though there's a big concern about vaping and there's a population that is vaping. I do think that as a majority all the statistics say it's actually less. That Gen Z is doing less drugs, they're using less alcohol, and they're not having as much sex. So you know the statistics all say those things. I know when you're dealing with a teenager you might be seeing something different, but statistically millennials and older were. But with my own kids, my position has always been, I cannot be there all the time. At some point you need to make your own decisions whether they're good or they're bad, but what you need to realize is, when you make these decisions, it could impact you for a short time or a very long time. Like my kids, you know, they are...one's in college and one's on her way there and I would say financially, we could help them out a little bit when things are, if they got into trouble, but I want them to understand that it's not just, that's a big deal. Like if you lose your scholarships, if you lose your, if you have some type of actual criminal charge that we have to defend, that's a financial strain you're bringing onto the family. And so those are long term impacts that don't just impact you temporarily, but that could impact your job and your financial, you know, success. So I think those conversations are important to have with teenagers just to put that responsibility in their hands so that they're like you know I'm making these choices but I'm also responsible for what happens. And so you know my oldest in high school when she was in high school she didn't really have any troubles with like the drinking and the vaping or anything like that, but she had some senioritis. She had some senioritis where she was skipping school and she had to learn from that experience And now my youngest is kind of meeting all of these same things that all teenagers meet with. Again, she's not too much into, she's never, she tried vaping once, but it was not for her. So, she, you know, and I think it's important that kids do learn those lessons on their own and that you're there for them to say, you know, I don't approve of this, but if something happens, you can come to me. And so that's kind of how the conversation went. She was like, everybody's vaping, you know, I'm going to do it. And I was like, you know, why? You have asthma, you play sports, like how is this beneficial to your life? And so, you know, she tried it out and then she was like, Mom, you know, you were right. I was just coughing, it made basketball hard. And I was like, well, I'm glad, you know, I'm not happy you did it, but I'm glad you come to realize that it was not a good choice. And then from now on, you're making better choices. So I think, you know, sometimes they have to experience things and learn things from life. And then other times you can try to protect them as much as you can but they're ultimately going to learn from life. So that's kind of my approach to handling those difficult parenting.
Nena Contreras Barnett (18:35.075)
I think for me, my most stable child is the one that was spent her entire 20s 12 hours away from me. She's just like totally stable now.
Janelle Reyes Chase (18:06.722)
Yeah, well it's funny because my oldest as a toddler was really easy going, never really went through the terrible twos, threes. And then, so we were like, all right, this is easy.
Nena Contreras Barnett (18:35.075)
And you're like, Let's have another one.
Janelle Reyes Chase (18:36.936)
Yeah, yeah. And then that one was like the crazy baby crying to terrible twos, terrible threes, all the way into like terrible fives. But then like in high school, and they're both in high school, the oldest one starts, you know, like I said, the senior item, skipping, and I'm trying to get, you know, the little one to school too, and so it kind of just threw itself the other way. They had like cycles. The older one was rebelling, and the younger one was still, you know, she was actually like doing everything she was supposed to do. She went from not really caring about academics. You know, it was kind of like a BC student to, once she got to high school, she was like, hey, it matters now, I'm going to be an A student. And so she kind of flipped and then we were the rebelling one. And now the oldest in college is doing great. Like she's, you know, doing her grown up life thing and she's excelling at it. And so it's funny.
Nena Contreras Barnett (19:06.685)
Except she still brings her laundry home.
Janelle Reyes Chase (19:36.46)
Yes, she does bring her laundry home. So yeah, it's funny to see that what you might have thought is like the easier child or the more compliant child, there will definitely be cycles of that. Yeah, they throw things out there that you don't see coming.
Nena Contreras Barnett (19:36.699)
That's us right now with our dogs. Like, Navi is the whiny one always needing attention, but which one is the one that got us into trouble this week? That was scary. So for my viewers that don't know this story, I'll probably put it on social media somewhere, my dog bit a bat that fell out of my attic this week, and the bat tested positive for rabies.
Janelle Reyes Chase (20:18.028)
Oh my goodness.
Nena Contreras Barnett (19:49.401)
Oh, I didn't tell you.
Janelle Reyes Chase (20:18.028)
No, not that part. I knew he'd bitten a bat, but I didn't know that.
Nena Contreras Barnett (19:49.401)
Yeah, so we just got the test back yesterday. So I was like on the phone with the health department, with animal control, with the full city, everybody and her grandmother. And he has to get, well, they were supposed to get a booster, but the vet said that now the recommendation is to get them a whole full vaccination shot. And then they get a booster in three weeks and another booster three weeks after that. And then they're quarantined. Basically they cannot be in contact with anybody, human or canine for 45 days. And then we just basically watch them. And if they start doing something like really weird, like they said, banging their head against the wall or they get in like a little space and they can't figure out how to get back up,
I knew you'd been a bat, but I didn't know that. Yeah, so we just got the test back yesterday. So I was like on the phone with the health department, with animal control, with the whole city, everybody and their grandmother. And he has to get, well, they were supposed to get a booster, but the vet said that now the recommendation is to get them a whole full vaccination shot. And then they get a booster in three weeks and another booster three weeks after that. And then they're quarantined. Basically they cannot be in contact with anybody, human or canine for 45 days. And then we just basically watch them. And if they start doing something like really weird, like they said, banging their head against the wall or they get into like a little space and they can't figure out how to get back up, then we need to worry. Because it's basically like gonna attack their brain. Yeah.
Janelle Reyes Chase (21:12.188)
Wow.
Nena Contreras Barnett (20:18.095)
But I'm okay. They said that as long as they didn't bite me or lick me or anything like that, that I should be fine and the only way that I could pass it on to somebody is to bite you. It's not planning on biting you.
Janelle Reyes Chase (21:12.188)
Yeah, it's always something with these older homes.
Nena Contreras Barnett (20:18.095)
Yeah.
Janelle Reyes Chase (21:12.188)
You know, just there's holes that animals, critters get into.
Nena Contreras Barnett (21:39.495)
Yeah. So tell us about all of your porch pets that you have adopted.
Janelle Reyes Chase (22:02.796)
Yeah, sure. So, well, they're not, they started off as porch pets and now they are full-time inside. But Mr. Red is our dog. He originally came from, we were living on the south side. He was a dumped dog. And so we brought him in, and he's been with us since about 2017. And then when we moved to Woodlawn, it's a much busier area for, unfortunately, dumping people. People have kittens and they just don't know what to do with them so instead of taking them to shelters...
Nena Contreras Barnett (21:39.495)
I just don't understand that mentality. Like, oh there's a bunch of random dogs running around, go join them.
Janelle Reyes Chase (22:17.766)
Yeah.
Nena Contreras Barnett (21:39.495)
Who does that?
Janelle Reyes Chase (22:17.766)
Yeah, so Mr. Red is a single dog dog. So we are full on that end, but we are now up to four cats because of people dumping animals at the lake. So we brought two kitties with us to Woodlawn. And then a kitty during the middle of the pandemic was crying on our porch. And we brought him in, took him to the vet, became ours. That's the one we call little baby. And then just recently about, maybe four or five months ago now, we had another kitten. We were sitting in the living room, which faces the lake, and Ian said, there's a kitty out there. And Ian loves cats, so he immediately ran over there and hooked him up, and he was a sweet little kitty. And so we stayed there at the lake asking people, you know, is this your kitty? And nobody claimed him, so we also took him home, and that's how we have four cats and a dog.
Nena Contreras Barnett (23:07.961)
Hopefully you're full now.
Janelle Reyes Chase (23:37.576)
So yeah, it's the vet bills, the food, and everybody's grain free. So yeah, it's a lot.
Nena Contreras Barnett (23:07.961)
I just got my pet insurance. So I'm hoping that works well because it's a lot cheaper to insure Navi because she's only a year old. But we went through so much with Papa Smurf and just all of those expenses. So they say if you start it early, that the premiums stay low. So we'll cross our fingers.
Janelle Reyes Chase (23:37.576)
Yeah. We have just been lucky that our attitude on adopting all these animals is they came from the streets. We're giving them a good life with good food, good love and care. And as vet bills come in, we just handle it as they come in. But hopefully, I don't know if that's a good approach.
Nena Contreras Barnett (23:07.961)
Does Mr. Redd like to go out in public? Like, do you take him to beer gardens and stuff?
Janelle Reyes Chase (24:06.362)
No. Unfortunately, he cannot go out in public. The only thing he can do is he can go camping. He can camp and he likes to do that. He loves water so we can take him to the river, we can take him to the beach. He's good on leash. It's just he can't be around other dogs that are free. I have no idea what his previous life was like, but we know there was some type of violence. He's afraid of newspapers, he's afraid of other dogs, and so I don't know what was done to him, but he does not feel safe when he's around too much going on. But it's also been good because he's a good little guard dog. Him and my daughter, my youngest daughter, have just bonded that I call them litter mates because they just sleep on top of each other like puppies do. So I think sometimes when you don't get to have a puppy from when you can influence their training, you just have to accept that they come with problems. And so, you know, he has his issues, his Mr. Red issues that he can't go to the beer gardens and do those fun things. But, you know, he can live a pretty good life.
Nena Contreras Barnett (26:09.583)
You can come with me.
Janelle Reyes Chase (25:48.848)
Yeah. And we've, you know, we've fostered dogs that we have been able to do that with. And maybe in another time with another dog, but not Mr. Red.
Nena Contreras Barnett (26:09.583)
My next step is crate training. Because Jerry was already, he's been used to a crate. He can go in there for a while. He doesn't sleep in there though. But both of them have taken to waking me up in the middle of the night to get up on the bed. So I would love to get those little stairs. Oh yeah. But my bedroom is so small, I would trip over them. So every night, three o'clock, one dog, four o'clock, another dog, five o'clock, one wants to get down. So I'm not getting any sleep.
Janelle Reyes Chase (25:48.848)
yeah
Nena Contreras Barnett (27:09.023)
so now with the whole Jerry thing we ordered another crate so they're each gonna have their own separate crate and tonight will be the first night that they that we leave them in the crate. I said you know I don't care how much they cry. They're just going to have to, you know, just like with the babies, we let them cry it out when they were in the crib. And I don't know what my daughter's thinking is going to be about that, but it worked for us, so, yeah.
Janelle Reyes Chase (26:48.846)
So speaking of like the baby in the crib thing, I'm not against it but I couldn't do it because I don't know, I just couldn't, it just bothered me so much and I was just like, and I was just like, you know, their dad was like, no, they've got to adjust, they've got to cry it out. And I was like, if this is what we're doing, then I can't be here. I can't hear it because I guess it's maybe just auditory. Like, because it's, I don't know, it's just like a trigger and I just could not listen to them cry. Even though I knew like they'd get over it, it wasn't gonna, it was long term, you know? If they weren't in danger, they weren't hurting like physically, I just could not do it. So I haven't done it with dogs or cats or anything like that as far as like Mr. Red is fine with crate training, he didn't cry or anything to be alone and the cats kind of do their own thing. But I don't know, it was very hard with the babies. But yeah, if your daughter is like that where she's like, I can't listen to it, I understand that.
Nena Contreras Barnett (28:16.723)
And they're in a tiny space. You've been in my casita. They're in about that same spot. So it's going to be really hard for them to not be hearing the babies. They have two chihuahuas as well. So we need to see how the chihuahuas react to a baby actually arriving. Yeah, hopefully they become like, you know, where they're interested. We have pictures of him on her belly. Yeah. So one of them, I think
Janelle Reyes Chase (26:48.846)
With Serenity for sure. I had a boxer when I was pregnant with Serenity. She was a boxer after Sierra was born. When you bring them home, they're just like, what is that little thing? And I sent them out and they become really good buddies. Hopefully that's how things turn out.
Nena Contreras Barnett (28:57.305)
I had cats when my babies were little. And the old wives tale that the cat would lie down on the baby's neck and suffocate it. I was terrified of that, so I always had to make sure that the dogs were somewhere else so
Nena Contreras Barnett (28:57.305)
Well, we are nearing up to 30 minutes. Okay. So I think I'm going to go ahead and, oops, now I have a timer going off. Bear with me. So I think we're going to go ahead and sign off. And by the way, my concha earrings-- shout out to Dezyr Jewelry Designer. She is local. I'm gonna put her info in the notes. And I have a Concha from Panaderia Jimenez here to go along with my Concha earrings. So come on over, check it out. And Janelle is gonna be back on as an actual guest. We're gonna talk about like community involvement and the shifting neighborhoods and all that fun stuff.
Janelle Reyes Chase (30:09.926)
Yeah, so I'll see you next time.
Nena Contreras Barnett (28:57.305)
I'm so glad you came over here. It was fun.
Janelle Reyes Chase (30:09.926)
Thank you.
Nena Contreras Barnett (28:57.305)
All right. Okay, bye everybody.
Janelle Reyes Chase (30:09.926)
Bye.