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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Scottish Highland Festival
We also listened to the pipe bands and some of the other bands, and then went to watch some of the gaelic game competitions. We caught the caber toss, which was interesting. We learned that they are scored on how straight the log lands, not on distance, which is what we both thought it was based on! That was our fact of the day. After grabbing a bite to eat, it started getting really gray and dark out.
At that point we headed out and back towards home, stopping at Texas Roadhouse for dinner. It was really good food, and we only got partially soaked getting to the restaurant and back home. It was a blast. It was a great way to spend the day and get out. We have really been home bodies lately because of either work or money.
San Antonio



I got off for Friday and Saturday! Yay! Jon and I decided to head to San Antonio for the night. Friday night we drive towards San Antonio. We hit an odd bit of traffic outside of Houston on the way to San Antonio, but didn't see any wrecks or anything that we could tell may have slowed traffic so much. It put us about a half an hour to an hour behind on our schedule, but we got there about 9, so it was fine.
We checked into the Hilton Garden Inn by the airport. It was a nice hotel, but we found out later that night that the bed just sucked! It was really hard, but only one side had been slept in a lot, so it was lower than the other part of the bed. But because the bed was still so hard, you couldn't be in the middle without feeling like there was a hard board sticking up or something. We didn't sleep very well.
Before we headed off to sleep though, we went out to Cowboys Dancehall, my favorite country dance hall thus far. It happened to be a night where they had professional bull riding competition, so we watched that for a bit. It was fun, except when they fell right off of the bull, and it takes a while for them to reset for the next rider. Jon enjoyed it though, so I loved it. We also did a little dancing. Not as much as I had planned, but by the time the bull riding was over, we were both pretty tired.
The next day we headed off to downtown San Antonio to see the Alamo. We walked from about Market Square over to the Alamo. Had ourselves a little Haagen Dass Ice Cream Shakes or what not to cool down, and toured the Alamo grounds. The line to get into the actual building we think of as the Alamo was really long - probably due to Memorial Day weekend.
It was starting to get grey out, so we went off to find a place to eat and shelter while it rained. However, it didn't start raining until we were half way through our meal. We probably should have just gone straight back to the car, but it was really kind of fun that we didn't. I do like the rain. We ate at one of the restaurants on the Riverwalk. It started pouring rain midway through the meal, and we were glad we were inside. When we were done though, we had to wander back out into the rain - no umbrellas or raincoats. We ran from awning to awning until we got back to the visitor's shop in front of the Alamo. I remembered seeing rain parkas there.
We got a couple, but the rain had started dying down and we noticed the Alamo was practically empty at that point. So we went inside and looked at a few of the things we missed before because of the lines. We had been planning on going to six flags, but with the storm, they would have shut the place down.
Afterwards, Jon and I headed home and spent the remaining portions of the evening with my mother, grandmother and aunt. Aunt Kelsie flew down with Mamaw to bring her here. It was a good evening, they were all glad to see us and visit.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Flooding
A little while later, when Mom had gotten up, I jumped into her car and went to check out the two exits from our part of the neighborhood and found that we were flooded in. I didn't push the car too deeply into it, but I knew my car would never make it. The news was saying that if you could stay home until the middle of the day, to do so. It would hopefully give the system time to drain properly. The bayou in our neighborhood breached the banks, which caused most of the flooding down the streets...
Jon was sent home and called me from the middle of the neighborhood. He had driven through some of the water and was afraid to go further in it. He had pulled into someone's drive way and talked to them to see if he could leave the car there. He also helped her move her cars up further in the driveway and then he walked home. I went out part way to meet him at the bayou. It had certainly been over its banks earlier and was starting to go down at that moment. By the time Jon got to me, he was soaked up to the top of his thighs.
When walked to get the car later, we realized that if you had walked in the middle of some of the streets that the water would have been up to your waist easily. We just skirted through peoples yards where we had to walk to get in less water. Jon and I rested in the middle of the day and by 9 or 10 apparently the water had gone down enough that Senate and Lakeview/Philippine were no longer flooded. At about 3 pm, Jon and I decided that since the water had receded and neither of us were at work, that we would take a ride to the Woodlands to Fat Ogre Comics and maybe get the next two booster decks for Killer Bunnies.
Well... That was not so hot of an idea we found out. The ride was simple enough until we hit 45 north just before the Woodlands. I-45 had flooded over and was not draining. There was only one lane open to go through the flooded section. It wound up taking us a lot longer to get through to the games store and then to get home. We actually went a back way home to avoid the water on 45 south. We were glad that the store was open after all of that though, and wound up buying 5 of the booster packs and two sets of the blank cards so we could make our own. We now only need two more decks to complete the game. We may also get the Kinder Bunnies to add to it as well.
Killer Bunnies
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Pancake Eating Contest Anyone?
Once the pancakes were all made, we started by 'sampling' the smaller sampler pancakes. These included breakfast pancakes (with egg and bacon in them), pina colada pancakes (with pineapple and coconut), pineapple pancakes, peach pancakes, apple strudel pancakes, banana pancakes, chocolate chip banana pancakes, chocolate chip pancakes, and Reece's pancakes (consisting of peanut butter and chocolate).
I have to say that I think my favourite was the Reece's pancakes with ice cream and caramel syrup on them. Oh yes, that was good. Who would think to put ice cream on pancakes? Certainly not me until that day, but apparently in Australia, that is a common dessert, so our hostess informed us.
Sadly, mostly of us filled up on the fun sampler pancakes, and only a few officially competed in the competition. First prize was 12 pancakes by Greg, 2nd was 5 pancakes by someone I didn't know, and third prize was shared between Sonja and Steven for 4 pancakes.
It was good fun, and I really enjoyed the idea. It certainly made me think outside the box on making pancakes! I look forward to more pancake fun.
Sorry no pictures, unless I can get some off Sonja... forgot my camera. Doh!









