The weekend before Thanksgiving was filled with Meier’s. Randy & Christine (“R&C”) (Rob’s parents) drove down and Ryan & Stacy (“R&S”) flew down from Colorado Springs. We hadn’t all been together since last Christmas… so it was quite the reunion.
On Friday night we met up with R&C at Houston’s for some fabulous burgers and catch up chats. Later that night we ventured out to George Bush airport to pick up R&S. Smooth sailing at the airport really… no delayed flights or lost luggage.
In the car, Ryan even asked me to talk about Dave Ramsey and I got to give my Dave Ramsey spiel. I love giving the “debt free” speech and have perfected it to under 5 minutes. Just ask R&S, I was quick. The church they go to endorses Dave Ramsey so they’ve heard of him, too. Why does it seem that every blog I right talks about Dave Ramsey??? Most of my friends seem to be talking about getting, being, or just having been pregnant. I prefer to talk about Dave Ramsey myself. J
We headed to Pappa’s Burgers with R&S to meet up with their friend Travis on our way back from the airport. Since Rob & I and already eaten, we just ordered a milkshake. Not gonna lie tho… that milkshake might have been one of the best ever. During this time, we also watched an intense Iowa State, OSU game. Crazy weird.
We called it quits around 11 or so and headed in for the night.
Saturday, I made R&S cinnamon rolls and Ryan had a bloody nose due to the extreme change to humidity from dryness. Whoops! J It was really, really humid while they were here. At least 90% on Saturday. On the bright side, Stace said that she hadn’t had to use lotion as much!! J
We caught the Port of Houston tour of the Ship Channel via boat and got to see some gigantic ships and things on the Houston ship channel. The tour was free, which made it kind of amazing. I was kind of hoping to maybe see some historic things, but we didn’t really. Just really big ships.
For lunch Christine found this place called Azteca’s where we ate Mexican food and then R&C went and did some errands at The Container Store while we took R&S through the classy neighborhoods of River Oaks and Tanglewood. We reminded them, that no… we would not be living here… but it’s always fun to come and look!! We came back to the apartment to rest up and watch the first half of the Arkansas game.
That evening, we headed to City Center to walk around, eat dinner and see a comedy show. We ate at a place called Tuscan Brio Grille which was fabulous. It was a nice evening so we could sit outside. The waiter new there were twins at our table, but at the time he came over Ryan was gone to the bathroom so the waiter was trying to figure out who were the twins between me, Robert, and Stacy. We told him that he would know who the twins were when everyone was at the table. J
We headed to the comedy club which was very funny. It was very clean humor, but there were a few too many teenagers in the crowd. But, it was still really funny. When asked to describe a Canadian… Ryan volunteered the word ‘Heterogeneous”. Don’t ask how he came up with that word or even why he came up with that word… but he was awarded the “best suggestion” at the end of the night and the comedy person acting out the word heterogeneous even got his team to guess the right word. It was very impressive. All in all, a very hilarious night.
On Sunday we slept in a little and had brunch at this place Chris found in the Height’s called Dharma’s Café. It was very good food and probably a place that we would go back to. We then headed out to Houston Zoo, which was very spectacular. Did you know that you can feed giraffes there?? For $5 you can feed them 3 pieces of lettuce. Note to self: bring your own lettuce. It was a very nice zoo and a lot of it seemed pretty new. I’m told the African Forest section is about a year old.
We also went up to the Cheesecake Factory at the Woodlands Mall where we were able to meet up with Robert’s sister Jordan who rode down with a friend. Later, we drove R&S back to the airport for them to catch their flight back home.
It was very nice catching up with everyone and hearing about everyone’s lives. As you can see, we packed a lot in to a short weekend. On Monday, I spent the day with Jordan & Christine and their friends at the outlet mall in Cypress and met up with Robert and his dad at the Hard Rock Café.
Phew! Lots of things to be thankful for this season. Today, we’re off for one last meal with the Meier’s and then to Canyon Lake to spend the rest of the week with the Hesseltine/Atzenhoffer family.
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