Wow, I am ridiculously behind on blogging.  I’ve been quite busy, with the visit of my family, then with getting sick, then with traveling for a wedding. And now that it’s November, it’s going to be non-stop through the end of the year.

My parents and grandma visited the week of October 19. They actually arrived on the 20th in the afternoon so I left work early to pick them up, and then took the rest of the week off. They left on Saturday. On Tuesday hubby decided to skip his evening classes and meet me at the airport to pick up my parents and grandma. So when we got them we just went home for dinner. We had put some beef stew in the slow cooker so it would be ready when they got home, and they were quite happy with that. I also prepared some cheese and salmon appetizers on a platter and they liked that too. I like being able to impress them. Much better than them criticizing me heh.

Wednesday was Daddy’s birthday. We spent the day hanging out downtown while hubby was in class. We hung out in the tunnels and ended up in Macy’s. And spent way too much money. But a really nice lady in the shoes department told us if you’re from out of town, you can go to the customer service department and get a “welcome visitor” coupon for an extra 10% off, so Daddy got one hehe.  Dad paid for all the stuff I got so that was cool. It was kinda odd he was buying me stuff on his birthday, but whatever. No complaints out of me. That evening we went to McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant in downtown and it was really good. I didn’t realize it looked so formal inside. Great food.

Thursday hubby had class all day so my parents and I drove to Kemah. Turns out most of their stuff doesn’t get started until 6pm so we just wandered around cause it was pretty and then went to the Aquarium restaurant for lunch. They had an exhibit where you could feed and pet the stingray so that was fun. When we got done there the stuff was opening up and we rode some of the rides, like the train around the place and the Ferris wheel.  Then we went through the haunted house which was more funny than scary cause Dad and I would go through and point out the people who were pretending to be fake and then would jump out at us. Then for dinner we went to Babin’s seafood restaurant. I know, eating nothing but fish all week. Seriously.

Friday hubby’s class got canceled so we hung out in the new outlet malls in Cypress. Bought too much stuff again, but hey, clothes are good stuff. Then we went for lunch at our favorite BBQ place, Carl’s BBQ in Cypress. YUM!

On Saturday we went to Forbidden Gardens, the miniature museum based on the Forbidden City in China. Then we went to eat at the Orleans seafood place (Daddy was on a seafood kick and wanted Cajun style food). After that we took my parents and grandma to the airport for their return flight.

It was a good visit and I enjoyed seeing my family. My parents and I got along great this time, mainly I think because we had a common enemy: my grandma. She’s so much trouble that we kept fighting with her, but didn’t fight with each other.

Saturday evening hubby and I went to a Halloween party. I was a pirate and he was a cowboy. I posted photos on facebook. Sunday I had two shows to attend with my other friend with the same name. First, it was our theater season pass tickets to Mary Poppins.  Then, Julie and I went to see the Star Wars in concert - the symphony where they played each score while the man who was C-3P0 narrated the movies. It was quite awesome.

All that excitement wore me out, and I caught a cold, so I spent the rest of the week trying to relax and get better. That weekend hubby and I flew to Jacksonville and drove up to GA for his sister’s wedding. She got married on Nov 1, but we flew up the day before so we missed Halloween. I was happy that I got to go to the party the previous weekend so I didn’t miss out entirely. Then I realized I was sick last year on Halloween too. I guess it’s just the changing of the seasons that gets me. Stupid colds.

Well I think that catches up to now. This past week at work was quite busy. We just hired a senior air person for our New Orleans office (she’s super nice) and just this week hired a senior air person for our Houston office (he seems nice too but I’ve only known him one day) so hopefully things will start turning around at work and getting better.

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