Houston Wedding

This weekend we headed back to Houston for the wedding of two friends
of ours. The bride introduced Mr. D and me five years ago. I've
known the bride for almost 10 years now (how old that sounds!!), and
Mr. D was in her section their first year of law school. Mr. D also
knew the groom in law school, and played poker with him on Friday
nights, until that became the night when I would get to Austin to
visit, or he would be driving to Houston.

The wedding was beautiful - the bride wore a gorgeous lace gown, along
with her signature pearls - the bridesmaids wore green (great minds
think alike) and carried cream-colored hydrangeas and roses. The
ceremony was a traditional Greek Orthodox ceremony, and it was fun to
see the real thing and how similar, but different it was from our
Catholic wedding.

The wedding was especially beautiful because this couple had been
through some particularly tough times, but with flying colors.
Everyone there had been waiting for this night, because they deserve
all the happiness in the world.

I hope you two are having a great time in Hawaii!!

Fourth of July

We had a great time back in H-town over the Fourth weekend, once the weekend got started. I can’t imagine what the weather in New York is doing to the “on-time” status for the airlines – our flight got pushed back two hours, so we would up getting in around 12:30 am instead of 11:30 pm. Our plane’s tardiness wasn’t that big of a deal as “night-owl” Dad came and picked us up, or let me say the man who thinks he is a night owl because he wakes up at 2 am and finds himself in the living room. Same man is barely coherent and near-sleep the entire ride home - why did my parents not get my younger sister to pick us up?

The next morning, we played golf, and the next and the next (OK - so I begged out on Saturday, but I did play two of the three). The hubs managed to play all three days, even though the heat index was around 105 each day. Spending four hours in the sun is not so bad, as long as you wear sunscreen and don't mind the enormous headache you have for the rest of the day. :)

We did manage to get our tex-mex in, though we had to do a bit of finagling to convince my mom to change the meal plan (read as my sister, ReeRee, calling and telling her that M and I really wanted tex-mex, so why didn't she save the steaks until after we left). Yumm - and we managed to have crawfish too, because D and ReeRee threw a Fourth of July bbq/crawfish boil. The party was great, all the family that was in town came over to ReeRee's house, so we even got to see my cousin's new baby.