great weekend
What a weekend. First, it was Anna's birthday. Anna is our little six-year-old niece. We had her for the day, taking her to the Rainforest Cafe and then on some outings. On the way to the cafe, downtown, we just so happened to pass by the Houston Street Festival, a monthly street fair, where we saw some friends and had a sunny good time.
On our way home, we suggested that instead of just taking we should do some giving, in the form of picking up some trash at Trinity University. You'll never believe this, but, as Anna was picking up trash, she found a scrap of paper that looked like a treasure map! It was a treasure map, which led to various other clues around the Trinity University campus. We couldn't believe that [a] pirates had been here two hundred years ago, and [b] they had left clues that had somehow remained undiscovered. We figured that maybe the recent construction had unearthed them.
Sure enough, they led to treasure! Right by a tree there was a beautiful bag that had two ornately embroidered purses, one of which had antique coins in them, no doubt highly valuable. They looked like they might have come from Thailand. Again, we marveled at our good fortune, and the serendipitous treasure-find was a highlight of the day. After that, dinner, some official birthday presents, a movie, and a very very very late night.
Sunday after church, Catherine and I went to Austin to visit with Jeff and Marina and Annabelle, my college roommate and his wife and delectable months-old daughter. As it happens, we were privy to their discovery that a seller had taken their offer, and that they are now the owners, minus some autographing ceremonies, of a new house.
The next day, Jeff awoke early and headed off to downtown Austin to compete in his second triathlon. We awoke a bit later to go down and wish him well. Unfortunately, Catherine is in such bad shape that watching a triathlon was apparently too much for her, and we decamped to Jason and Erin's (fellow-composer and pianist, respectively) so she could lie down a bit. They invited us to stay for their Memorial Day burger-and-awesome-cookie feast, which we did before going back downtown to hook up with Marina and her freshly-showered and triumphant husband, whose time was under two hours.
Spontaneous, fun-loving family and friends: what a weekend.
On our way home, we suggested that instead of just taking we should do some giving, in the form of picking up some trash at Trinity University. You'll never believe this, but, as Anna was picking up trash, she found a scrap of paper that looked like a treasure map! It was a treasure map, which led to various other clues around the Trinity University campus. We couldn't believe that [a] pirates had been here two hundred years ago, and [b] they had left clues that had somehow remained undiscovered. We figured that maybe the recent construction had unearthed them.
Sure enough, they led to treasure! Right by a tree there was a beautiful bag that had two ornately embroidered purses, one of which had antique coins in them, no doubt highly valuable. They looked like they might have come from Thailand. Again, we marveled at our good fortune, and the serendipitous treasure-find was a highlight of the day. After that, dinner, some official birthday presents, a movie, and a very very very late night.
Sunday after church, Catherine and I went to Austin to visit with Jeff and Marina and Annabelle, my college roommate and his wife and delectable months-old daughter. As it happens, we were privy to their discovery that a seller had taken their offer, and that they are now the owners, minus some autographing ceremonies, of a new house.
The next day, Jeff awoke early and headed off to downtown Austin to compete in his second triathlon. We awoke a bit later to go down and wish him well. Unfortunately, Catherine is in such bad shape that watching a triathlon was apparently too much for her, and we decamped to Jason and Erin's (fellow-composer and pianist, respectively) so she could lie down a bit. They invited us to stay for their Memorial Day burger-and-awesome-cookie feast, which we did before going back downtown to hook up with Marina and her freshly-showered and triumphant husband, whose time was under two hours.
Spontaneous, fun-loving family and friends: what a weekend.
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