We have enjoyed our family so much during this leg of our journey.
We have played games with my parents and enjoyed eating out with them.
We went to a brewery with my son, Joe, in Magnolia, The Lone Pint.
Spent time playing games at his house on another day. with my daughter and her kids too. (Poor thing is always working)
Helped my daughter, Jenna, with her 1000 piece puzzle that was so darned hard.
Got to visit with four separate nephews, Jonathan, Austin, Dallas (and his step daughter, Ariana) and Mitchell. It was fun just getting to go over and drop in on my family. It has been a very long time since that was possible.
My nephew, Mitchell Morris, moved back to Texas from New York City. He is an instructor at the Aveda Institute (that means he is a hairstylist) so I scored a new short cut from him and had a great visit. So glad he is back in Texas.
Of course we kayaked on Lake Conroe, but we didn't bring our phones. Conroe can be a very rough lake, so you never know - I coulda lost my new phone!
We biked around a few times, but the roads here are simply awful. My wine would just spill out of my cup holder the whole time!
Wednesday, May 20, was Dennis’ birthday. We had to be in Beaumont, so we met up with my friend, Donna Hevia, for lunch at Jason's Deli. I am sure Dennis had a great birthday lunch with us. He even bought me a new phone for his birthday, a Samsung S20. The camera is 108 megapixels. Hopefully my pictures will start to reflect this great camera. It has taken some getting used to, but I am sure I will figure it out. Now I just need to find a smart watch to go with it.
We got back to the Houston area and Jenna had made her daddy a birthday cake! So we stopped and visited with them for a while. So glad someone did something for him on his birthday - he is so mistreated. LOL.
This was before Mitchell cut Hunter's hair. I think he needed one! Whatcha think?
We found a farmers market in Huntsville and scored some green tomatoes, They were amazing.
We had new shocks put on the truck and they had this beauty on display.
I FINALLY got my much needed pedicure. She did a great job!
We finally got to go see my little brother, Rex. He is a paramedic and works quite a bit. He has a beautiful home in a new neighborhood near the lake. The view when you enter his hood is remarkable. I hope this picture does it justice.
A few years ago Rex starting making wooden gun cases and some other wall hangings and things. He does a magnificent job. His garage is his workshop - NO CARS GET IN THERE. And since they bought their new home, his wife, Della, needed a bigger dining table. So he made this one!!! (That is Madison at The Table doing her homework. She is studying to be a paramedic like Rex is 😁) He said he gets ideas off Pinterest. What?
I knew he was good, but wow! He may even make chairs to go with it.
This is his wife. She is protecting me from their cat (I am allergic). Funny how all cats seem to love me. They are mean! I bet they sense that I am allergic and want to see me get all puffed up.
COVID 19
As far as the virus goes, they have opened the pool at the RV Park, but limit each two hour session to 25 people and they close for thirty minutes to sanitize and reopen for the next shift. The last shift ends at 4:30 PM. The lake, and the beach they have here on the lake, is open, so families have been taking their canopies down there and spending the day playing in the water. The playgrounds and community center are closed, but they have basketballs as well as tennis and pickle ball equipment out on the courts so you can still play those. They also have miniature golf here, I haven't seen anyone playing, so I don't know if they have they equipment out or not.
They are not letting anyone in for day use, so our family was never able to come out to visit us, like we had hoped. But our neighbor who lives here had his son into the park. I guess he probably has a pass, since he sometimes stays here too. But they cooked boiled shrimp one afternoon and brought us a huge bowl with corn, potatoes, carrots (never had that but it was really good - I may even like it better than mushrooms) and pods of garlic. Took us 3 days to finish it off! So nice of them!!!
We have had several rainy days. Grateful we only had one with bad wind. We had to get out in it to take down the lights and shades and roll up the awning. Probably funny to the other people in the park. Not so funny to us - 😕
Rainy days are the ones that the community center are usually pretty handy. People would gather and play games / cards or even just to visit. They have actually still been doing that in the outdoor area of the activity center, but don't tell anybody, okay?
We haven't had any trouble getting into the restaurants we wanted to since they have begun allowing fifty percent capacity in Texas. We really scored when we went out with Dallas and Ariana! Ariana wanted seafood, so we went to The Catch. They were serving free alcohol with your meal! They even had refills. WHAT!!!!
We will be pulling out tomorrow a little before noon and heading out to Columbus and spend time on the Colorado River. We have been there many times so we will likely not do any sightseeing there, but hope we can find a place to kayak the river. I will keep you posted.
HOPE YOU ARE ALL WELL. WE MISS OUR FRIENDS AND WILL TRY TO PLAN A GATHERING WHEN WE GET TO YOUR AREA AGAIN.
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