Saturday, December 5, 2009

Tummy full of Turkey



Hey everyone! I am here to report, that at 9:20am, it is slightly SNOWING in Austin!! Yay yay yay! I am so excited, but I'm at work and I know it won't last! I am looking forward to the freeze warning tonight at 6pm and plan on staying in and watching movies and stuff all weekend! Any snow in Houston Van?

So a recap of the past week or so...

A few days before Thanksgiving break there was a meteor shower. It was also Michael Conlon's B-day so he invited a bunch of people to go out to Pedernales Falls at night and enjoy the cold weather and watch the sky. Darian, Mike and I decided to drive out, but couldn't remember how exactly to get there (it's around 40min from the city). Luckily Mike had an Iphone so we were using the navigating system on it. It kept taking us down these pitch-black roads, and there was no moon that night. We were supposedly supposed to go down one road for like 5 miles then turn right, but after 4 miles it was a deadend (??), so we decided to turn down a road a little ways back. As we were driving down that, Mike said "I don't know how to tell you this, but my Iphone died." Yikes! We were in nowhere's ville! Luckily we just kept going on that road and it led us right to the park! We found MCo's campsite and we popped popcorn over a fire, had marshmallows and birthday cake and looked at the stars (we didn't see any meteors though). It was a fun time, and we had better luck with getting home, luckily.

Wednesday before Thanksgiving I headed to Sugar Land. I was so excited because at night I got to hang out with some old buddies! Sara, Nicole, Jessie and I went to Escalantes for dinner in Town Center, margaritas! After dinner, we went to meet Darian and some of his friends at Olives, where we also ran into Vanessa and Kip! We knew we were going to run into highschool people at Town Center, and we were right! Luckily we ran into people we know and like instead of awkward people. We all had a martini and then headed over to Baker Street where we ran into Kyle and some of his guys! (We missed you Stephanie!) We chatted with them for a while, and then some weird guy bought us all jello shots, which no one wanted (so I took many of them). It was a fun night overall! I've missed my buddies!

Thanksgiving was a great day, as usual. In the morning I made some pumpkin pies and a pistachio salad. At 2pm I went to Darian's for feast #1. It was delicious. I could have kept eating and eating but I knew I had my own dinner to go to later. After eating, we sat on the couch and I almost went into a turkey coma! I had to leave right away so I could get home and take a nap. I've never experience such an intense reaction to turkey, it was funny. At around 6pm I ate dinner with my family and Scott's girlfriend, Natalie. Couldn't quite eat that much the 2nd time. Then I hung out with my mom while everyone else watched the football game (grr why can't they have the football game the day before or the day after thanksgiving?)

Friday early morning I drove with my family up to the cabin, which is about 4 hours when you figure in the stopping for lunch. We just hung out and relaxed on Friday because we were having another feast on Saturday. The next day we got to work preparing for an Italian dinner that Darian's mom and aunt were coming for. My mom made a delicious pumpkin, gingersnap, caramel, pecan cheesecake!! She also made chicken scaloppine with pasta and a lasagna. Darian came up in the early afternoon and his mom and aunt came soon after. While we were hanging out, I was outside, Josie was inside, fighting a wasp. Scott said he saw her holding the wasp in her mouth. Then she jumped back and the wasp flew out, and Scott stepped on it. He told me she might have gotten stung. She didn't seem to be hurting or bothered, but sure enough, 10 minutes later, the right side of her bottom lip was swollen and sagging!! I think the wasp stung her in the mouth! She still didn't seem upset or anything. I wish I had gotten a picture! Luckily the swelling went down after too long.

We went on a little hike up the hill behind our house and then had a very yummy dinner. Then we played Apples to Apples before Darian's ladies left to drive the 4 hours back to Sugar Land. It was a rather cozy weekend I must say.

This week has simply been shopping, trying to get free stuff, at Victoria's Secret with Melanie, watching movies at the Alamo, trying to eat lots of free food, and baking cookies. Now to enjoy a weekend of similar activities!