Wonderful Winter Week in The Woodlands

We had a ticket for a trip we canceled last April that needed to be used by the end of January, so we rebooked a flight to Houston to spend a week with Debby. It was nice to get out of the snow, even if they were having national-news-making rain and flooding in Houston. The rain didn't interfere with our fun. We saw lots of good movies and TV series, and ate lots of good food, and shopped remarkably little. It's always fun to be with Debby.

 We love a visit from Evelyn Alta

 Out for a walk with Katy and Evy

 Descending into Houston between the two layers of clouds

 Yeehaw!

 Supper at Houston's on Kirby Drive near Rice Village

Matinee in the Woodlands

 Early dinner

 South-American fusion

 The girlies

 Really nice feijoada

Another excellent movie

The ladies shopped while I got my 10,000 steps

 Mall walking in the Woodlands

 Morning walk to Hughes Landing

 Howard Hughes would be proud

 Encore de Hughes Landing

 Woodlands walking path back to Debby's

 Winter berries

This was also good but makes me sad for the McDonald

 brothers who never got their 1%

 Movies at Market Street

 Tommy Bahama's for an early supper

 Sunday Dinner in Shenandoah 

 Thinking of Debby at Hobby Airport on our way home

 We flew right past the Woodlands and Debby's house

 Hello Dallas

Trax and Frontrunner back to Provo

Back to reality

Thanks to Debra Sue Darling Gibbs for being such an incredible hostess. This was a stellar mid-winter break from the mountains of snow we have to shovel here. That's all for now.

OXO

D.

New Year 2017

New Years Eve was quiet with an early NYC bedtime. New Years day the family gathered for Sunday dinner with Matt and Kim's family. On 2 January, we held our traditional Greek dinner at the church. Later on in the week we celebrated Harry's 10th birthday with a soccer-themed party, again, at the church. On Sunday, 8 January, the Youngs headed back to Arizona and the house was quiet and lonely: that nasty empty house syndrome.

 A game of Apples to Apples

 A beauty treatment -- actually popping zits

 Soelbergs had New Year's fireworks

 Frosty New Year's morning walk

 Connor and the girlies

 The Marlpit Hill Boyntons

 Kyle and Daniel with sticky toffee pudding

 OPA!

 Meags tickled Annie's fancy

 Delicious!

 Tweeners

 Adultos

 Opa and the binkers

 More adultos with young Evy

 The snow just kept coming

 Maren's photo of me out pounding the snowy roads

 Gavin's mad decorating skills

 Evelyn is intrigued by the soccer players

 Maren had something to say

 Evy kind of playing

 Really playing but not understanding the rules

 Yummy Hawaiian haystacks

 Meg regaled us with all kinds of opinions on movies

 Harry opening gifts

 Max's laser kept Evy entertained

 Listening to Happy Birthday to You before killing the flames

 Those piles make dandy snow forts

 Beckham exulting after the big war

 Farewell sushi dinner at Asahi

 A rainy Sunday departure as the "Pineapple Express" arrived

The house is empty: the shoes are gone -- sigh

It is always wonderful to have the house full of family, but now life will be quite dull until next week when we fly off to visit Debby in Texas. So there will be more, but this is all for now.

OXO

D.