Mema's Memoirs: Houston once, Houston twice

I don't think I've ever gone to Houston twice in one month, but this was an absolutely necessary change of plans.

For one thing, Bailey had her last two volleyball games Thursday night, November 7th and Monday, November 11th. Ruth Ann ran a 5K on Saturday morning, November 9th and Micah played a flag football game Saturday afternoon.

So, you see, there was no way I could not go for this weekend. But then Bailey's birthday was the day after Thanksgiving and Karla and I usually drive down to celebrate with her.

Well, Southwest had a web special going and I could fly down Thursday and fly back the following Tuesday for $149 round trip. Yes, really!! So, Gary took me to Branson Thursday to fly out at noon and Wendy picked me up at Hobby in Houston at 2 pm. Perfect!

I just loved watching Bailey play. She did great!! She has never played on a team before and made the Junior High A team. Way to go Bailey!

Here's Ruthie, with her Girls on the Run team. This morning's run was a practice for the meet on December 7th against other teams. Ruthie came in third behind a 5th grader and another 4th grader. She's an awesome runner!!

The national director of Girls on the Run surprised them and showed up for the run. They got to meet her and hear her speak.

Here's the girls!

And here's Micah getting ready to play his Flag Football game!

Hike!!

So fun to watch Micah...in the middle of the all the action doing a great job!!

Then, of course, we did some shopping and we girls went for pedicures.

Tuesday, I said good-bye....but just for a couple of weeks because on Thanksgiving day, Karla and I took out about 4:30 driving to Durant, Oklahoma, where we spent the night. We have stayed at this Best Western a couple of other times, but when we drove in this time, there were no lights....the lobby was black. A guy opened the door for us and told us a transformer had blown and someone was coming to fix it, but it could be a couple of hours, so if we wanted to go somewhere else, it was okay. The clerk already had our keys fixed, so we went ahead and got our room. We unloaded our luggage, then went to Wal-Mart for flashlights and lanterns. Lights came back on around 11 but went back off for a while when we were sleeping.

Left around 8 the next morning and drove the rest of the way. Arrived in Houston around 2 pm. This is what welcomed us in their living room! Beautiful new tree!

Bailey's birthday supper happened to be their Thanksgiving meal with turkey and all the trimmings. She opened her cards that evening so that she could do some birthday shopping Saturday.