Ringing in the New Year

The rest of our visit was pretty low key.  I cooked a traditional NY Day lunch and the girls played a lot.  We all spent a little time on KK's Christmas Gift.  The girls baked and decorated cookies.

Can't believe it's back to school again.  The Holiday Break went by so fast!  Mardi Gras is pretty early this year, so we are now counting down to that break. 

Houston Zoo

Before we were to meet The Speyerer's at the zoo, we stopped at a restaurant for breakfast. We for some wrong information and the restaurant was not open this morning, as it was NYE.  The Café and Bakery was, so we got some coffee and pastries.  As we were waiting on our coffee, Em was watching the pastries being made.  Later a man approached us and said he was photographer and wanted to share a photo he took of Em. Pretty cook I think.

The Houston Zoo.  Pretty awesome.  And considering we have The Audubon Zoo to compare it to.

 We thought this was pretty cool.  We saw this dog in the enclosed part of the Elephant Domain.  They were getting baths and this dog was in there with the handlers.  We saw this sign...

 These cats were unreal. So beautiful.

 This baby Giraffe was so darn cute. 

 Lee took the girls to feed the Giraffe's, but you can't see them from this angle.

The girls had a great time running almost the entire zoo. They are looking forward to spending the next few days together hanging out and playing.

Our time in Houston

It's been way to long since we have made a trip to Houston.  We decided New Year's was a prefect time to hang out with The Speyerer's.  We drove in the Wednesday before New Year's and got a very early start.  We were in Texas for noon.  We planned a night just the three of us and were meeting up with Rachel on Thursday and staying thru Sunday.

 Our first stop into town was The Houston Center Green Gardens.  These greens are right by Minute Maid Stadium and the Art Installations change a few times a year.  You know us... suckers for Art.

 This exhibit was pretty cool.  The round things are concave pieces of stone and there is one at the other end about 40 yards apart.  If you sit in one and another person sits in the other, you can whisper and the other person can hear what you are saying perfectly.  It's amazing and was developed and built by a sound engineer.  Fun stuff.

 We left Discovery Green Park and went to Highland Village to do some shopping.  Of course there was a visit to the Sprinkles ATM, as the line to get in was 20 people deep.

 And then we went to The Galleria.  Spent most of our time standing in lines, as it was extremely crowded.  Emerson and Denny had a great time ice skating.

 Almost busted it...

After a good night sleep, we met The Speyerer's at The Houston Zoo.