It was a great weekend - we got to see a couple of our peeps, we ate good food, we relaxed. Lately, I've been growing very weary of work. It doesn't help that I have to park so far away. And since I haven't had to whip out my ID card to get into the already full parking lot, I end up walking two blocks towards the hospital when I realize I left my ID in the car. So, I'm getting a lot of steps in, if you want to find a silver lining in THAT.
I made a bacon and mushroom quiche for Friday dinner:
Which we promptly stored in the fridge in order to feed our faces with pizza at 4th Tap.
They were releasing their House of Torment Pumpkin Ale and since I love all things pumpkin, off we went. I got zero pics of the pizza, but it was wonderful. Since the ale release was a collaboration or tribute of some sort to a haunted house thing in Austin, there were scary clowns roaming around terrorizing people. I was definitely not in the mood. And I've had teenagers, you can't scare me, so go away.
But the beer was just OK. We sat in their tank room as the tap room was FULL. And people were wearing all manner of crazy costumes, but my phone mostly stayed face down on the table. It was a week, people.
The next day we drove to Houston to visit The Girl*. As you can see, her apartment is very expansive! Lots of room for Teddy to play! I made her one of her childhood favorites: Enchiladas, (canned!) corn, black bean dip, and we had wine. We watched about 100 episodes of Queer Eye and generally just lay around until bedtime. Then the Girl cranked the A/C down to about 69, bless her, and I slept like a rock.
The next morning we took Ted to a fun outdoor place for brunch.
The sweet potato hash was the bomb! Sweet potatoes, spinach, mushrooms, gruyere, avocado, egg, housemade aioli...YUM. The Girl and Hubby ordered brisket hash which looked equally wonderful. We all had croissants and coffee and it was all so good. You would think we had never eaten.
We recovered back at her apartment, making our plans to visit a new to us winery in San Marcos, then take Bubbie to dinner.
Check out the gigantic fig tree in their parking lot!
This winery was a nice little find . I wrote up an article about it on Monday to send in for publication. They had a big deck overlooking the San Marcos river and with fans blowing, it was quite pleasant. We hung out there for a while before meeting Bubbie at his apartment and heading to get burgers for dinner. Also, these happened:
A bunch of those got taken to go...along with half of my very delicious burger.
I had forgotten how good Grin's is - their broccoli cheese soup was amazing!
We dropped Bubbie back off, then drove to the top of his parking garage to admire the view. Then we called it a weekend and headed home to put "big trash" out for the city's bulk pic-up this week. An un-glamorous end to our traveling and eating weekend!
And now, here it is Wednesday, we are halfway to another weekend...
*Happy 28th birthday to my baby girlie!
Gina
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