We had a busy Christmas in Houston. Sunday morning we joined Cynthia, Felix and Ava (Felix’s daughter) to go to church. They attend the Methodist Church in the Woodlands for the last day of Advent service. The church is huge with over 12,000 members. They have three church venues going at the same time, one being a more traditional service (which we attended), another for younger members and another for millennia’s. The service was very good. We then all went to lunch in the Market street mall. The place was swamped and finding a place to park the big truck was tough but we persevered. Following lunch we went our separate ways to finish up Christmas Shopping.
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| Christmas tree at the Woodlands Market Place |
Later that day Cynthia and Felix joined us to go to The Heights theater to see Bruce Robinson and Kelly Willis in concert. It was the final show in their Christmas tour. It was an excellent concert and we all had a great time.
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| Leslie with Bruce Robinson and Kelly Willis |
Monday morning David made some of Aunt Marjory’s date nut cookies to take over Christmas Day. We went through the few cook books and recipes we had brought with us in the RV and realized the cookie recipe was 300 miles away lost somewhere in a large storage unit. So David texted his cousins to see if they had it. His cousin Beth went through her Mom’s recipe box and found the recipe. But what was funny was the recipe was an email from David’s Dad to Aunt Marjory and listed it as David’s recipe! David had gotten the recipe from his Aunt Marjory in a hand written note. He later sent it to his Dad, who then copied it into his on line recipe book, which at some point he had emailed it back to Aunt Marjory! Funny how these things work!
David also took advantage of the beautiful weather to climb up on the roof of the Wanderer to wax some areas that are easiest to reach from the top verses trying to stand on the ladder to reach. This finished off the front of the fiver and started the waxing down the sides.
Later on Monday, we went to Lauren and Brian’s (and Olivia’s) for a Christmas eve dinner. Brian’s parents (Edward and Mary) and brothers (Adam and Kyle) made the traditional Troianello Christmas Dinner of Prime Rib steaks with mushroom cream gravy. It was a fantastic meal. That was followed up with the opening of family gifts. Little Olivia received a mound of Christmas gifts for her first Christmas. We think she had more fun with the paper than most of the gifts. But she did take a liking to the talking Christmas Bear (it recites the Christmas Story) we gave her. It was a happy and fun evening. We really enjoyed getting to know Brian’s family better. Edward and Mary are thinking about buying a RV, so we had plenty to talk about! ;-)
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| Brian and Kyle cooking dinner with Lauren and Mary looking on. |
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| Mound of gifts for Olivia (Brian, Olivia and Lauren in front, Cynthia, Edward, Adam in the back and Felix's son Andrew to right side) |
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| Lauren and Olivia with her Elvis Onesie |
Christmas Day we were up early to make the dishes we were bringing over to Cynthia and Felix’s house for yet another magnificent meal. Afterward we all sat around and caught up on the topics of the day. It was another fun and relaxing day. We left Etta behind at Cynthia’s and drove back to the Wanderer early since we needed to pack for our trip to Ohio to visit David’s family.
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| Christmas Day feast (Left to right: Cynthia, Leslie, Adam, Kyle and Lauren) |
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| Olivia in fur! |
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