Thanksgiving in Texas

Thanksgiving in Texas

We drove half way today. We stopped in Biloxi and stayed at the Palace Casino....these places have cheap really nice rooms becasue they want you to come gamble. The deal was if we ate at the buffet which was fabulous we would each get $20 each to play on the machines. Bob played his $20 and made $13. I played ,my $20 and got $9. back ....So any way we had fun. We drove 8 hours the first day and 8 hours the second day.....yup 16 hours on the road.





Isabel has grown a foot taller!! sure was good to see her,,,So the next day we got back into the car and drove to Austin, Susan's dad and his wife Robin. We spent Thanksgiving with them 3 years ago also. I really enjoy spending time with them. It was pretty chilly there 28 degrees. I got up early the next morning and walked up the street and there were so many deer just romping around(on everyone's front lawn)  that I could not even count them alll. It was almost like a petting zoo...one of them walked up to me like it wanted me to feed it....come to find out several people includimg Dennis and Robin do FEED them. There was one really big buck and there were several babies. Unbelievable!!
So the next day I get up early again and take my camera .......no even one deer!!!Change of venue without telling me....so no deer pictures. Its almost like I dreamed it.






Thanksgiving was just great. Not as many people as before ; I like it better. Both grandmothers were there and Robin's sister was there too. This year Hanukah began on Thanksgiving day so they had Isabel help light the candles on the minnora..she also got to open gifts and they said prayers.
We had a really nice visit but it was good to get back to Houston so we could visit with Rob and Susan and Isabel. Saturday the guys went gun shopping and the girls went to see "Frozen" which I totally enjoyed even if it was an animated story for kids!! The theatre there was gigantic...I think it had like 25 movie rooms..it had about ten restaurants ....it was craxzy.
We even had time to go to the park and fly a kite.




We left on Sunday because Jan had plans to leave on Tuesday and it was suppose to storm badly too.
Somehow Rob managed to find time to build me a new computer!! Thanks Rob. We drove 10 hours and stayed just over the Florida line so we got home about four o clock Monday.  It was good to get home.