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February 18, 2005

last day... permalink

It's hard for me to believe that today is my last day in Houston, our last day on vacation. I am feeling incredibly sad. This has been such a nice break for me, and I've enjoyed hanging out with my sweetie's relations. Damn.

This morning I squeezed in a swim. Wonderful! Before we left the motel this morning, we saw part of a very campy Psycho Beach Party. Very silly.

Yesterday was a big exciting day. It started with the breakfast tacos that my beloved loves, then we went into Houston, and I got to see his high school and the townhouse he lived in with his Aunt. We drove through Memorial Park, and came into downtown. Then we went to Ninfas on Navigation.

The first time we were in Houston, we went to a N1nfas on FM1960, and while I had a great fajita plate, my sweetie was really disappointed in his mexican plate. He had eaten at N1nfas as a kid and loved it, so he was very sad.

There are a number of stories, all of them sad, but suffice to say, Ninfas on Navigation is the original, and is still owned by the family. We walked in at lunch, and the place was packed. In spite of a line, we were seated in about 5 minutes, immediately brought drinks, chips, and red and green salsas. I love the creamy green salsa—love, love, love. I ordered the traditional fajitas (beef), and my gosh, it was so very good.

We then headed down to League City to see my sweetie's brother. I had never met him, and I was a little nervous, but for no reason—they made me feel right at home. So we hung out, drank beer (Shiner, St. Arnold Amber, and Full Sail Amber), and then we had an insanely wonderful meal of seared scallops, shrimp scampi, and red snapper. Oh my gosh! Cooking yummy things seems to really run in that family. It was the funniest thing too—my sweetie and his brother argued about food, cooking, etc.—they are both so passionate about food.

Right now we're at sweetie's dad's, and I don't know what we have on for the day beyond packing and preparing to ship some stuff home.

Posted at February 18, 2005

Comments

Good food and family. Can't ask for a better send off. Have a pleasant trip home.

Posted by: Jon in Michigan at February 18, 2005 1:04 PM

I've enjoyed all your trip entries! Glad you had such a nice time!!!

Welcome home :)

Posted by: Lara at February 19, 2005 8:33 AM

Yeah, I always feel sad to end a vacation. Sounds like a great vacation!

Posted by: kirsten at February 20, 2005 9:42 PM