Mum and Dad's Visit

I was fortunate enough to have my parents visit me last week. It was lots of fun and it was great to see them again. My parents drove the 30 hrs to Texas in their new Subaru. They stopped to see Kirtland and Grace Land on the way. Mum and Dad arrived in Lake Jackson right when I finished work on Tuesday, perfect timing. We sat and talked for ever until we realized it was getting late and we should have dinner. We'll I wanted to take them to the famous BBQ place in town but is was closed and we barely made it to a Mexican restaurant it was so late. We went to El TORO which is one of my favourite Tex-Mex places. It has really good food.
Wednesday, I had to work so Mum and Dad rode around town and went to Wal-Mart! They tried to find the beach but got lost and ended up swimming in my pool. I had to teach piano lessons and Dan went and played tennis while they kept swimming. So then wanted to try BBQ again and it turned out the restaurant was on holiday until my parents were leaving. To bad. So we tried seafood. The golf coast has good seafood. We went to a Greek Cajun Seafood restaurant and everyone ordered catfish. If was good stuff.
Thursday I took the day off to spend time with my parents. We went to the local Sea Center (aquarium of the golf of Mexico). Dan was also able to get the time off. We also went to Galveston and went downtown. Saw all the cool beach houses on the way. We spent the day at the beach. The water was warm and had lots of waves.



The day did not end there, we came home and showered and they headed up to Houston and went to the Temple. It was really nice to be able to go to the temple again with my parents. After the temple we went to see the Danner family. We hung out with Heather and Shea and their kids for a while. After a long day we didn't end up getting home until 1 in the morning!

So our adventures continued on Friday, I took the day off on Friday as well. We spent the day in Clear Lake. We first went to NASA space center. My dad was way excited to see all the cool space stuff. We started off with a tour of where the astronauts train. The tour ended early because there was a thunder storm. (its funny cause Houston has been in a drought this whole summer and when my parents come they bring rain!) so we went to all the movies and saw all the space artifacts. We ended with a tour to mission control and the huge rocket Saturn V.



After NASA I took my parents to my old apartment and where I worked for Celanese last summer. We then went to Hwy 225. I wanted to show my parents the huge chemical plants and oil refineries. I think its pretty cool just because of the how many plants there are. We drove for 20 min and we still didn't reach the end. The chemical plants look really cool when they are all lite up at night. We then headed to Kemah for dinner. Dan and I treated my parents to a fancy dinner at Laundry's. We had really good sea food. We walked around Kemah which has fair rides and booths. There was a jazz band playing and a juggler in the square. It seemed like my Dad really enjoyed it because we didn't leave until midnight. So once again we didn't get home until 1am because of the drive home.

Saturday my ward had a pancake breakfast in the park. After breakfast, my parents, Dan and I headed to Houston for the day. We had bought a houston pass with when we went to NASA. The pass consisted of 3 museums, the zoo and the aquarium. It was a really good deal. We started at the Natural Science Museum. We learned a lot with the cool chemistry and oil exhibits. The museum was really fun and interactive. We then headed to the museum of Health. Dan really wanted to go to learn all about the body. (My future doctor!)

After that we strode through Hermann Park and toured the Zoo. We saw Lions, Tigers and the Bear was sleeping. Oh My! we saw elephants, giraffes and lots of monkeys.


We headed to dinner and my Dad finally got his Texan BBQ. We went to Pappa's BBQ. It was really good and lots of meat. Well, of course our day could not end yet it was still only 9pm. So we headed to the Houston Aquarium. Dan really had fun with the sting ray.


After a busy 3 days we were ready to relax. Sunday, we went to church and relaxed afterward. I made dinner and we played games. My parents left Monday morning. It was sad to see them go but we had a great time together.