Birthday Weekend

I couldn’t have asked for a better birthday weekend.  It got started on Thursday with dinner with my Dad and Step-mom.  Then, Friday night Bambi and I went to Hula Mama’s in Humble for a Hawaiian Luau - it was great.  A while back, I had seen Hula Mama’s pop up on Groupon and thought, why not?!  There was good food, BYOB, and great entertainment.  I would have never expected that in Humble and was pleasantly shocked.

 



Fire Show

 


Buffet

Saturday morning I met up with Kelley Simmons to do the Coldspring 46 mile road ride.  We also ran into Melissa Cox and Raymund Codina, it’s always nice to see familiar faces.  Kelley put the hurt on me and for some odd reason I had issues with my calf muscle.  Both calves cramped on me during the first 10 miles of the ride.  I ran the day before and was quite shocked that I had those issues.  Kelley had a classic quote, he said "I should give up the whole endurance thing if I’m cramping during the first 5 miles on the road.”  Thanks Kelley!  LOL.  After the ride we headed to the BBQ joint across the street from Double Lake, this was my first time to stop in and the food was good, I would go back. 



Saturday night Bambi and I made our way out to the Woodlands.  We needed to pick up our Bikeland jackets and then we were going to head to Market Street for some shopping.  The shopping really isn’t good at Market Street for our taste, but there are plenty of places to eat and grab a cocktail.  We decided on 1252 Tapas Bar.  We didn’t know what a Tapas Bar was, but we thought what the heck.....as we always like to try new things.  A Tapas Bar ends up being food orders of small portion sizes that act as samples.  We ended up getting 5 different tapas and we both liked all of them, ranging from cheese, meats, potatoes, olives, mushrooms, and scallops with bacon.  

 

We topped off the birthday weekend with Bambi and I meeting my mom for lunch at Texas Roadhouse, today Jan. 30^th is her birthday.  I was her birthday present 29 years ago -- how time flies.  My brother joined us along with my Step-dad, Gary.  We had a good lunch and then headed back to our place to open gifts.  The 1st gift she wanted me to open was a baby starter kit consisting of a pacifiers, diapers & wipies, baby shoes, baby toys, brush, etc.  The surprise gift was a mannequin with a Superman outfit.  <Inside story here>...  When we bought our new house, the old couple we bought the house from collected antiques.  One of the antiques that they had was a huge old style telephone booth sitting in the back yard along the fence.  They had no interest in moving it so we decided to keep it and make it a talking piece.  The older couple had a running joke that they'd leave it, only if I got a Superman outfit to play the part.  It looks really good with Superman in there now and I’m sure our neighbors think we are crazy.      

     

Superman