Crazy-fun Weekend

Friday was my last day of class for the semester, so I got all my papers graded before we left. Then we took off for Houston around 9 PM after a grad party for one of our daughter's friends. Got to the home of our friends, Karen and Barney Giesen, after 1.

Saturday morning we headed to Surfside, a spot on the Gulf Coast about an hour south of Houston. Other members of the Giesen family as well as DTS prof Oscar Lopez and his wife, Peggy, joined us for lounging and lasagna.

We returned to Houston by mid-afternoon for a nap before slipping into Karen's sleek, black Infiniti and speeding off for a girls' night out (along with Leigh McLeroy) at the wonderful A.D. Players' production of "The Little Foxes," a three-hour play about a completely dysfunctional family by the controversial Lillian Hellman.

Sunday morning the girls sat under Leigh's fab teaching and worshiped at the multi-ethnic congregation at City of Refuge Church, while my hubby went elsewhere with Barney to teach a Korean kids' Sunday school class. They used mega water guns to play a game based on the Apostles' Creed. (Wish Barney had been my teacher. One time when we visited, he was teaching kids on the plagues of Moses, and his lesson included a pup tent full of mail-ordered crickets.)

After naps, we had a swim and barbeque with more friends. Then this morning Leigh returned, and we had a poolside breakfast with DTS Greek prof, Will Johnston, and his wife, Lisa, a children's-book author.

Good friends, rich literary conversations, salt and fresh water swims, burgers 'n blackberries, with no homework or grading. Is it any wonder we love going to Houston?