love deeply: spring break, part 1

just as my family gets ready to begin their journey out west to visit us for the rest of spring break, it seems to be a good time to recap the first part of our week.

spring break began with a relaxing night at home on friday...spring break could not really start until we were rested up from a week of little sleep. once that was taken care of, we were ready to embrace everything great and wonderful about spring break.

we drove to college station saturday night, enjoyed some good country food for dinner, and then took in some baseball on sunday. it was soooo nice for us to enjoy a sunday afternoon game and not have to rush home to get ready for the work week. let us not forget the whopping 4 games of scene it trivia we played with katy as well. lee almost had a complete undefeated run but was stopped with a last second victory in round 2 of disney trivia...betcha can't guess who won?! :)

monday brought quite possibly the most perfect weather day we have had so far. we, of course, took advantage of this and spent the afternoon outside on what turned into a wonderful "day date." we decided on the houston museum of natural science where we discovered dinosaur fossils, precious gems, exotic shells, and yes, even the pendulum from LOST (ok, not really but the only one i've ever seen in person).

then, being the explorers that we are, we took a stroll through hermann park. hermann park, for those non-houstonians reading, is right in the middle of downtown houston. right in the middle of skyscrapers, hospitals, and more. needless to say, not what you would expect to find amidst all the concrete and metal.

what we did find was a beautiful, peaceful japanese garden tucked away beside the lake. seriously, you would never know you were in downtown houston when you walk through this place. we also found a washington-monument look-alike which is actually the "pioneer monument." we then discovered all of this connects right up to the zoo where we could have parked for free...oh well!