Past week recap: birthdays, travel, food, and the unexpected

Eating breakfast at Kelley's country cookin'

This past week DH and I celebrated our 80th birthdays. We are only 9 days apart in age. Of course I'm the older one (which should give me some clout, right?)

Well, we had planned for some time to visit DH's brother and his wife, who live in the Houston area, in July, so we told the kids we didn't want any big todo for this milestone... the trip was our celebration.

DH's brother and wife are connoisseurs of good food and watch shows that show local restaurants and chefs that one might want to try. So needless to say, we eat out a lot when visiting them and vice versa. It's fun... and we enjoy it with them... probably because it's not something we tend to do on our own.  

Here are a few pictures of one of our breakfasts:

my breakfast egg sandwich

veggie omelette

eggs benedict

It was all very good. They had previously brought home a chocolate cream pie from this restaurant and we nibbled on that for several days. I'm a lover of good chocolate pie and this one was very good.

Kelley's chocolate cream pie

We also went to several other restaurants that were all excellent, but the one I wanted to special mention here is called Paris Baguette. Some of you may be familiar with it. We weren't... and were blown away when we walked in.

There are rows and rows of pastries , sweet and savory, breakfast sandwiches, cakes, pies, etc. You pick up a tray and  tongs and go down the rows picking up whatever you want, then to the cashier to pay for it before sitting down to eat or taking it home. They heat up the pastry or whatever as needed for you. It's awesome. 

Here are some pics:

We each picked out 2 things to try and sat down and shared. All were good. But of course we had our favorites and have already picked out what we would need to try next time.

I wanted to take pics at all the restaurants, especially the Seafood one and the Mexican one... but I'm lucky I even remembered to take these.

And I mentioned 'the unexpected' in the title here... unfortunately we got a phone call from our oldest son the same day we left for Houston. He had to take his wife to the ER that night and the they were waiting to transfer her to a Houston hospital for surgery. 

Since we were already in Houston, we planned to stay a few extra days to be with them. As it turned out, they ended up transferring her to a hospital in San Antonio. The ambulance broke down twice on the way and finally they had to wait for another ambulance to continue. Then... they brought her to the wrong hospital first, then finally to the right one. My son's comments were: "you can't make this s... up".

Anyway, she is in surgery now. As far as what kind of surgery, I'm not sure... only that it was 'complicated' (something to do with bile ducts and stents?) and couldn't be done at the original hospital where they live. Waiting now to hear from son on how the surgery went.

That's it for the recap. Hope your week was good. Thanks so much for reading. 

Also: My biopsy for this bump on my lower lid will be biopsied Thursday by an eye surgeon. The thought of it scares me... (I shouldn't be such a wus - but IT'S MY EYE). If it's benign, the eye surgeon will cut it out and sew it up in his office. If it's not benign, he will have to send me elsewhere.  

Hugs (virtually),

Rian