Happy Thanksgiving 2011!
Another year has zipped by and here we are at the table again. This time however we are not at the Jo-Anne and Bruce table but a restaurant called La Riviera in Bryan. And yes I know the picture isn't the best; back of Richard's head (however it is his hair ... lucky guy), grand kid staring at his mom, my dad vigorously chowing down, and Jo-Anne gesturing at the laughing Leighanne ... hey the food was excellent and I had more than my share.
Before I go too far here is the story. OK, we have no house in the area near my parents any more and we are in Dallas. So what to do. Let's just pop down to their area on the holiday and have a good meal at a restaurant and the out of town folks can stay in a hotel. Hah! The College Station area where my parents are is an insane college football town where the last hotel was booked a year ago for this day for the 150,000 fans and the rate if you could find a bed was over $400 a night. There were no available hotel rooms or RV spots within 50 miles of the town for Wednesday or Thursday night ... and none of it had anything to do with the holiday at all ... just college football.
Because we didn't want Mom and Dad to travel far, so we booked a local restaurant with no problem (all the locals are at the game) and we were able to get into the Aggieland RV park in Bryan which was full but the manager keeps us in mind and offered us an empty piece of pavement before it went public.
We were there from the 22nd to 25th of November and managed to squeeze in some doctors appointments as well before we headed back to the Dallas area. Now back here we are helping Leigh and Brooks move their wedding photography business from the loft they had just to the south of downtown Dallas to one more near their home and in Addison north of downtown proper.
While we though we'd stay at this park for a bit longer we have now booked back into the Vineyards (the name maybe, eh) over in Grapevine from the 10th of December until the 10th of January. We have been there several times for just a few days so a month will be a new twist. This will get us over to the new year and then we can plan for 2012 even better.
