Adventures of Aunt and Uncle

My sister Mona and brother-in-law Shaun were visiting us here in Houston for a full 9 days last week and it was great to be able to have them here for an extended period. Long weekends just aren't long enough sometimes. This was a big visit, so big blog post. Our Memorial Day weekend got semi-derailed as I ended up working a bunch for the mission but we still had a good time at things like the Dynamo soccer game and outlet mall shopping. But with the mission, they were here for the crew return ceremony, so we went over so they could see that at Ellington.

Then John and Shaun headed out for a two day offshore fishing trip. While the boys were gone, Mona and I had an awesome girls day at the spa and lunch after. For the locals, we went to the Garden Spa at Memorial Herman on 59 South and they have much better pricing than typical spas and excellent service to boot. All of our treatments were great and I'd totally go again. On Saturday, we took Zara to the beach and it was her first time at an age and weather conditions that allowed her to actually play in the water. SHE LOVED IT! We know she likes the water but I have never seen her so dedicated to any activity for that long. I could just sit in the shallow water and she played with her buckets and splashed for hours. Definitely on the "must do again and often" list.



Then Saturday evening the boys returned from a pretty epic fishing trip where they combined to catch over 250lbs and Shaun caught the most on the boat. The pulled in king mackerel, bee liner, black fin tuna, snapper, and (my fav of the catch) yellow fin tuna. They had a great time and we have a monster freezer haul after a late night assembly line breaking the rough prepped fillets down to meal size steaks and fillets. Here are the boys with the haul and HALF the catch in the freezer as the other half made its way up to Seattle Sunday. We were sorry to see them go, but glad we all got to spend so much time together.