It's Getting So Close

to moving day!  I am excited and nervous all at the same time.  Excited for the change and nervous for the future.  The school year ended this past Friday and my job will be officially over in just a couple of short weeks.  For the first time in 10 years I will be jobless.  I'm a little scared as to what lies ahead for me.  What dos the Lord have planned for me? I already told Leland that if I did not have a teaching job by July 1 I would start looking outside education.  One of my co-workers actually gave me the idea of working for the YMCA which I am seriously thinking about doing. I am hoping to have something soon, but I keep getting the "we have all our candidates and you are not one of them" e-mails.  Frustrating!  But let's not dwell too much there.

While I am preparing for this move there is more fun to be had!  Last night was Leland's last night in Houston and I wanted to give him a positive memory of Houston to leave on, so I planned a fun little date night.  We went to Brisket House (mostly for their uh-mazing baked potato salad) and did a picnic on the side of San Felipe Road.  Here's the details:

On the way to Brisket House, as we crossed the railroad tracks, the car in front of us stopped suddenly.  I thought I saw something go into the road right before the lady stopped so I wasn't upset about the sudden stop.  The lady proceeds to put her car in park and get out.  She runs in front of her car and picks up this HUGE turtle!  She runs and places back off the road and we continue on our way to the food stop.  We get our food without any big events happening and start our way to the picnic spot.  There is this mosaic couch that sits back off San Felipe Road in the Galleria area that I have been wanting to get a picture of since we moved to Houston. I know I would forget about it if I didn't take the opp now to get the pic. So Leland gave me the "you're crazy, but I'm not getting out of this adventure" look and we walked to the couch.  I snapped the pic and then we began eating our dinner.  No sooner had we started eating and Leland saw a dinosaur sized mosquito.  These nasty little blood-suckers were gigantic!  Thankfully, I didn't even get a nibble, but poor Leland had three bites on his head and four more on other areas of his body.  At one point he had two mosquitoes on his head and I went to smack them, and smacked him a little too hard, oops :/  We went back to the car and finished dinner.  We were at the light waiting for it to turn green and Leland starts cracking up laughing.  I look behind us and see a guy trying to get back into his car, but he can't.  I thought the person in the passenger seat was mad and had locked him out of the car, but he got out to check something out on his car and the door closed and locked behind him.  He was finally able to get back in the car once his passenger realized what was happening and go when the light turned green.  Then it was on to dessert at The Dessert Gallery and back home for some time with Leland before he had to leave.

What a fantastic memory! Probably the best memory of Houston to date! I may not miss this city, but I will miss the fun times we have had when we were able to have them. I am so excited to get back to San Antonio, though, and start more fun memories!  Only 28 more days!