Back at work after an awesome weekend of family fun, food and road-trips.
Friday was Cousin Alicia's Celebratory dinner for graduating Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Texas A&M at Ruth's Chris Steak House. The Steak was velvety soft, and the Shrimp were prepared to perfection and if you didn't get excited about the creamed spinach you just don't know creamed spinach. For dessert they brought out cake topped with fresh strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries and a heavy sweet cream sauce that I know i should have passed on but it was soooo delicious and did I mention it had fresh berries, so it had to be at least a little good for you, no?
Saturday, Jennifer and Betty got up nice and early to participate in day one of the Tour-de-Cure, a two day bike ride from San Antonio to Austin to raise money for Diabetes Research. The boys and I drove to San Marcus which is the finish line for day 1 and the starting line for day 2 to meet them and bring them back to San Antonio so they could change and then we drove to Pleasanton for Alicia's going away BBQ seeing as she is leaving to D.C. for a Summer Internship.
The BBQ was great. It was Texas, more Texas and waay Texas... BBQ, Beans, Shiner Bock and Lone Star Beer. I even got to hand the Mayor of Pleasonton his beers all night since I was sitting on the cooler! I got to hear lots of stories about Jennifer's family from Uncle John (I still shake my head at the story of how Betty traded her 454 Trans Am for a Ford Fiesta!) and he took the boys and I to race his 40MPH RC Truck.
Sunday, Jennifer and Betty got up early once again and drove to San Marcus to begin Day 2 of the Tour-De-Cure(59 miles day 1 / 80 miles day 2!) and the boys and I met them in Austin so we could have our annual after Tour-De-Cure meal at Steak-n-Shake. Then it was back to San Marcus to pick up Betty's truck then home for some much needed rest for them. (They are troopers and I don't know how they did it.)
It was a great weekend and I'm going to have to work very hard on training this week to make up for it but it was completely worth every extra mile and every extra crunch that its going to take just to get back to zero!
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