The (Mis)Adventures of Spring Break Part 2

We went to church with my brother and his family on Sunday, then spent the afternoon visiting and relaxing with them.

J wanted to show me how he makes N laugh :)

 Cute nephews in their pjs!

Monday, I went to Target and a few other stores with Vanessa (my sister-in-law) and her sister. We didn't really end up buying much, though.  We went to Chick-Fil-A for lunch (yum, yum!) and brought some back for Peter.  We stayed home most of the afternoon, taking naps and visiting with family.  We did our best to spend time with my brother's family because we don't get to see them very often.  

Doing movements to the book V is reading

Talking to dad through the roof!

Peter was entertaining all the kids outside the ball pit.  They thought he was hilarious trying to juggle.

Monday night, I managed to catch a stomach bug, so I spent most of Tuesday on the couch.  Wednesday, Peter and I finally went out and about together.  First, we stopped at Bucky's gas station, which is HUGE!  It's definitely Texas-sized.  We then continued on to a little town called Gruene and did some window shopping, but my stomach was feeling very gassy and I never felt like eating.  Poor Peter was really hungry by the time we were on our way back.  So after we got back to Matt and Vanessa's house, we decided to go back to Gruene so that we could eat at the Grismill--one of my brother's favorite restaurants that Peter had never eaten at before.  We were glad that we did.

Pictures with Bucky!

N thought Uncle Peter was pretty cool.

At the Gristmill

Have to take selfies if we want a picture of both of us

Our view out the window of the Gristmill to the river.  

Thursday, we went downtown and ate on the Riverwalk, then went to see Wicked.  It was only Peter's second time seeing it, and we really enjoyed it.  We had to sit separately because we bought our tickets late, but we both ended up sitting in areas where we were allowed access to a private lounge area.  I was actually in a box seat!  Peter was sitting on the balcony towards the front middle.  We felt very fancy.

Theater where we saw Wicked

 The inside of the theater was so pretty!

Thursday night, we got to do what we had really wanted to do on this trip: spend a couple of hours just chatting with Matt and Vanessa.  We had visited a little the other evenings, but we hadn't planned our time very well and Matt has to get up early, so he goes to bed early.

Friday morning, I didn't really want to leave.  I think I dragged packing out longer than strictly necessary, but we finally left around noon.  Our trip back was much less adventurous than our journey out, but poor Peter finally got the stomach bug on Friday night/Saturday.

Playing around while getting the air out of the air mattress!

I also realized I had taken lots of pictures of Peter with his nephews, but had gotten none with them myself!  So, we took some before leaving Friday morning.

Date Night!

Peter and I went on another date Friday night!  We went out to eat at Applebee's, then to see Les Mis.  The food was good, and the show was awesome!  Afterwards, we found a quiet spot on campus and Peter attempted to teach me to waltz, so we could practice for our wedding dance!  It was a lot of fun.  After that, we went back to my house, and Peter got ahold of the camera and tried to take pictures of me.

Step Three: Explore my soon-to-be home

I ran into my friend from Williamsburg, Thomas Jefferson.

 It is the 50 year anniversary for the Shakespeare Festival, and we went to see A Midsummer Night's Dream.

 We went up the mountain a little ways, and I actually drove back down, which was interesting.  Dad was teaching me how to use the gearshift to control our descent.

Here was the stage before the play started.  The play was excellent.  It was soooo funny!  We arrived early to get good seats for the Green Show, but it started raining, so that was moved inside.  It had stopped by the time the show was supposed to start, so we moved back outside to the replica of the globe theater.  However, not long after the show started, the rain began again.  The actors were excellent at adlib.  They would mention the rain when it wasn't in the original script, and they would react to the thunder.  At one point, the actor who played Puck ran across the stage, slipped, fell, and landed pretty hard.  The girl onstage with him kind of froze, a scared look on her face.  After a moment, he got up, took a breath or two, looked at the audience, and says, "We're good."  Then he went on with the show, although he was more careful when moving across the stage from then on out.  At intermission, they moved us inside because it was still raining off and on, and even some of the audience was getting wet.  Once we were inside, the show just seemed to get even funnier.  Partially, it was just the show and the actors, but part of it was malfunctions.  The duke's wife had a wardrobe malfunction, and the actors played it off magnificently!  It was hilarious.  The entire show was excellent.  I laughed until I cried.

The next morning, it was still raining, and as we left that afternoon, there were clouds in front of the mountain; it was pretty.