Houston Weekend Recap

Happy Happy Monday friends! This weekend I had a whirlwind trip around the fair city of Houston, TX, my hometown. I brought my favorite ginger along, who'd never seen any of the Bayou City's splendors. A little look at what we did...

Houston Museum of Natural Science

We went to see a traveling Titanic exhibit, which was cool, but we had a lot more fun in the newly-upgraded Paleontology Hall...

Hobbit Hole Cafe

Lord of the Rings-themed lunch locale. Nerd city. Someone was dorking out in there with his Houstony beer...

Obviously, absurd Dragon and Gandolf t-shirts were bought... 

Wabash Feed Store

A random drop in to my favorite and strange mid-city country store. PUPPIES.

Water Wall Park

No iPhone photos taken, just real ones on the fancy camera... this is what it looks like:

It really is such a random thing. 

McGonigels Mucky Duck to see Hayes Carll

This was actually a Father's Day gift to my dad, but lucky ginger got to tag along. We got AMAZING seats right up front. The music was great and the place was cool. Best part of the weekend...

Astros Game

Hot dogs at Minute Maid park on a rainy Sunday afternoon...

It was a great weekend! And, it was so nice to take in some hometown sights... I'm lucky to have all that to call home.

Sweet Home Alabama

...well it's not really my home, but I did go there. I'd never visited Alabama, or really spent any time in the deep south, so everything was all new to me! Here's a little photo dump/recap of my time there...

Friday:

First we had lunch at The Club. It was a cute little members-only club where we went to dine and take in the beautiful Birmingham Skyline...

We then bopped around town and explored the old downtown area...

...and the fun and delicious Avondale Brewery:

Saturday:

We bopped around Homewood, Alabama for lunch and checked out tons of cute local boutiques:

... and then had to drive to Arab, Alabama for a wedding. It was in this ridiculously precious little white country chapel: 

The wedding itself was laid-back, fun and kind of an old-fashioned Southern throwdown. It was magnificent. Does there ever come a time in life when sparklers aren't fascinating and hilariously fun?

... please tell me no.

Sunday was spent doing lots of recovering and Traveling. Boo.

Generally, I had a GREAT time! Parts were a tad overwhelming (i.e. meeting the in-laws, childhood BFFs and a country wedding in Arab, AL), but all in all a wonderful little jaunt. Can't wait to go back!