Party Prep

My mom and I boarded the airplane on our way to Texas, but we walked around, checked out the shops and stopped to get snacks while waiting.  The airport has a machine you can pay to charge, what looks like, any device. 

They also have a wonderfully titled book – HAHAH: 

I found an amazing massage chair for Doug while thumbing through the airplane magazine: 

My mom is not big fan of flying; she doesn’t like taking off, landing, or turbulence…which is basically what flying is:).  We flew through numerous puffy clouds which caused turbulence on all of our flights: 

My sister in law, Tammy, picked us up at the airport.  I booked the wrong airport because I didn’t know the city has two of them, so the trip back and forth took twice as long as it should have.  We got back to their apartment and decided to go out to dinner.  There was an accident on the way to dinner and apparently tow trucks are plentiful in Texas!!  Tow trucks line up waiting to make money on a broken down car, accident, or whatever it might be.  Justin and Tammy said that there might be a small accident, but traffic will be horribly backed up because a dozen tow trucks will show up.  I got a taste of it when we were stuck behind an accident where 4 tow trucks were waiting for a cut.  We never saw the accident because we took another route, but I took a quick picture of a few of the tow trucks waiting around: 

Pretty sky on the way back from dinner:  

The next morning Justin and I set up shade canopies for the party. 

Justin made strawberry daiquiris and piña coladas. 

I played with their dog, Lucy, for a while; she’s a silly dog: 

It was pretty hot and humid, so we took a couple trips to the pool. 

 Cute picture of Justin and Tammy:

One of the margarita machines that Justin rented wasn’t working, so he drained the mixture from the machine to see if it would freeze at all; it did, so he poured the mixture back in.  It still didn’t freeze.  He drained the mixture out again and swapped machines.  It made the mixture really cold, but wouldn’t freeze.  Draining and swapping machines: 

When he called the man who rented them to Justin, he was told, “Oh yeah, that one has been acting up.”  What the freak?!!! You know the machine isn’t working right, but still rent it??!!  Stupid people. 

People started to show up for the party and while I was getting to know everyone a butterfly was tossed around by a giant fan Justin borrowed from a friend.  I picked it up to help it to safety; we decided later in the evening that it was a drone spying on us: 

It was really hard not to sweat in 92 degree weather with 50%+ humidity (felt like 100+ degrees).  One of their friends, Monica, kept teasing me that I don’t sweat because she sweats a lot.  I told her hate sweating and I was really trying not to: 

I took a picture to share with Doug since he was in Chicago for training: 

After shooing the “drone” away, I got to play with a very well behaved and well trained Shepherd (for reference, Monica is on the left in the picture):