Anne in Austin: A fun filled Thanksgiving Week

Jeff and I left late Tuesday evening to drive down to Galveston to spend the first part of Thanksgiving with his family. We spent Tuesday evening with his brother and sister in law and their two kids. One of them Madison, has a profound fear of dogs and we were hoping that Milo's super puppy powers would win her over, though she seemed interested in the puppy and his feeding regime, when her brother Caleb but her barbie in Milo's crate and she saw Barbie's head in Milo's mouth, I think additional trauma ensued. Anyway, they have a lovely home, newly renovated in the area right around rice. Milo and Q both enjoyed their walk the following morning.

Wednesday we got to Galveston. There was definitely a ton of devastation from the Hurricane Ike, but Jeff's parent's houses came through okay. The stories about the initial days back are quite horrific. Jeff's mom, Suzette, is an amazing cook and made all sorts of vegetarian friendly dishes which was very sweet. We walked along the sea wall a couple times and fought off mosquitoes pretty much anytime we were outside. It was really a very nice couple of days.

Then we drove back to Austin didn't do too much other than yoga and walking the dogs, watched some movies, read the Gita in preparation for Carlos, got some samosas to eat after Mandy's second annual burn the bird practice. This weekend was the fourteenth anniversary of my yoga practice (more on that on the teaching blog in a bit).

Monday, I went to Charly's class and when I got out I found that one of my best friends from high school, Josh Hilberman, had called. It turns out he's in town for the week doing some tap work at Tapestry and out at St. Stephen's school as well. he came over to meet Milo and we'll get together a couple times while he's here. So that's what's new since last week.

Me and Milo at the sea wall.