More Footie

Girlies football today out at Bear Creek Park. Laura picked me up at 8:30am and off we went, well we did once Laura turned her shorts the right way out! It was the first practice before the winter season starts in September. I haven't signed up as yet I was just giving it a go.

There are loads of pitches at Bear Creek and it was where I had watched Laura playing football on one of my first weekends in Houston. However, the pitch we had reserved had lots of men on it! We had been doubled booked! We managed to go on to the kids pitch sine it was only skill practice it didn't matter it wasn't full sized pitch. I was just as bad as I had been 5 years ago at five aside! However, it was fun. We were outside playing for about 2.5 hours, but it was getting hot by the end as the sun came out and I was relieved when at 1130 we call end it an end, not to mention the boots Laura had kindly lent me were pinching!

We were a right state, sweaty and covered in sand and grass. In spite of that we went to a place, somewhere not too far away, to have some lunch. It was like a ranch with horses outside. Everyone laughed at me when I complained the water tasted odd. Fortunately when I passed it around for a consensus most agreed with me. The waiter eventually said he would get me 'princess water'! That meant bottled and it tasted much better :) What you have to understand is that although Houston water is perfectly OK to drink it tastes odd and you mostly get filtered water for a good reason!

Laura and I spent a very relaxing afternoon by the pool and reading our books in the shade. I of course kept falling asleep after reading three pages! It was certainly the way Sunday's are meant to be spent :) Laura started weeding around the pool that I have been looking at for ages. The gardener only does the grass by the looks of it! Since she started she inspired me to continue in the flower bed next to the pool which had loads of grass in it. So all of that is now clear as well.

Tonight I was dying for a frozen margarita as I haven't had one for ages. So after a quick search on the web, I found a Mexican restaurant just round the corner called La Hacienda. I said to Laura we could walk, so we did, and it was no more than 15 minutes. We did, however, get a toot along Memorial! Possibly as we were so strange walking, even Laura said she hasn't done it much in Houston. The great thing is we can potentially walk to lots of places in the area. There are limited pavements, or rather sidewalks, but it is not an issue on the little roads. I should say the place itself had good food at extremely good prices and the frozen margarita's were pretty good too!

PS the reason for the shiny face is because I had to apply aloe vera aftersun! A bit much sun at football.