Cuban food, antiques, Mercer & salsa

Straight to the re-cap…

Friday night: My friend Jennifer and I start the night off strong by joining Kenny and friends for some pool but by the time we were done with our yummy Cuban meal, we were too tired to go out so we went our separate ways and headed home. Aren’t we losers?

Saturday: I had a list of errands to do so I left Kenny in bed while I ran through the beginning of my list – post office (mailing off items I sold on eBay), bank, tailor and drycleaners. Did all this in less than hour because everything is so close to home and then went back to get Kenny up so he could join me for the rest of the day. Together we dropped off some clothes at Goodwill, dropped off some recycling, had buffalo burgers at Bubba’s, spent some money at the camera store on accessories (thanks Hon), got some bubble tea, visited an antiques dealer (more on that in a minute), went to Target and ended the long day at Mambo’s for dinner.

Back to the antiques dealer – I collect vintage artist-signed silver jewelry from Taxco, Mexico. In going through my collection, I have decided to sell a large ice bucket I have that is from one of the artist. It is highly collectible and I wanted an expert to tell me what it is currently worth. This lady was recommended to me by Christine so we headed over to her antiques dealership with my ice bucket. The woman was so friendly that the conversation turned into an almost 2 hour session where we talked about all sort of topics. To make a long story short, she has taken my ice bucket under consignment so we’ll see if it sells!

Sunday: Another busy day! This time it was all about me though! I left the house at 10 AM and left Kenny in bed. I drove up North to Humble where I met Hanna for some breakfast at the Humble City Café. After catching up over breakfast we headed over to Mercer Arboretum to take pictures for this month’s Assignment Houston. It was muggy and hot but not unbearable and we both really enjoyed running around the gardens with our cameras. I had never been out here and it was worth the trip. We only saw a small part of the arboretum and I would like to come back and see the rest some day.

We finished a little earlier than I thought so we headed to Hanna’s parents’ house where I changed out of my sweaty clothes into clean clothes that I had brought (since I knew I was going to be out all day). I then started the drive down to Pearland (South Houston) where I was substitute teaching a couple of salsa classes. I met my instructor and my classmate who I would be working with, went over what we were to review with the students and waited for the students. We actually had a lot of fun and I must admit the Beginner Level II’s were a little easier to teach than the Level I’s (who were only on their 2nd class). Still, everyone was really nice and patient with us and it seemed to me like everyone actually walked out having learned something. I really emphasized the importance of keeping a strong, firm frame and it noticeably helped. I look forward to teaching more classes!

Sunday night: Finally headed home at 6:30 PM after a long day! Rested my butt on the couch, had some spaghetti and watched a movie…

As you can see, I had a busy weekend and hardly any of it was spent at home! Now I am counting the days down to the next one! LOL