Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Grandparents Visit



From time to time, our parents will come for a visit. My parents were in Friendswood last week (fortunately, before it started getting really hot this week.) There is the usual visiting and playing with the girls and such. But they have been here a number of times, so it is getting more difficult to find new things to do. They joined us for worship at Hope on Wednesday where they had the opportunity to see and hear me preside the service and preach. There was an organ recital by our director of music on Thursday. Dad is an organist as well, so that was good for him. We saw the Butterfly Museum at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. We ate some local bbq and other homemade fare. Mom and Dad flew out Saturday which was interesting. Their flight originated in San Francisco. That morning, San Francisco International closed one of their runways - causing huge delays. We watched on the internet carefully as that flight finally took off. But Southwest made up a lot of time in the air and on the ground and the next stop in Phoenix. Ends up, an over hour and a half delay became only a 15 minute delay by the time the plane was in Houston. So, we rushed them over to Hobby Airport, and saw them on their way home.
It was a good visit and we look forward to many more.