Our RV Adventures

Today was another travel day, but it started with Jan and I meeting Lowell, Brandi, and Landon at Pappasito’s Cantina up in Webster at 11am.

Jan always has the Shrimp Enchiladas, and didn’t break with tradition this time either. Brandi and Lowell split an order of Beef Fajitas, while I had their delicious (and large) Grilled Chicken Taco Salad.

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Landon had his favorite Mac N Cheese, but he also had a lot of grilled onions that came with Brandi and Lowell’s fajitas.

He loves to put the end of the onion in his mouth and then suck it in like a strand of spaghetti.

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After a really good lunch, we piled back into Brandi’s car and made another 50 mile trip, just like yesterday. But today we ended up west of Houston, between Katy and Fulshear to check out the area where Brandi and Lowell are considering buying a house.

The area they’re looking at is called Churchill Farms, and is located off of FM-1493 between I-10 and the Westpark Tollway/FM-1093.

This one, the Capri, is one of the two models that they’re looking at.

One thing neat about this model is that as you see when you walk in, it’s a two story model that doesn’t really look like one. In addition, they plan on getting the optional 1 car garage added to the left side of the house. The model above has an office behind the large glass windows in the front, where the two car garage would normally be.

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Just as you come in the door is what will be Lowell’s office, although it could be a 5th bedroom if you wanted.

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A dogleg to the left leads you into the dining room, kitchen, living room area.

All we could say was “WOW”!

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Down by the windows and to the right is the master bedroom.

The closet on the left here is just a small, secondary one. The master closet is through the bathroom and it’s enormous.

The master bath is very large, although I couldn’t get a good angle to show it.

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This is one of the two “Jack and Jill” bedrooms, which are bedrooms, usually for children, separated by a common area, sometimes a bathroom, or, as in this case, a play area.

This one was decorated for a girl, and when we told Landon this was going to be his room, he looked around for a few seconds, and then ran out, yelling “No, no, no”.

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He then ran through the play area and into this room, and said “This room Mommy, this one.”

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And here’s the playroom in between the two bedrooms.

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And here’s the bathroom for the two kid’s bedrooms.

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This is the patio and the backyard. Part of what you see here belongs to the model next door.

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Going up the stairs,

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you find the the living area. It could also be configured as a media area.

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And here’s the upstairs bedroom,

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and the attached bathroom.

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One thing that was interesting was a hole cut into the wall separating the upstairs living space from the attic area, and then glassed in.

This lets you see the heavy foam insulation sprayed between the rafters, and also between the studs in the outside walls.

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To show how efficient this insulation is in keeping the attic cool,

note the chocolate bunny rabbit sitting on the rafters. Apparently it never gets hot enough in the attic to melt the bunny.

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So this model that they’re looking at ends up being either a 4/3/3 with the office, or a 5/3/3 without.

All in all, a very nice future home.

Ideally they would like to be in the house by Christmas, but it’s much more likely to be the first quarter of 2014.

And of course, we still haven’t been able to agree on the location of our concrete RV parking pad, complete with full hookups. We’ll have to discuss it further.

Getting back to the rig about 4:30, we saw this large cabin cruiser/small yacht sailing into Dickinson Bayou for Galveston Bay. Nice!

And, No, Nick, you can’t have a boat.

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Tomorrow I’m going to try to get the day/night shade I restrung last week finally installed, and since the parts came in for my air bag proportioning valve repair, I going to try and get that done also. But that one kind of depends on whether we get rain or not.

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Thought for the Day:

“When Injustice becomes law, Resistance becomes duty.” Thomas Jefferson

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After a nice, quiet morning with our coffee, a little before 3 Jan and I headed up to Brandi and Lowell’s to meet up for a 50 mile drive up to the Woodlands area to have dinner at one of Lowell’s favorite places, Jasper’s – The Woodlands.

Jasper’s is the brainchild of Kent Rathburn, an award-winning chef, with 4 other highly-regarded restaurants in Texas. He trained in Paris at the famous Le Cordon Bleu Institute. But even more important to our tastes, in 2008 he beat out famed chef Bobby Flay to take the Iron Chef America crown.

We started off with a really delicious Shiner Bock Beer Cheese Soup, maybe the best soup I’ve ever eaten.

And yes, that’s popcorn in the soup, and it adds a nice crunchy texture to the dish. A novel touch.

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For our entrées Brandi and I had their award-winning Ribs, Jan had the Crab Cakes, and Lowell had the Prime Rib. And we all agreed how good it was

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For a light dessert, we tried out their “mini’s”, small, about the size of a shot glass, but just the right amount.

Jan and I split the Caramel Bread Pudding with Vanilla Ice Cream. Brandi also had the Bread Pudding, while Lowell had the Butterfinger Creme Brulee.

The perfect end to a fantastic meal.

After dinner we had planned to take in a nearby movie, but realized that we were so full that we’d probably all just fall asleep.

So instead we just walked around the Market Street area and took in the many high-end shops and stores. Jan and Brandi made a stop at the Baby Gap store for some new jammies.

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Jan’s sister, Debbie, sent over these shots of her granddaughters (our great-nieces). Below is Ella, new addition, Annisten, and Avery Jane. Really cute kids.

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And this little beauty is Gwen.

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Thought for the Day:

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

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