Monthly Archives: July 2021
Planning Our Next Trip?
Jan’s lunch date at the Cheddar’s up on the Tollway and Westpark never showed up, but Jan said she had a nice trip and a good lunch anyway. Later, getting back to the Clear Lake area, she did some shopping before picking me about 3:15 for the trip home.
We did make a Cowboy coffee stop for our usual Sugar-Free Hazelnut Lattes. And as delicious as usual.
Jan and I started talking/planning? our possible next trip this morning. Having just seen Yakov Smirnoff this past weekend, this brought Branson to mind, and that led us to Christmas in Branson. So we’ve started looking at dates, hotels, shows, etc,
Based on the distance, we’ll probably make it a two-day trip with a stopover in Texarkana going and coming.
Right now we’re thinking December 5-11, but that could change. However the plans are in the works.
After the New Coke debacle back in the 80’s, you would think they’d have learned their lesson. But apparently they haven’t. Recently Coke announced that they were reformulating the formula of Coke Zero to make it taste more like regular Coke.
Now most people I know, along with me, think that it’s really hard to tell the difference now. So if figures that anything they do is just going to screw it up.
![Old-New Coke Zero]](https://ourrvadventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Old-New-Coke-Zero.png "Old-New Coke Zero]")
At least they’ve also redesigned the can, so I’ll know when to stop drinking it.
Tomorrow we’re heading to the Conroe area to meet up with Debi and Ed Hurlburt for lunch at The Catch, a new place for us. But the menu looks good.
Thought For The Day:
Burning your bridges can take too long. Explosives are better.
Astor or Astro?
Jan and I were on the road up to Katy about 10:45 to meet Brandi, Lowell, and Landon at the new location of Astor Farm To Table.
This is a big upgrade from their former location, believe me.
Jan got their Fresh Strawberry Salad with Grilled Chicken.
I got the Cowboy Omelet with pretty much everything in it except the African Goat Curry.
Lowell got the Croissant Eggs Benedict with Roasted Potatoes.
One thing that was kind of funny was the name of the restaurant that showed up on my PayPal debit card usage email,.
“You paid ASTRO FARM TO TABLE using your debit card.”
So it looks that when the restaurant owner switched the ‘O’ and the ‘R’ when he was entering the name into the credit card system, so ASTOR became ASTRO.
Getting down to Galveston we were lucky enough to find a parking spot in a lot right across the street from the 1894 Grand Opera, and as I said yesterday, we were required to wear a mask both in the lobby and in the theater itself.
But even with the masks being worn, the theater was still ‘social distancing’; Or at least that’s what it looked like.
All the seats were socially distance, with the red covers dividing up the blue, usual seats. In fact it looked like less than half the total seats were actually available.
Jan and I really enjoyed seeing Yakov Smirnoff yesterday afternoon. Not only is his stuff really funny, but it makes you think.
He started saying that he grew up in the communist, socialist Soviet Union where the government was so restrictive and controlling that they told you where you could live, who you could live with, where you could work, where you could travel, where you could eat, who you could eat with, and what you had to wear.
And then he said, “Oh, wait”
That got the biggest laugh and applause of the show.
The performance lasted about 90 minutes with no intermission, and afterwards, Yakov came out to the lobby and signed autographs and posed for pictures. Though with everyone wearing a mask, you could have been having your photo taken with just about anyone, and just said it was with Yakov, I guess.
Being on the far side of the theater exit, by the time Jan and I got to the lobby, there was a very long line waiting to see him, so we left for our Saltgrass dinner reservation.
And to paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, it seems that when the Galveston Saltgrass Steakhouse takes a reservation, they keep the reservation. This is the 3rd time that we’ve had a reservation down there during a very busy time, and we’ve also been seated within a couple of minutes of our arrival. And I always ask for a window table, if possible, and we’ve always gotten one.]
Since I’ve posted photos of our steaks previously, I won’t do it again. But everything was as delicious as always.
Thought For The Day:
