The Culhane Bed and Breakfast is on a roll. Guests No. 3&4 were successfully entertained.
Morgan and Taylor came down over the weekend and stayed a few days. It was their spring break and since Taylor is moving down here later this year they thought they'd get a head start on looking at apartments. And let us tell ya, they weren't ready for the amount of apartment complexes here. I mean, there are millions of 'em and they all start looking the same -- wood floors, granite counter tops, great amenities, washer & dryer and steep rent that us Tulsan's aren't used too. We ran into the same problem when we came down to look. We had a notebook that after we went through a place we jotted down notes to remind us of the pros and cons. And since we had a dog we had even more things to think about with what the compex offered us aka do they even allow pets, do they have a dog area to let them off their leash and what was the dog weight limit {sometimes we found out that it was 35 lbs for that particular apartment complex and our dog is full grown and 40 lbs.... and they wouldn't take her. Jokes on you suckas since we have pretty much the best dog in the galaxy} So, honestly we pretty much had to choose the apartment we were going to live in by how our dog would like it. Again, usually they have a pet weight limit, but ours is by breed. Which is actually better so you don't have the aggressive ones around. I mean, come on, you can have a 100 lb golden retriever but it's the nicest dog in the world. Why not let it live there?! So once we found a nice complex that was in a decent area with an amazing dog run we threw in the towel and stopped looking at others.
Back to the main point of this post: friends.
It was wonderful having them here. Really makes us excited for when he moves down and she comes to visit him. They came on St. Patty's day and we had planned to go to dinner at a cool irish pub in Rice Village and then afterwards walk to a couple other pubs. We did not plan well. We knew it was going to crowded, but the crowd that we saw was astonishing. The place we had planned to go to dinner was so packed that Layne and Morgan got out of the car to see how long the wait would be, but before they even got in they were going to be charged a 10$ cover. No thanks. Not to just eat and get a beer {it probably woulda taken 2 hours to get our food anyway}. So we started to drive away from the green masses and happened to go by a cute, small Mexican restuarnt that Morgan had eaten at before. No line. No green people. Just good mexican food, margs and beers. Finally after that we decided to drive back into the crowd to go to one of our favorite pubs that had no cover: The Gingerman. {Kyle esp loves it since he is aginger and a man, and we bought him a beer glass with the logo. And now that we're thinking, all redheads should get at least one free beer at that pub. After all it's their pub} When we all went back home, we taught them to play Nertz and Kyle especially demolished the competition. It was a fun night, but finally the girls were tired so we went off to bed. The boys however decided to stay up, catch up and drink a couple, er... a few, old fashioneds.
Next morning came way to soon, esp for those boys. We made some waffles, took naps, ate our favorite pizza, took more naps, went out to city center, ate some Chicken Tikka Masala, went home to watch the Thunder play and then off to bed. Successful Sunday.
While Kyle was at work, Layne, Morgan and Taylor went to look at some apartment complexes for him. We did go through some cool ones and I think they found a front runner that day. For lunch we met up with Kyle and ate at a hamburger joint: Southwells. Layne doesn't usually eat meat. She's not necessarily a vegetarian, but 99% of the time while at a restaurant she'll order a meal with no meat. Randomly though, doesn't happen too often, she gets those cravings for meat. On this day a hamburger sounded good. No, not good. Amazing. And it was gone in like 2 bites. We then whisked them off to Central Market and bought some food for that nights dinner: fish tacos with mango salsa, lime-marinated cabbage, corn on the cob. We also got some white wine to drink with those tasty tacos. Afterwards Layne and Morgan proceeded to open up three more bottles of red wine. It was their fun night.
We have this huge glass vase type thing we got for our wedding {from Layne's awesome cousins Rosana and Anthony - thanks again!} and we decided to fill it up with the wine corks from all the bottles we drink. When we open up a bottle with friends or family we have them sign it and put the date on it. Whenever it's full, we'll empty it and go through it and remember all the fun memories. Morgs and Tay already have a couple corks in there and I'm sure there will be more in the future.
The next day consisted of more "apartment shopping". Before we could function we went to our favorite cafe to get some breakfast and Layne's favorite chai lattes {these are so good they could be a factor for staying in Houston longer than we thought}. That breakfast was awesome, so awesome that we forgot to get hungry for lunch. 3 pm rolled around and the Barca game was about to come on, so what do we do? We headed straight on over to our favorite english pub Richmond Arms and had a late lunch. This was a must do on our list since Taylor is a Liverpool fan and will have the pleasure of watching Liverpool lose to Arsenal at least twice next season.
It was so great to spend time with them and truly catch up. Haven't really done that with them since highschool {or that's what it felt like!}. But honestly we are super excited for another friend to move to our new stomping grounds and to hang out with them more. Oh the memories us four will make.
Once again, no pics with our house guests. We have to be diligent photo takers. No more wishy washy, fake photogs in this family.
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