Michael and Lisa's wedding

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we headed to Austin for Zack's old friend Michael's wedding.  The wedding was held at a home on Lake Travis.  The views for the balcony were beautiful.

The wedding had a few differences because Lisa is from Japan.  Michael met here while living there a few years ago.  Her parents came to the wedding and it was there first time outside of Japan.  Michael and Lisa have to go back to Japan in March to have a traditional Japanese wedding.

Michael and Lisa looked out at the attendees instead of the judge through the ceremony.  I told Zack that I would have been terrified to look out at everyone during our wedding!

Lisa put that entire piece of cake in Michael's mouth!

Michael with the giant piece of cake in his mouth.

Everyone had an origami crane with the dinner menu.

Lisa in her kimono.

Here we are on the balcony over looking the lake.

The house the wedding was held at was unique.  It was massive and very artsy.  Below are some pictures of a few different things at the house.  

The front of the house.  The pool is straight through the open breezeway.  The lights hanging in the big window changed colors. 

The lights from the inside of the house.

 

These are chandeliers in the large living area on the second floor of the home.  You can see the light drops in the background.

This is a light fixture - yes, a light.  It was in the breakfast area.

The house had both a 4 car and 3 car garage with glass doors. The car on the left is a Ferrari Enzo and on the right is a Ford GTS.  There were only 400 Enzo's manufactured so it is an extremely expensive car.  According to Wikipedia it usually sells for a million dollars.

Lamborghini (not sure the model)

Not sure what type of cars these are.  I know the blue one is a Chevy based on the decal.

Needless to say, we felt very poor at this house.  It was nice but not what I would have done with a house on the lake.  I guess the old saying 'to each his own' is very fitting.

Overall the wedding was very nice and it was cool to see an extreme house.

Thanksgiving 2009

This Thanksgiving we went up to Dallas and stayed with Sam and Roshni.  Roshni prepared the entire dinner and refused any assistance.  It turned our great!  She did an awesome job.  I told Patricia that I'd not be able to pull it off without assistance.  It would stress me out way too much.

Roshni in great spirits while prepping the salad.

Zack and Sam hanging out watching football and playing a board game.

Our spread for dinner - there was only 7 of us.  We had a lot of food and it was all wonderful.

The day after Thanksgiving we didn't do much shopping but I found some cute boots.  We met one of Sam's old high school friends for lunch at a place called Gordon Biersch (a chain brewery restaurant). The couple lives in Washington DC and just happened to be in Dallas.  They were very nice!

Friday night we went over to Zack's aunt house for a spaghetti dinner.  It was tasty!  After dinner we headed to Roshni's parents house to welcome her sister-in-law into the country.  About two years ago Roshni's brother got married in India and his wife finally got her visa to come to the states.  She is very nice and seemed a bit overwhelmed.  Roshni's mom took a bunch of pictures.  Hopefully, I can get one and get it posted.  Her family is so nice.  They insisted that we eat some food, so we did.  I have grown to really enjoy India food.  After having 2 dinners we were stuffed!!

Again, I'm a bad blogger

I haven't blogged in over a month now.  I guess I'm not much of a blogger after all.  I need to post about Thanksgiving and our trip to Dallas!  I have some great pictures from our time there and the great dinner that Roshni prepared.  We also went to Austin to attend a wedding.  It was at a house on Lake Travis.  Hopefully, this weekend I'll get that all posted.

On Friday (12/4), Houston had a snow day!  My office closed early but Zack had to work.  We didn't have any snow stick at our house.  I wish it would have so I could get some cute pictures.  Oh well! 

I baked 3 batches of cookies and made some peppermint bark since we had no snow.  I packed the cookies up for an old high school friend currently deployed in Afghanistan.  I hope they arrive whole and still have some flavor.  It was really nice putting together the care package and I think I'll do it again in a few months.

Until next time!