Lent 2010

Lent is right around the corner so I've got to decide what I want to give up.  I also want to make a commitment to attend church every Sunday and not skip.  Since it's only 6 weeks, I don't know how that could be an issue.  A big feat would be to get Zack to go along with me.  We'll see...
As far as what to give up, I'd like to go meatless.  I've done it before and it wasn't hard but that was when Zack wasn't eating any meat.  Since he does the majority of the cooking, I'm not sure how this will work out.  I guess I need to discuss this choice with him first!


I hope everyone has a great Lenten season!  

Special Olympics

Every year, we select a group of Special Olympians to do a program at my office called Life and Work Skills.  We teach them about a number of topics - office skills, resume writing, interviewing, budgeting, cooking and several others.  We had our first class at the end of January.  This month, I'll teach an intro class on interviewing skills.  Later this year, I'll teach the cooking class.  We 'cook' without fire so it's fun to come up with recipes.

The kids waiting for class to start.

We played an ice breaker game since it was the first class.  Here Monica (lady in red) is helping one of the students.

Zack's Dad Visits

Zack's dad came to town the weekend of February 5th.  We weren't sure what to do since he hadn't been in town for a long time.  We decided to head out to Katy on Friday to see the Forbidden Gardens.  I had heard that it was a cool place to visit.  I just thought it was ok.  It needs some sprucing up.

Replica of the Chinese terra cotta soldiers.  It's scaled to 1/3 the size of the actual site in China.

Zack and me with the Emperor.

Zack and his dad trying to decide if they want to pose like the statue.

Having some fun in the weapons room.

Replica of the Forbidden City.

On Saturday we headed out to Galveston for the day.  We knew we wanted to see the flight museum which was fun.  I was able to sit on one of the plane's wings.  The pilot was there and said you can buy a ride in that plane.  It's a little pricey and it seems a bit to scary for me.

I'm glad Continental doesn't fly these anymore!

As we were leaving the flight museum, I picked up a newspaper and saw that a Mardi Gras parade was about to start.  So, we headed down to the seawall to see it!  We made it down to 47th street and decided to grab lunch at Casey's.  It was yummy!  The parade hadn't made it down our way when we finished lunch so we headed out on one of the jettys.  It was rather cold out on the water.

  

I'm guessing that Kinky Freidman was the grand marshall of the parade?  He was the first car after the police.

One of the floats.

Another float.  Zack said these were rather small by comparison to New Orleans or Lafayette.  There were also a bunch of high school bands.

After the parade we headed over to Moody Gardens to check out the aquarium.  I've been there before but Zack and Burk had not.

Creepy fish!

Gotta love the penguins!

Don't these make you think of the Little Mermaid?

In the shark cage!

SHARK!

Overall we had a really great visit with Zack's dad.  We're going to go see him in Montana this May/June.  We are very excited about the trip!