Easter was fun, despite having to drive through the gloom to spend less than 24 hours at the lake house. I spent another holiday with Jose and his extended family and it was lots of fun. And they remembered me. Score!
One of Jose’s aunts has a small house at Lake Corpus Christi, so that was the scene for the celebration. Because it’s about an hour from Corpus itself, we just drove straight to the lake on Saturday night to save the extra driving time. If Thursday and Friday’s weather had held, it would have been really beautiful up there. As it was, we just made do with the clouds, drizzle, and 40 degree temperatures.
We ate yummy food, we played basketball, we checked out a grass strip near the house (maybe Jose can fly there once he gets his license), we went out on the lake in a little boat to see if we could catch some catfish (nope), and we scared the geese and the geese scared us. Those were some seriously aggressive geese.
More importantly, we had two rounds of cascarones and I smashed many eggs on many heads. Jose’s mom made me my own box of them so I had a secret stash. The funniest person was Jose’s little 4-year-old cousin Megan, who would point at the ground and say “your shoes are untied” to get you to bend down to where she could reach your head. As luck would have it, my shoes came “untied” at least a half dozen times. Go figure.
The only downer was that I seem to be allergic to something — the house, the great outdoors, who knows — and spent most of yesterday sniffling and sneezing. It seems to have mostly cleared up today, with some lingering eye itchiness.
Now it’s back to work, which is always a struggle after such a hectic weekend. I’m heading to Charlotte this weekend though, so that’s something to look forward to.