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After a weekend trip to New Braunfels to visit Gamma, I am back home with my little friend.  He spent the weekend at the Pooch Patio and I can’t tell if he’s tired because he had that much fun or if he’s depressed because I left him behind.  Whatever the case, he’s happy to be home and be able to enjoy consecutive naps on the couch.

NB was fun when I finally got there. Its always a nice feeling visiting your grandparent’s house.  Something about it reminds you of your childhood and its a comforting feeling.  Its also nice to be waited on hand and foot!  We enjoyed going out to breakfast both mornings, doing a little shopping, taking a couple naps, yours truly enjoyed a facial compliments of G, and we made it to church this morning.  Last night, the whole family came down to eat dinner and it was a typical Griswold outing.  I would expect no less.  It began raining cats and dogs as we were getting ready to go eat, Mamacita’s fails to remember our reservations and its a musical chair contest to get settled in the bar while we wait for our table.  And then another musical chair dance when we finally did get to our table.  Gamma also prepared gifts for everyone, which ranged from a jar of pickles to kitchen towels.  

As we were finishing up our meals, ESM (Laurie, my “excellent” step mother…well, she is only excellent on her birthday and on Mother’s Day, the rest of the year “E” stands for evil, muahahaha), well she was curious about the extra large pepper that was on the fajita platter Dad and I were sharing.  We aren’t pepper experts, especially not myself, and we were taking guesses at its level of hotness.  My theory is that since it was rather large it had to be less potent.  For some reason I was under the impression that the tiny ones were the ones that were on fire.  So, ESM takes one of the peppers and cuts of a tiny piece from the tip and tries it.  Not hot at all.  I decide I’d like to try it also, since I love the grilled bell peppers that come with fajitas.  I’m a little bit more ambitious and cut off about 1/3 of the pepper and pop it in my mouth.  Within about 3 seconds tears start rolling down my face and I immediately press my tongue to a flour tortilla like its frozen to an icy flag pole in the middle of winter.  Apparently, the portion I cut off had about a million seeds in it, whereas ESM (EVIL, EVIL, EVIL) probably didn’t consume a seed.  I spent about 5 minutes experiencing an emotional hot flash before starting to believe I am going to be ok.  This of course reminded me of when I was in London I was dared to eat a slice of a jalapeno in order to earn a dollar.  A dollar.  Luckily my friends picked the slice with the most seeds.  What a good deal!!!  Jerks.  You can see how ridiculously large this pepper was…

We went back to Gamma’s house to hang for a bit and look through pictures of my darling niece, Halle.  Who is for sure destined to be the “Class Clown” and it makes Auntie Em so ridiculously proud.  Her new thing is trying on shoes.  She decided to give ESM’s sandals a go while we were debating pictures.  She had no problem walking around in these suckers, which is probably because she could walk flat because her tiny feet fit in the top half of the shoe and the heels just drug along behind as she walked. Isn’t she cute?

I’m not really sure what my Dad is doing to Gamma in the first picture, but it looks kinda painful.

All in all a pretty good weekend!  Lesson learned about the jalapenos.  You can fool me once, you can fool me twice, but I’ll be darned if I get fooled three times.