Heather Visits

Last Saturday (3/7), Heather came out for a visit.  Her parents live about 90 minutes SE of here, so she could kill a couple of birds with one plane ticket.  As always, we had a great time with her here.  I am not sure if Luis remembers her (we last saw her in December, on our drive from MD-FL), but he definitely enjoyed her.

Saturday we hung around the house and cooked out for dinner.  My New Friend (as Luis calls everyone we know in Dallas) Leah came over for dinner and we had a great time.  Sunday we chilled around the house - playing outside in the beautiful weather, enjoying the swing set, went for a walk and just relaxed.  After naps, Luis and I drove Heather out to her parents house.  I didn't get all the details, but they live in a gated community - gated to keep in the several types of deer and the zebra!   Luis wasn't so psyched about the drive, and kept asking where we were going.  I told him we were going to Heather's parent's house.  He asked 100 times and I told him 100 times.  In the week since we were there, he's asked about a dozen times, "Heather at Parent's House?"  There was much fussing and a few tears on the way out.  Heather was a great sport at entertaining Luis, and even let him have a turn with her sunglasses.

 The drive, in the end, was well worth it as they had a HUGE yard with lake-front access.  They had a yard full of gumballs that could be thrown into the lake. And Heather taught Luis how to clean of his hands by rubbing them in the grass (he loved that idea).  Later, Heather's mom, Mary, took Luis and I out for a ride in the golf cart to try to espy some wild animals.  We saw two small herds of beautiful deer (or relatives of deer).  Mary was apologetic that it wasn't a better trip -- and invited us to come out anytime to try again.  I told her in Luis's mind, the trip couldn't have been any better:  he rode in a golf cart, he got to take turns pushing the gas pedal, he got to try steering, and he saw some goose poop close up.  Zebra, in fact, would have been less impressive than what he DID get to experience!