Traveling to Houston

Well we are in Houston now, and I start work on Monday! Yowzers! Today I took some clothes to a same day dry cleaner and then bought a blue blazer so I can fit in with all the other preppies at work. That's right. Between going to UVA law and buying a blue blazer and working at a big firm, I'd say I have pretty much become everything that I have ever hated. In happier news, the following pictures!

 Some of you have probably heard of Stonehenge. It turns out that it is a cheap knock off of an amazing place in Central Virginia where the big stones are actually made out of foam! We didn't get any pictures of the actual henge because we almost got stuck in the mud on the crummy "road" leading up to it. Sabrina told us not to go to it and we should have listened.

 Just down the road from Foamhenge is a wax museum. I normally think these are creepy, but this one had a wax guy swinging from a rope in the front - just back and forth like a pendulum. Not creepy at all...

 So the previous two attractions were just sideshows around the actually cool thing - natural bridge! It is really impressive when you see it. I think it is almost two hundred feet high and there is a highway that drives across it. Really cool. And of course being in Virginia they don't forget to tell you constantly that it was once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

 On the second day of our trip to Houston, we stopped at Rock City, on the Georgia and Tennessee border. This is a picture of Yogurl successfully getting through the Needle's Eye while wearing Clark strapped in his baby carrier. Brava!

 Me and Sabrina looking out from an outcropping in Rock City. Apparently you can see seven states from here, visibility permitting. For the record I don't normally wear my sunglasses on my head like that. I wanted them off my eyes for the picture and the photographer failed to mention that they looked even more ridiculous there than blocking my eyes.

 Sabrina has gotten to sleep on sofa sleepers this whole trip. She enjoys sleeping in such a big bed all by herself.

 On the way through Mississippi, we got some boiled peanuts. For those of you from California, like myself, you should know that it is pronounced "Missippi" and "boled" peanuts. A lady at a park where we stopped for lunch asked how I spelt Sabrina's name. I thought she must have misheard her name since I couldn't think of any other way to spell it. She said she asked since some people spell it with a "u." Welcome to Missippi folks. Subrina? Sabrinu? My wife will probably delete this whole paragraph because she tires of my West Coast snobbery. She needs to remember that there is nothing I can do about it: I own a blue blazer now...

 Maybe the best part of the trip was eating delicious foods in Louisiana. We had etouffe, poboys, boudin, jambalaya and gumbo. Of course we also stopped at Cafe du Monde. I don't know what is happening in the picture here, but it must be sorrow that the beignets are running out.

 We had seen a claw game at a Kroger earlier in the week and Sabrina really wanted to play with it. I told her we could with the next one we saw, thinking that we wouldn't see one for so long that she would forget. Two days later she saw one in a diner in New Orleans and asked to play. I had to keep my word so we played it once and won this great stuffed animal. I feel it is a fitting souvenir of New Orleans with the pink eye shadow and green and yellow flame pattern fur. Sabrina named him "Cafe Triste" which one of this blogs' biggest fans will recognize as being from Cat You Better Come Home.

In other news, Clark has started eating solid foods. This is a picture of eating solids for the very first time. This was avocado, which he really liked. His reaction to squash would have made for a great video, but we didn't record it.