A Tea Party in Texas

Monday, November 2, Sr. D took me, Emily, and Taylor to a tea party at the Sam Houston Race Park (a huge horse race track). It was pretty awesome. There were more than 10,000 freedom loving people there. There were several people who spoke, most notably Lord Monckton, who is exposing the fallacies in the "Global Warming" lie, and alerting America of a treaty Obama will probably sign soon which will compromise our national sovereignty. It was a great speech and it felt good to be part of the whole thing.

Emily, Taylor and Sr. D

One shot of the crowd

Lord Monckton in a cowboy hat.

Happy Halloween!

Emily had two friends go trick-or-treating with her and they coordinated their costumes and went as 50's girls.
Our ward does an annual trunk-or-treat on Halloween, before it gets dark so that the kids can get twice as much candy as they normally would. (Just kidding, I don't know why, it's just the tradition!) We went. Taylor got a mask (above) and a tail (below) to show Halloween spirit. The tail came from Target's $1 section. The friend he's with below is Hardy and his brother went as Laurel. It was quite creative.
Remember the Alfred Hitchcock movie The Birds? Well, at a nearby intersection each fall, for about a month, we get a colony of purple martins that remind me of that movie. Each night there are thousands of them that cover telephone lines, trees, and store roofs. The air is just thick with them. I just can't photograph this phenomenon with justice, but I thought it appropriate to blog about it on Halloween!

Renaissance Festival

No, this is not the Halloween post yet, though it may look like it. Emily has been in a theater class this fall and they performed at a Renaissance Festival last Tuesday. They performed a couple of scenes from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Emily was in both the High School play and the Junior High play. She played Mr. Beaver in the HS version, and Mrs. Beaver in the Jr. H. Emily and the girl who played Mrs. Beaver in the HS play are walking to the theater with their teacher (in the blue dress).
Emily as Mrs. Beaver (above) fixing food before she meets the two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve. The cast (below) without Lucy, don't know where she is.
This place is amazing. It's a permanent facility about 1 1/2 hours north of Katy in Plantersville, TX. It has buildings and a big stadium (for the jousting tournament) that look like England in the middle ages. It's got outdoor theaters and rides that aren't electrically powered. Shops with clothing, trinkets, jewelry, and lots of food (turkey legs anyone?) The people running it all are a little eccentric in their dress and behavior, so I have only been once before.

Emily standing at the entrance as we left. She's got a plate of yummy funnel cake. (Like scones with powdered sugar on it.