Has anyone mentioned that Madeline made All State choir? Oh, I thought so! Well, Shirley (other grandmother) and I drove down to San Antonio in person to take it all in!
Now on our last trip (to New York) we did something very embarrassing right off the bat. The hotel gave each of us a key to our room. We went upstairs, dropped our stuff, and headed off to Ruby Foo's with the fam for dinner. It was quite late when we got back to the hotel, and I'm sure you can guess what's coming. Yes, neither of us had our key with us. Here we were, trying to look youthful and cool, and we had to trek down on the first night and get new keys. So, on the way to San Antonio this past weekend, we resolved not to do anything that would make us appear, well...old.
It didn't work out. The morning after our arrival I was putting on my makeup and deciding that I would buy a small Keurig coffee maker to take on trips for hotels like this lousy Omni La Mansion Del Rio. (It is definitely NOT lousy.) I was dying for my coffee. Rob called and asked if he could bring us anything from McDonald's. Shirley and I both said "Coffee!" He said, "Haven't you made coffee in your coffee maker?" No, we hadn't because we didn't have a coffee maker in our room. Well, yes we did. We just hadn't found it. A cute 2-cup brewer slid out from a lovely cabinet.
We eagerly proceeded to get some coffee brewing. I was kind of a smart aleck about it since I had had the same coffee maker in a hotel before. I smartly showed Shirley where the little coffee packets went in the little tray, and she went to get the water. We had lovely black ceramic (inside and out) coffee mugs. Classy!
When the brewing stopped, I removed my cup and poured one of our two creamers into it. It looked so strange--like creamer in water in a black cup. It WAS creamer in water in a black cup. I had failed to reinsert the tray containing the coffee packets after showing Shirley how to do it! At least Shirley doesn't use creamer, so I had one for my first cup!
We had such a great time on both trips. We laugh at each other and with each other. We spend most of our time looking for stuff we brought but can't find. We talk about food and diets endlessly and then go eat whatever we want. We reminisce about our happy times and miss our guys. We just bask in the glow of our precious children and grandgirls. We thank God constantly for all He has done for us. We're two VBG's (that's Very Blessed Grannies.)
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