Instead of going to the lake this weekend, Spencer and I decided to stay in town and explore. Spencer being the big shot landman that he is got the extra shrimp from a shrimp boil earlier this spring so on Friday we stayed in and peeled and deveined shrimp...about six pounds of shrimp to be exact. It was disgusting. However, because of this fishy fiasco, we were able to eat shrimp all weekend which is nothing to complain about.
First Time Deveining Shrimp
Finished Product
I got so excited about this shrimp story that I forgot to mention that this weekend had a heat index of 106 degrees. I also forgot to mention that while sitting at home waiting for Spencer to get off work on Friday his air conditioner went out. Lovely. Luckily it was only out for about a day thanks to Spencer's plumbing skills but I do have to say that I considered buying a plane ticket back to Lubbock because Houston is no place to be without an air conditioner.
On Saturday, Spencer and I decided to be productive. We ate at a delish hole in the wall Mexican food restaurant down the street and then headed to the Museum of Natural Science to see the Faberge exhibit. For those of you who don't know Faberge was the jeweler to the Tsars and created all those fancy eggs among many other things.
After that exhibit, we walked over to the Butterfly Center to check out the thing that's all the buzz here in town, the "corpse flower". This monster of a flower grows four inches a day and when it blooms, smells like a rotting corpse, hence the name "corpse flower". Unfortunately, it still hadn't bloomed when we went so we didn't get to experience it in full effect-strangely disappointing. Despite my disappointment, we enjoyed our museum experience with all the other nerds of Houston.
Saturday ended with an afternoon/night at the local beer garden with our friends Meagan and Shaun and our other friends Blue Moon and Dos Equis.
Me and the Corpse Flower
Spencer was in shock
You could watch the butterflies come out of these cacoons
Sunday was brutal and Spencer MADE me help him refinish his deck. YUCKY. We still aren't done and I may "run some errands" for about 4 hours tonight while he finishes.
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