« on: February 25, 2002, 05:00:00 AM by Bear»
Well I guess it’s time for a follow-up. I can imagine most of you are wondering how Honey is adjusting so here it is….
At 1st I spent a lot of time just driving her around and introducing her to friends and family. The family appeared to take to her pretty good but then they have tapered off and haven’t said much since then. The “ex” still doesn’t know she’s here. The members of my church took to her very well but it was even much more than I expected. We had a party for her like we do most new members and had the largest turn out I have observed in my 20+ years of membership. My friends at the flea market liked Honey but we haven’t been back that way since the 1st week. We tried to look up some other Filipinas and went to visit Troy and Anne (of Mag-Anak) who has been here in the Baytown area for right at a year. JeffT’s girlfriend (also Mag-Anak) isn’t here yet but we are hoping soon because he lives only a few miles from us.
An interesting thing about the flea market though was we found some plaques that detailed what your name meant. My name Arthur means “Bear” in Celtic – who would have guessed that?
I have driven her all over the Houston area due to the cold weather including downtown, medical center, Galleria, Baytown, NASA/Clearlake, Galveston, Greenway, Greenspoint, Loop and Beltway, etc. She found Houston to be very beautiful and clean like I first reported. We went to the Zoo/Herman Park but since it was cold we didn’t really get to enjoy it much. Another weekend I brought her back to the Houston Museum of Natural Science. I do not think she thought dinosaurs really existed until she saw skeletons of a t-rex and brontosaurus. We got to see real Egyptian mummies and relics and sat through a presentation of the close in solar system and what the different planets looked like from their surface. We also went to an IMAX theatre (an 80 ft. movie screen where you sit a lot closer that a normal movie screen) and watched a documentary on what else? – Bears.
I took her to Galveston and we walked along the seawall and out on some of the jetties. But once again the weather was really too cold to enjoy it. Since it was too cold we skipped walking the Strand District (a restored old town area with lots of open markets) – I’ll take her there during the warmer weather and when they have “Dickens on the Strand” when everyone dresses up like their favorite Dickens character. We also skipped Mardi Gras. She loved riding the ferry but she was deathly afraid at first. But once out on the water she loved it.
We have been to most of the popular malls here in Houston but not near all of them – there are just too many. We also go to a lot of movies and she really likes the “love” seats that AMC movie theatres have. I am amazed that movies have changed so much for me. I can see a movie that I saw years ago and it’s all new for me now because I get to hear her views afterwards of what we saw. She liked “Kate and Leopold”, “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “Brotherhood of the Wolf”, “Snow Dogs” and “The Lord of the Rings”. Watching TV is amazing. She won’t even turn it on unless I am home to choose what we watch – this really blows me away!!! I usually end up spending hours explaining many of the things we watch. Her favorite TV show is Smallville (Superboy for those of you who do not read DC Comic books). I think her second favorite is Beethoven – the movie about the St. Bernard. I keep telling her that Houston isn’t a place to have a St. Bernard or Alaskan Huskie but that’s what she wants me to get her anyway. We have found a few Filipino shows on the International Channel but she really doesn’t care to watch even them.
I decided that my son’s hand-me-down Sunbird was not a good car for her so I bought her a new van. I let her choose from the vehicles I liked (Explorer Sports Track, Mustang, Eclipse, or Winstar) and she insisted on the mini-van. I was about to give up and get the Eclipse because we could not find a color she liked but finally they found one that was Sapphire Blue and she said that was what she wanted. It took 5 trips to the dealer to find one she liked. I tried to get her a Social Security number/TIN but it still hasn’t been delivered yet. When it gets here I’ll get her a learner’s permit and let her start driving.
I took her and Anne (Troy had to work) to the Rodeo at the Astrodome. She was really impressed with the fireworks, open ceremonies (the girls with flags riding in different formations) and afterwards we got to hear Brian McKnight sing in a mini-concert (she thinks I look better and sing better than him – no relation (hehehe)). I also got her to ride one of the small roller coasters. She was paranoid but enjoyed it. Then I pointed across the street to Astro World and the real roller coasters we’ll ride this summer. She would not let me buy the picture they took of her screaming her head off – shucks.
I took her to the San Jacinto Monument where Texas won its independence from Mexico and Santa Anna in March of 1836. It’s the tallest monument in the USA and Texas is one of 17 States that was a nation before it joined the USA. I intend to also take her to San Antonio – Alamo and down to Goliad (near Corpus Christi) where other battles for Texas independence occurred. She was also very impressed with the Battleship Texas parked right beside the monument. She bought some Texas cookbooks to learn how to make pecan pie. We were going to make the trip to Corpus or San Antonio this weekend but the cold weather is putting an end to that.
The hardest thing I have noticed is not the loneliness while I work - she finds lots of things to do on the computer, calling friends, chatting, texting excetera - besides the household chores. She even made a new Homepage for us. She seems saddest that she is not pregnant yet but I can only do so much in 2 months - hehehe.
Bear
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