Jacob brought a new video game for he and Andrew to play, Andrew was quite excited!
Like last time (although it was a little later in the day this time), the boys decided to do a shot of tequila.
Andrew and I had gone to the grocery store early Saturday and bought a brisket to make for them. I have never tried brisket, and it was something Jacob and Jenny really wanted. It smelled SO GOOD while it was cooking. We had potatoes to go with it, of course. We got a thick and spicy honey barbecue sauce to go with it, and I have to say...it was a lot better than I thought it would be!
We stayed in last night, just relaxing. The night started out with a couple of games of Scene It: 2nd Edition (Jake and Jenny won both games, she was freakishly good!).
Afterwards, Andrew made strawberry daiquiris for Jenny and me. They went to get slushes to put alcohol in here at home for themselves.
Then we watched Tropic Thunder, although Andrew and I turned in early. Jake and Jenny finished the movie and thought it was very funny! Today we got up and got ready to go to a festival in Grapevine called "Main Street Days". It was an absolutely BEAUTIFUL day, it couldn't have been more perfect weather! There wasn't a whole lot to do but walk around and people-watch, but there were some neat things going on. There were people doing cool stuff on trampolines, kayak lessons, glass blowing, and a little BMX setup. We stopped to watch the bike guys for a little while.
We stopped at the midway before we left. And we saw it...the SAME RIDE that I busted my camera riding last time. You couldn't have paid me to get on it, but Jake and Andrew wanted to get on it. Andrew handed over his iPhone so nothing would happen to it, though, haha! I got a video that gets them riding it. It'll make you a bit dizzy, just a warning!
They made it, though, and walked out of there in a straight line! Andrew did say he had a headache, though.
On the way to the car, we stopped in a parking lot across the street to look at some cars in front of the British Emporium. There was even a Rolls Royce there!
We decided to stop by a local vineyard on the way home, Delaney Vineyard. I wasn't too keen on going, but they really wanted to, so I smiled and just decided it would make a great blog post. But I ended up having a really great time! Our guide was Shirley, a little old lady with a lot of spunk! She told us the history of the vineyard, then took us to look around at the 10 acres of grapes they have harvested outside.
Then we went inside, as Shirley explained the process of fermenting the wine and aging it in the barrels. When we walked into the 5200 square foot barrel room, I was absolutely blown away. Andrew and I both thought the room was beautiful, and would be perfect for, say...a wedding reception??
Andrew and Jacob had paid to do a wine tasting at the gorgeous Italian granite bar they had in the barrel room. They really liked the wine they tasted, we walked out of there with four bottles of wine!
We all really enjoyed ourselves, we had a great time!
We all kind of crashed a bit when we got back. Andrew and Jacob, of course, got in a couple of games of basketball with their new game, Jenny took a nap, and I sat here blogging this incredibly long blog about our wonderful weekend!!
Jenny has to fly back to DC tonight, but Jacob will be here until Tuesday night. Andrew is off from work the next two days, so they're going to get to spend a lot of time catching up (and playing a ton of basketball games, I'm sure!).
We really enjoyed the weekend, thank you Jacob and Jenny!!
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