Home for the holidays 🎄

We are travelling this week and for the first time in a long time we don’t have to pack everything we own.  It feels nice.  Luxurious, even.  We are heading to New Orleans to watch the Steelers crush the Saints in the Superdome.  We love New Orleans and are already starting the list of places we will be eating during our few days there.  I haven’t been in the Superdome since I was a little girl and I saw NadiaComaneci in a gymnastics tournament.  I also saw the Barnumand Bailey Circus there as a kid.  But both of these visits were too many years ago to count and can never be repeated.  I am as excited to be in the Superdome again as I am to see my Steelers play.  God I hope we win. 

During our visit we are looking forward to meeting up with some SA friends who will be watching the game with us.  We love these guys and they are so fun on travel trips.  Not to mention they are die hard Steeler fans.  Like, seriously folks.  Die.  Hard.  We will also be meeting up with my (in)famous Uncle Huey for some dinner at the Port O’ Call.  It’s our tradition when were in town to chow down on some steaks and burgers whenever we are in the City. Uncle Huey has been eating there since the ‘60s.  Man, can you imagine if those walls could talk?  Well if they could, you might know why Uncle Huey is so (in)famous.

On Christmas eve we are taking short hop back to San Antonio to celebrate Christmas with Andy’s family.  Everybody will be there and it will be great to see everyone all together for the first time in many years. We even have a new addition to the family to meet.  It feels good and I am really looking forward to the eating, drinking and being merry.  Andy’s mom is a world class cook and that’s no lie.  I know we are in for some real treats.  We will be seeing friends we left behind in the exodus, albeit not so mass.   You know, even though we planned the move for 6 months before we actually took that one way flight, it still seems like we were so quick to go.  I guess compared to the 3 decades we lived in the city, the 6 month planning was just not so much.  It will be good to see friends.

We will be back in CDMX before we all kick off 2019.  Can you believe it?  2019.  Our current apartment is steps away from the El Angel  where we will be watching the fireworks and ringing in the new year.  We will be posting some pics from the trip so be sure to check out our photo journal by clicking here.  And if you want to keep up with our adventures, remember to subscribe.  Meanwhile, happy holidays to you and yours.  Make it the best, whatever that means to you.