Girl's Weekend!

Last weekend, mom, Jenny and I went to Houston for a girl's weekend!  We have tried to do this the past 2 falls but mom and dad ended up being out of town for dad's work so it never worked out.  We took the opportunity now while we could!  

We stayed at our favorite...

The Magnolia Hotel in downtown Houston.  We loved it as usual!  They have free cookies and milk every night!

On Friday, we went to the underground place downtown where there are restaurants and shops (I don't know if it has an official name:)  We had always heard of it but never been there.  We were a little "underwhelmed"!  Don't know if we missed some of it but we didn't see a whole lot.  Then we went to the Galleria area to shop and ended the evening by eating at The Cheesecake Factory. We LOVED it! While we were at the Galleria, we went to Dylan's Candy Store. Michael and I had been to the one in NYC and this one was so precious too!  Every candy you can every imagine...right under one roof!  Fun atmosphere. The lady who started Dylan's is Dylan Lauren, the daughter of Ralph Lauren.

On Saturday, we started out at Rice Village shopping area.  Mom and Jenny went a little crazy buying stuff for Ryan...let's just say he definitely had the most bought for him!  There was a precious and VERY OVERPRICED maternity store that we enjoyed browsing through. Then we searched for a Super Target but could not find one.  Finally ended up at Memorial City Mall and did a little shopping. After that we were a little shopped out, so we went downtown to have dinner. We ended up here:

This was the coolest restaurant!  It is at Discovery Green park downtown.  The atmosphere was very New York :) The food was ok but the whole setting was worth the extra money just because it's fun!  Discovery Green is the neatest park! I would like to go back to spend a little time there.  They were having an outdoor movie the night we were there and they have lots of activities each week.  It's within walking distance of the hotel but it's quite a few blocks so I wouldn't do that until it's cool outside.  

We had a great weekend together!  I am always amazed that we live so close and don't get a lot of "quality" time together.  Everyone is so busy.  I am thankful we had this time together!  We'll have to make sure we do it again sooner rather than later!