Beaumont Bound!

I really enjoyed my day yesterday.  Myself, my friend Richard and my son Mica went to Nederland, TX, which is about 1.5 hours north of Houston where we live, to see my Nephew, Niece and my Great-niece who live there.  Marques is a Youth Minister @ Golden Triangle Church on the Rock.  I am so very blessed to be so close to family.  My sister, Niece and Great-niece came down to Beaumont from Dallas and so we got to see everybody.  Then later that night we saw my other sister and Richard's brother when we got back into Houston.  We've been trying to make that happen for so long!

Maybe next time, hopefully soon, we can all get together.  Before I felt like I was walking on air when I saw my family, now I feel like I'm soaring!

We went to get some lunch, (we had just ate like 2 hours before we got there), my sister wanted fish... like homemade in someone's kitchen.  Nederland is a small town in southeast Texas, near the Gulf.  We didn't realize how close we were to the Gulf until we returned to Marques' house.  We tried to find a fish a/or seafood market and Richard was going to fry it for her.  Well my nieces, and my Great-niece Arianne went to the Chicken house to get some chicken, since my sister couldn't get a hold of me (my phone was on vibrate lol!), she went ahead, told them to get her some fish from there.  This is how I am, I don't like to get fish from the same place that serves chicken.  Every now & then you get chicken that tastes like fish from being introduced to the same oil the fish was fried in and vice versa.  But I *seem* to be the only person who feels that way about restaurants like that.  So, me and Rich get to Sartin's which is a seafood restaurant.  The food portions, at least mines were small, and Richards was a nice size.  I ordered stuffed Jalapeños which were stuffed with ooey gooey cheese, and breaded, then deep-fried.  I also had grilled shrimp, grilled chicken and tad bit of rice.i had like 5 pitiful looking shrimps and even more pitiful looking chicken strips of which there were three.  I also had the cole slaw, that was absolutely divine!!  I loved it, but I wouldn't pay $23 for it to have it again.  Richard had a nice side salad, with thickly sliced cucumbers, tomatoes and of course lots of lettuce.  I forget what else he had, oh.. he had 3-4 nice size pieces of catfish (fillets), fried.  I think he had fried shrimp, something else.  I really wouldn't say the prices are expensive because I see the same thing in Galveston, TX which is an island right outside of town, Clear Lake, Houston, Pearland, etc.

Maybe, if I can get my family down here we can go to NASA, to Kemah Boardwalk.  If we go to Kemah, Richard can fry Lisa some catfish right on the beach!  That'll be a real nice way to help encourage her new vegetarian diet.  She's 2 weeks strong so far.  I'm so proud of her.  I'm going to teach her to make the Russian salad we made at school last week.