Boxing Day Par-tay

Although Boxing Day is not a public holiday here in the United States we decided to introduce our American friends, and reacquaint non-American friends who have previously celebrating Boxing Day, with this public holiday celebrated in the UK. With as much traditional British boxing day fare as we could muster from Texas we partied away in weather that was more like a British summer's day than 26th December! In tune with our normal style there was LOTS of food including ham, chutney, pickled pears, Christmas cake, Christmas pudding (complete with flaming brandy), mince pies, shortbread, a yule log and more. Much fun was had explaining that the mince pies were indeed meat free and that the pickled pears did not contain any pickles!

Adam & Claire xxx

O Christmas Tree

Hope you have all had a very Happy Christmas. Apologies that this is a few days late but neither of us have been particularly well over Christmas so blogging had to take a back seat! Anyhow, we do hope you are all well and are enjoying the festivities.

Adam & Claire xxx

Adam & Claire xxx

Pre-Christmas Snow

The crazy Houston weather has been at it again...would you believe it but 10 days before Christmas we had snow here in Houston, Texas! Not quite a white Christmas but almost!

Adam & Claire xxx

Halloween

On 31 October we got the spirit of things by having a "Halloween" supper with sausages, mash, homemade baked beans and even Pumpkin Pie.



Our friend Ben carved the pumpkins.........

To create this amazing lantern......

Placed by our frontdoor they greeted the trick-or-treaters who enjoyed sweets, chocolate and Claire's Halloweeen cupcakes.

Adam & Claire xxx

Washington DC & Virginia

Update numero uno........


In October we took a trip to Washington DC and Virginia. We had a special reason for our fall trip north to meet with some old friends from Wiltshire, England; one of whom lives in Virginia. We spent 3 days in the capital city of the United States and 2 days in Virginia and enjoyed seeing so much of these beautiful places, made even more beautiful by the fantastic fall colours.



We saw so much....there are so many monuments in DC; too many to write about here, all unique and special in their own way surrounded by lovely green spaces through which we enjoyed walking.



We enjoyed exploring the Smithsonian museums, all free due to an amazing legacy by James Smithson who had never even travelled to the United States! They are superb myseums but there are so many we could have spent weeks exploring them. Of course we couldn't visit D.C. without a stroll past the White House - so much smaller than it looks in photographs or film and The Capitol which was a useful and fascinating lesson about the US government.

We explored Georgetown which was pretty, relaxed and with streets that reminded us of Europe. Finally we went to Arlington cemetery, the dreary, wet and grey day seeming most appropriate of the days to pay our respects. We walked miles and miles and miles.....


It was then onto beautiful Virginia to meet old friends for a special birthday party.

Adam & Claire xxx

"Postcard from Texas" blog editors are almost back....

Hello dear blog readers. You are probably thinking we have evaporated from planet earth or at least from "Postcard from Texas".......well almost. We have been mighty busy and mighty useless this Autumn and hence we have been useless at blogging. Sorry folks! However, this does mean we have lots to blog about so we are now on a mission to bring y'all uptodate a bit pronto (and before December disappears for another year)! Watch this space to read about fall fun in the United States.

Adam & Claire xxx