The Heights

We drove into "The Heights" section of downtown Houston today....... wonderful century-old town filled with antique shops, cafes, resale shops and "junk/junque" stores. The Heights is filled with block after block of vintage cottage-style homes. Wonderful just driving around and looking at the houses. It's been a while since we've been there, so it was fun to walk around the shops and look at all the antiques for sale. Believe it or not, I didn't buy a single thing. There were items that caught my eye, but I knew that if I brought something home, then I'd have to part with something. (One thing in, one thing out--- that's my rule.)

I guess I truly love everything that's in this house, because I wasn't willing to give up one "old" thing to bring in one "new" thing. There were so many porcelain pieces and pretty cups and saucers, and vintage furniture--- anything and everything you can imagine is in those shops of The Heights.

We had lunch at a little cafe called "Shade." We'd been there before, for brunch with our friends K and B, but that was last year and we hadn't been back there since. I ordered fillo-dough triangles filled with sauteed mushrooms and feta cheese..... they served it with sauted spinach and cous-cous.... delicious.

We didn't have dessert there... we were too full from lunch, and thought we'd look around the shops and then go back to "Shade" and split a dessert. We looked around for a couple of hours, though, and by the time we were done, the cafe had closed at 3:00. Plan B--- we drove to Hank's Ice Cream, a tiny shop in the neighborhood behind the AstroDome.

We've been to Hank's many times, and he has the most delicious homemade ice cream. And Hank is such a nice man who truly enjoys making and selling ice cream.... we love to go there. So that's what we did......... the best chocolate ice cream on the planet is at Hank's, without a doubt.


We heard from C's mom that her dad is home...... he drove in from Vegas and got home in time for dinner, just as he planned. We'll stop by there to say hello tomorrow....... his birthday was last Sunday, but C's mom is baking a cake for him and we'll all celebrate with them tomorrow evening. Nice to know that everything is back to "normal" at their house now.