News + San Antonio

You have no idea how many times this blog has been on my mind lately.  More so that I feel like I've been neglecting it, even though it's only been a week since my last post.  Okay, so it was a week + 2 days.  A lot has been going on around casa de SpiderKate.   The biggest news is that I start working part time at my local yarn store!  I'm super excited for this new role and I'm not even sure that saying "super excited" really conveys how excited I am.  I started the last week in August, on the 29th actually, and will be working Wednesday, Thursday & Friday afternoons.  Since I haven't worked outside of the home since October 2010, it has been an adjustment back & doing all the things that I regularly do at home.  I'm happy to report that the transition is going smoothly and honestly I didn't expect anything less.

View of desk in our room complete with beta fish!

In other news, Mr. SpiderKate and I went away this past weekend to San Antonio.  We arrived on Thursday and left on Sunday.  My first impression of San Antonio was that it was hot.  Very hot.  I mean I know it's hot in TX because we live in Houston, but it was easily 10+ degrees hotter in San Antonio compared to Houston.  Wow.  We were putting on sunscreen like nobody's business and while we didn't get burned, we did get some sun.

Mission Conception

The first day (Thursday) we went to the Alamo and I learned that apparently I knew very little about the Alamo besides the basics.  Mr. SpiderKate and I opted to do the audio tour and while I think Mr. SpiderKate listened to each recording in perfect order, my listening was a bit more sporadic.  I started doing them in order, but then decided to skip around to what topics looked more interesting to me.  By the end I was ready to be done.  There were a lot of audio topics you could listen to.  I'm pretty sure I didn't listen to all of them.  That night we had some AWESOME Mexican food and margaritas for dinner.  Yum.

Part of Mission San Jose

The second day (Friday) we rented bikes and rode along the river to visit two of the missions within biking reach: Mission Conception & Mission San Jose.  Essentially this is all we did this day because it took up a good portion of the day.  We also got pretty tired of being out in the sun.  Nothing zaps your energy like being out in the sun in 100 degree temperatures.  At least being on the bike was a little cooler than just walking since you get a little bit of a breeze from biking.  I got some knitting done this day and cast off for the main portion of my fingerless gloves and started the thumb.

Cedar Shake fingerless gloves

On our last full day (Saturday) a "cold front" came through which dropped the temperatures to the high 90s and what a difference it made!!!!!!  I always forget how much a difference 10 degrees can make in hot weather until I experience it.  It was awesome.  I guess we should have looked at the weather because this would have been the day to do the biking.  Oh well.  Instead we took the bus out to the McNay Art Museum.  Everyone on the bus (including the driver) was really friendly with helping us out on where to get off for the museum.  The museum was awesome!  I would call it a  medium sized museum, which I think is the perfect size.  While I think that big museums are awesome, I tend to find them overwhelming.  Very overwhelming.  The McNay Art Museum was perfect sized, in my opinion.  Oh! Another awesome thing about this museum? The totally FREE audio tour available from  your cell phone.  Basically you call this number enter the exhibit number on the sign of whatever piece of artwork you are looking at and you get to hear a little blurb about it.  How cool is that??

Courtyard at McNay Art Museum & I'm dressed like a ninja

I am back logged on projects that I need to update here in the blog.  The big thing is that I finished up Mr. SpiderKate's socks.  My progress has slowed on my Rocky Coast Cardigan, but mostly because it's become too big to take out in public to knit on (though I'm almost done with the first sleeve).  I also have a scarf that is almost complete since it makes for good public knitting and of course I have the fingerless gloves.  I'll try to get a post about one of these knitting projects soon.