After spending the day catching up with Natalie, including a walk on the seawall and a drive around Galveston, we got ready for the family party. The drive to Houston took a bit over an hour, and ended in some confusion when we realized we did not have the unit number for Lynn's residence. It was starting to rain, too. We called, got the final directions (we were in the correct section of the condos), and got into the house before the rain really got going.
All the family were there. We got introductions (I would have failed the quiz, since there were too many people to remember that fast!), and settled in to get to know folks, admire the 100-year-old Christmas tree, and wait for dinner.
Before long, dinner was ready. It was a buffet, with baked potatoes, barbeque meat, vegetables, etc. Everything was good. There was plenty of good conversation.
After dinner, there was a white-elephant gift exchange. A few people seemed destined to never get a gift--whatever they opened got taken by the next person. I was the first person to pick, so would also be last!
A power-outage complicated the evening a bit. A neighbor brought over a generator (kind of surprising that people in this type of community would have one, much less two generators, but I guess with the hurricanes, maybe not so surprising).
Dad and I left to drive back to Galveston in the rain--a very nice party and great to meet these relatives. Dad was the oldest person there (a couple of people were close in age, I think).
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