Please email me privately if you would like to hear the details of my daughter's quincea~nera ( a.k.a. CavePearl ).
I am only posting this hear, as I have not other way to get the story out to my friends, and I had invited a few cavers to attend. Below is a short summary ( hit delete button now ) CavePearl's Mother ( herein, CPM ), planned most of the event, and I was just along for the ride, patching problems in the background. The police had to come and shut the party down at 1:30 a.m. this morning. It was moved from the venue ( the neighborhood clubhouse ) back to CPM's house where it continued on as Mexican slumber-party for about 30 of my in-laws from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Their caravan is southbound now on Hwy. 59 heading back to Mexico. The party was quite extravagant and my mother-in-law now thinks I am an angel. CPM is happy that I rescued the party from an imminent disaster of lack of food and cold beverage. The Locklear clan is now northbound on I-45 for Midlothian /Mansfield. And my mom and her husband's family ( Tomlinson clan ) are back home near Cypress and The Woodlands. And I just got back to Houston, after staying in a hotel nearly two days near Sienna Plantation ( party was 7 miles southwest of Arcola ). My Toyota Sequoia almost paid for itself during this event. CavePearl fainted during the photo-session. I had to eat dinner next to my very estranged-ex-sister in-law, ( who had once assaulted me with an old telephone. ) CPM's boss and her boss' husband had dinner together for the first time in several years. My mom and biological-father were in the same room for only the 3rd time since 1972. Having him there was like having a sack of rocks tied to my leg and a scorpion in my pants. All 140 guest showed up with no food or beverage, but over a dozen friends of CPM slaved away on various task, that would have cost us thousands of dollars had we had to hire someone to do all that. I can only guess we got it done for under $ 3,000, ( not including what all the 140 guest spent on travel expenses ) The venue was a new elegant building that was spacious, and very comfortable, which encouraged a lot of people to stay and socialize. I was too doing party-task for the past 24 hours to take it all in and relax. The DJ was good ( teenage latino music ), and people danced for at least 4 hours, mostly the teenagers. But my 84 year old mother-in-law, and my 72 year old mom, danced once, as did many of the adult couples. [ Sidenote: 100% of my side of the family spends hours a day watching Foxnews, so their first quincean~era was a huge shock to their ideology about the direction American culture is heading in. ] A thousand photos and a hundred videos were taken, as if some royal person from an aristocratic family had just married. Party tip / lesson learned: Someone bring a sack of pita chips. I will likely have to skip TCR. See you all in 2020.
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