Saturday morning in Brenham

This morning we got up and got moving early. There's a new bakery that just opened downtown that we've been wanting to try, so we decided to go for breakfast.

Walking into the old building, the first thing that you notice is that it smells awesome. The decorations are very well done in a vintage style that really fits the old building.




We ordered sausage and cheese kolaches and muffins. To out surprise, the sausage inside was pan sausage instead of the link-type sausage you find in most doughnut shops. It also had real cheddar cheese inside, and they had pepper jack available. It's a little pricey compared to a doughnut shop or grocery store, but I think it's worth it in quality.




We're definitely going to make the new bakery a part of our routine. The cookies and cakes looked amazing. And they serve Blue Bell ice cream, too (which I think might be a law in Brenham).

The next time you're in Brenham, be sure to head downtown (a block off the square, near the Longhorn steak house) and try the Brenham Olde Town bakery. It's got the Pharaon seal of approval!

Gavin and Kayci Go To Sonic

Yesterday evening the Clarkson kids stayed over with us. We didn't know what to do for the evening because it was kind of a gloomy-looking day in Brenham and it was about to get dark. We talked about going to a movie, but there wasn't really anything playing. We talked about arts and crafts, but not everyone wanted to do that. We talked about putt-putt golf, but that and dinner would've been pretty expensive (because you can't play putt putt golf and not play games afterward). So we decided to make a movie...

We chose some random locations in Brenham and wrote them on strips of paper. Each kid got to choose one strip of paper. Each location that was chosen was someplace we HAD to use in our movie. They chose Sonic, the Stone Mansion, downtown and the hospital. We went to dinner at CiCis and talked about what we wanted our little movie to be about. There were lots of ideas - all of Gavin's involved the characters having huge throbbing mutant heads - but we ended up deciding to do a movie about Noble crawling away and all of us going lots of places looking for him.

But Noble was fussy and tired. Movie stars are like that sometimes.

So instead we made up a story about Kayci and Gavin sneaking out of the house and going around town and ending up at Sonic. We shot it in about three hours, and I think everyone had a lot of fun doing it. We pretty much made up the dialog as we went. Kristi was really great at throwing out little kernels of ideas that ended up becoming the new plot of the movie. Keely and Reagan actually came up with most of the dialog. It was a lot of fun on Saturday night in Brenham, Texas. And the best part is that we shot the entire thing for $2.47 - the cost of two ice cream cones.

Here is the result of our evening:


(If the movie doesn't play in your e-mail, watch it on the blog at http://ipharaon.blogspot.com/