Sunday was the yearly Houston quilt festival, I’d never previously been, but I have to admit, I was curious!

Emily, Magz, little Eve and I all headed up to the quilt festival, whilst Col, Luke and Sam headed out to the firing range for Col’s first ever attempt at shooting a gun.

The quilts themselves are gorgeous, and enough to make anyone want to learn how to do it, though at $400+ a pop, it was way out of my price range!

Some of the quilts were seriously old, one was more than 100 years old – so old in fact, that they weren’t sure who made it.  It was a very interesting dander around the hall!

They even had a ‘Husbands lounge’ where the football lived! LOL! There were chairs and football, away from the throngs of many, many women at the quilt show! What a smart idea, eh?

We had fun, and I didn’t buy a single thing (other than lunch), we just had a nice time strolling around the George R Brown convention centre, looking at all the pretty quilts!

Col, on the other hand, was having a completely different Sunday afternoon!

He and ‘the lawds’ were out at the Memorial Shooting Centre for an afternoon of shooting.  Col tells me that it’s very intimidating when you’re handed a pile of paperwork and disclaimers, you’re about to use a deadly weapon.

Coming from Northern Ireland, guns have nothing but a negative connotation.  Guns are bad.  End of.  Living in Texas, guns have a slightly different connotation, to many, they are a hobby.  Col was curious to see whether he could break through a lifetime of being taught that guns are bad and to see if he could look at shooting as a hobby.

He tells me that he hasn’t broken through the barrier in his mind, the one that says guns aren’t a hobby, they’re bad news, but he did enjoy himself once he got going.  He’d go back.  As would I, I’m much more keen to learn to shoot than he is!

Later that night, Col and I decided to use one of our Groupons to go to the Studio Movie Grill and watch a movie – it was a busy day!