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4 The Baytown Sun
Viewpoints
Wednesday
August 7, 2013
Mom and wife
enjoys weekend
retreat, surprises
ELESKA
AUBESPIN
On Mother's Day in May, I received a gift certificate
for a massage.
This weekend, I finally cashed it in.
That’s right.
On Aug. 3,, l had a well-deserved,
long-overdue, almost-thought-1-
wouldn’t-get-it massage.
Let me tell you that it was worth the
wait.
It actually all came about because
my husband and 1 celebrated our 10th
year wedding anniversary on July 16.
If you are like me - a working
mother of three girls - you can cer-
tainly understand how difficult it was for us married
folk to find celebjgjktfTtnVie alone.
Ok. let's just be frank. It has been nearly impossible
with all of the demands on us.
But alas, with babysitting services offered by my
mother and stepdad, Sylvester and 1 were finally free to
do something for ourselves without the kids.
,1 was a bit nervous at first.
There have been many limes that we’ve planned
events and trips, only to suffer the fate of last minute
cancellations because one of the kids got the flu, stom-
ach bug, fever, etc.
But this time, Friday was upon us, and we were on
our way to parental freedom.
I’m ashamed to admit this, but in our family we are
often last-minute planners.
With our history of having to cancel things because
of sickness, we just wait.
Sometimes that’s good. Sometimes it’s bad.
When it's summer time and everyone is on vacation,
locating a hotel on the beach is just not happening at
the last minute.
That’s bad.
But uncertainty can take you on a ride of spontaneity
and surprises. That’s good.
That’s how 1 ended up at a hotel in Kemah on Friday
night, partying with my hubby at a local bar where a
young reggae group was performing.
That was cool, especially since the band’s leader
gave me his own mixed reggae compact disc, and.
we met a nice lady who is a nurse during the day, but
apparently likes to toss back a couple of drinks at her
favorite local club on weekends.
Then we enjoyed lunch at a Kemah restaurant on
Saturday. It was way too hot outside, and I still can’t
understand why people take their children and do
things in the heat.
Personally, I always try to wait until evening when
the temperature cools off a bit.
Anyway, I decided that this was a good opportunity
to enjoy the massage my husband and kids promised
me as a Mother's Day gift.
While deciding where we would head next on our
trip, my husband realized he desperately needed one,
too. '
1 “Are you going to buy me a massage for our wed-
. ding anniversary?” he asked.
“Of course,” I chirped. “But not a couple’s massage.
You have to get one in a separate room,”
1 love quietness, darkness and no disturbances when
I’m getting massages. Me might fall asleep during his
massage and snore. Plus, I’d be worried about whether
he was enjoying his or not, thus not enjoying my own
massage.
Two rooms, please.
As always, Sylvester was charged with finding a
Houston hotel with spa services.
He’s my go-to guy when it comes to making arrange-
ments.
While there are many tasks I will gladly undertake,
making travel plans is something 1 hate to do.
He is the best at it anyway.
Once we arrived at the Houston hotel, it was great.
Plush bed. ... .....
Sitting area.
There were two televisions and a view of the pool
and outside bar.
Our massages were great, and the couple time we
spent was even better.
During our mini-staycation, we managed to enjoy
a few Houston spots, and, oddly enough, ended up
having dinner at the very place Sylvester proposed
marriage to me years ago.
Although the proposal was at a fancy steak restau-
rant in Florida, this same restaurant can be found in
Houston, too.
Didn’t 1 just mention pleasant surprises earlier?
This dinner was totally unplanned, and I had no idea
that particular restaurant was located near a Houston
hangout we were enjoying on Saturday night.
So we strolled over there and reminisced about our
proposal, our wedding in CanCun, Mexico, and our
lives as we know it today. .
Strange coincidence or fate?
It was nice and without the help of my parents, our
trip would have been extremely hard to do. So thanks
John and mommy for that.
And thanks, Sylvester, for being my husband.
We needed time together, and this past weekend, we
got it.
But for one of those hours, I also got time for myself.
Eleska Aubespin is a reporter at The Sun and a
mother of three girls. She can he reached at view-
points@haytownsun.com, Attention: Eleska Aubespin.
WCCE MURDER, CHEATING,
LYING, TOJ0S and SEX,
COMING RIGHT UP'
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Names are a’changin’
From now on, it’s Houston Meth-
odist San Jacinto Hospital instead
of San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
And that’s fine. The locals are
accustomed to name changes and
revisions, based on what’s going on
and what works best for Baytown.
When the hospital opened in
1948, we called it San Jacinto Me-
morial and later the name Method-
ist replaced Memorial.
With World War 11 still fresh on
our minds - it ended three years be-
fore the hospital opened - everyone
understood we were honoring our
war dead with the name “memori-
al.”
Memorial Stadium, built soon
after WWII, was named for the
same reason.
Years later the stadium was
renamed in honor of Pete Sultis, the
highly respected Gander coach and
athletic director. The stadium pre-
ceding that one had been named for
another popular coach, Roy Elms.
A number of street signs to be
remade after consolidation of the
Tri-Cities (Baytown, Pelly and
Goose Creek) as city, leaders tried
to eliminate duplications.
People still got confused, though,
because familiar old names are hard
to shake.
Main Street in old Baytown, for
example, became Harbor Drive, but
WANDA
ORTON
to this day, you may hear it called
“Old Main.”
Because of
Texas Avenue
in Goose Creek,
Texas Street in
Baytown be-
came Huggins
Street. That was
a mistake. I have
nothing against
the Huggins
family whose
home overlooked Black Duck Bay,
but really. All of the streets in that
vicinity were supposed to be named
after states, and Texas Street should
have been renamed thusly.
The street with triple names is an-
other head-scratcher as newcomers
must wonder why we call it Market
Street Road. I don’t know why; we
just do.
It’s also hard to explain why East
is West. What is known formally
as West Baytown (and informally
as Old Baytown) used to be East
Baytown, so called because the
subdivision developed generally
east of the Baytown Refinery. Docs
that make sense? Heck, I’m getting
more confused just writing about it.
East Baytown subdivision en-
compassed the streets named after
states, and the streets between Har-
bor and Airhart (Cherry. Pine, Mag-
nolia and Cypress) comprised the
original community of Baytown,
where the first houses sprang up
during construction of the refinery.
When voters approved the new'
city charter in ’48, following the
green light for consolidation in ‘47,
the name of Baytown prevailed.
This made sense, given the fact
that our primary industry was the
Baytown Refinery - plus, the name
had historical clout, dating to a bay-
front settlement in the mid-1800s.
Meanwhile a controversy brewed
over whether to change the school
district’s name from Goose Creek
to Baytown. To appease loyal
Goose Creekers whose feel-
ings were hurt when the new city
became Baytown - school trustees
decided to keep the name of Goose
Creek Independent School District.
By 1954 the word “consolidated”
was squeezed in, referring to the
merger of the Goose Creek and
Cedar Bayou districts.
Consolidation of the Tri-Cities in-
spired a number of business places
to switch to the name of Baytown,
including this newspaper. The
Baytown Sun had been The Daily
Sun and prior to that, the Goose
Creek Tribune.
Forerunner of the Tribune was
the Goose Creek Gasser, and aren't
we glad that name didn’t stick.
Wanda Orton is a retired man-
aging editor of The Sun. She can
he reached at vienpointsfa bay-
townsun.com, Attention: Wanda
Orton.
IN RESPONSE TO
RECENT TERRORIST
THREATS, I’VE ORDERED
OUR EMBASSIES TO
SHOW THE FLAG...
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is the 219th day
of 2013 and the 48th day
of summer.
TODAY’S HISTORY:
In 1789, the U.S. Depart-
ment of War was estab-
lished.
In 1942, the U.S. 1st
Marines Division landed
on the island of Guadal-
canal, marking the first
major American offen-
sive of World War II.
In 1964, Congress
passed the Gulf of Tonkin
resolution in response to
reported Vietnamese at-
tacks.
In 1998, U.S. embas-
sies in Tanzania and Ken-
ya were bombed.
TODAY’S BIRTH-
DAYS: Ralph Bunche
(1904-1971), activist/
Nobel laureate; Tobin
Bell (1942-), actor; Gar-
rison Keillor (1942- ),
writer/entertainer; Da-
vid Duchovny (1960- ),
actor; Harold Perrineau
(1963- ), actor; Michael
Shannon (1974- ), ac-
tor; Charlize Theron
(1975- ), actress; Sidney
Crosby (1987- ), hock-
ey player; Mike Trout
(1991 -), basebal 1 player.
TODAY’S FACT: In
1947, Norwegian an-
thropologist Thor Hey-
erdahl and his crew of
five crashed into a reef
at Raroia, near Tahiti,
aboard their balsa wood
raft, Kon-Tiki.
The 4,300-mile, 101-
day voyage from Peru
was undertaken to prove
that prehistoric South
Americans could have
colonized the Polynesian
Islands.
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“One reads books in or-
der to gain -the privilege
of living more than one
life. People who don’t
read are trapped in a mine
shaft, even if they think
the sun is shining.” - Gar-
rison Keillor
TODAY’S NUMBER:
1,368 - height (in ft.) of
the wire suspended be-
tween the World Trade
Center towers and walked
by French high-wire art-
ist Philippe Petit in 1974.
TODAY’S MOON:
Between new moon
(Aug. 6) and first quarter
moon (Aug. 14).
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