Texas for a third time:)

So I went to Texas again to visit Chris and Jen:) There is so much to do in Austin that they continue to find new, awesome things for us to do when I visit. This time, right after they picked me up from the airport, we went to The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. This place is so hard to describe because it is sooo unique. I've never been anywhere like it, let alone heard of anywhere like it. It is a movie theater that serves dinner and alcohol! There is a long table bar thingy that runs the length of each row in the theater and on the bar there are menus and paper and pencils to write your order down. You stick your order in between a metal post on the table and a waiter swoops in and places your order. You can order as much as you want throughout the movie! I got fried pickles (!!!) and a salad the size of Texas. Ha! It was all delicious. Not to mention the movie was in 3D and was awesome too. The waiters basically crawl across the floor as to not interrupt your viewing of the movie. It is definitely a different and fun thing to do. I wonder how I will go to regular movies now:)

Jen and I also got massages while I was there. I had never been to Massage Envy before, but it was nice. I got a regular hour-long swedish massage and because Jen is in her second trimester, she was able to get a prenatal massage!

I also had to take an Accounting exam while I was there because my teacher was a douche bag and offered to "work with those that had conflicts" but when I contacted him he asked me why I wasting his time. Soooo I told him to eff himself and took it in Texas instead of dropping the class as he suggested (!). I got a 93 on the exam and a 92 in the class for the semester. How do you like them apples, nasty-angry-professor-man?

Oh, and I also made dinner for Chris and Jen on my last night to thank them for having me again:) I made my favorite Garlic Chicken and Potatoes. It's super easy and, if I do say so myself, frickin delicious. It was overall a super relaxing trip and the flights weren't too much of a stain:) I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited to also know now that Jen is having a little girl!!! I predicted this, so I am extra excited. I have already purchased numerous outfits and would dress my dogs in them if I didn't think it would scar them for life. Haha, j/k, but I can't wait to see the little lady in these outfits! Until next time...

Tejas, te quiero

Jen and Chris have been in Tejas for a month. I've been twice already:) Oops! But I miss them sooo much! So we flew with buddy passes this time thanks to my sis. A much better experience than that stain of an airline whose name I don't even want to say. We had direct flights each way because I won't even consider connections after that last shit show. We didn't think we would get on our flight TO Texas on Wednesday night and I was sad.

But then we made it on! Yay! So we were on our way to Austin. We got there around 11pm on Wednesday evening so there wasn't much to do that day, we just got back to their house, played with pups, and went to bed! On Thursday we went to the Domain which I am OBSESSED with. I got some very much needed mac makeup, we ate lunch, Mike got a hat, and we were off searching for my perfect yet expensive professional hair dryer. Ha. I'm sure I drove everyone (Jen, Mike and Davis) crazy talking about it, but HOLY SHIT did it work and make such a difference! 

My hair is seriously almost better and smoother with JUST using this dryer and NO straightener. I had a hard time believing it myself. I kept walking into the den and asking Jen how it looked. She probably thought (yet again) this bitch is cray. Needless to say I was pumped. Oh, and also during the day while waiting for Chris to get home, we went out into the back yard to see Jen's GORGEOUS "knock out" (seriously, that's what they're called) roses. OMG. I die. See for yourself:

After Chris got home from work we went downtown and ate at this really cool Mexican place on 6th street. It was yummy.

Friday we wanted to try to go back to the lake since Jen and Davis had such a good time there earlier in the week. The only place they could find to lay out was a really rocky place, so we tried to find somewhere else. We thought we had, but we showed up and because the lake is so dried up from the drought, there was no sand or even water nearby. Just enough water to dock the boats in... So we were back to square one. The boys made it pretty clear they wanted to get back to play the PS3 so after lunch at McAllisters and a failed trip to the lake, we went back to the casa. I finally got to use my phenom hair dryer and we went to a DELISH steakhouse when Chris got home from work. It was called Saltgrass and once it again the food was so good. I literally haven't had one meal in Austin that wasn't fantastic. Afterwards we wanted some fun time so we went to Dave and Busters! I haven't been there in probably 5 or 6 years! It was fun. I played skee ball:) The below cup is from McDonald's on the way home- Texas is so much better in lit everyday, they even customize their to go cups!

Saturday was our last day:( Our flight was at 7am on Sunday and we had to be up at 4:15am. Good god have mercy. So we had to fit everything else we wanted to do in to this last day. And we did! We started at the Alamo in San Antonio. It was awesome. I got my dad this shirt:

Next, we continued on to Sea World. It was soooooo overcrowded it almost made it a little un-enjoyable but then there were PENGUINS! Obv that made me thrilled.

Finally, and probably my most favorite part of Texas, we went to the Salt Lick- the ORIGINAL. OMG I love that place. People bring their own coolers and lit have a cook out style hang out right in the front yard of this restaurant while they wait for their tables to be ready. They have a small wooden stage for live music (which was of course phenom) and there are all these little strung lights everywhere, a wine cellar because the whole place is surrounded by a vineyard, picnic tables, it goes on and on. Basically I can't say enough so just see pics:

In conclusion, I love Texas. Mike and I can't wait to go back and do the hundred other awesome things there are to do there!!!

AUSTIN!!

I am so pumped to go see Jen (and Chris and River and Hannah) in Austin, TX this weekend. I have been googling Austin and all it's awesomeness to see what we can do while I'm there (aside from home decor) and also while Mike and I are there again in April:)

I found this site http://365thingsaustin.com/ and thought I'd show a few of the more awesome looking ones on here. Can't wait!!