Oh my, how have I let almost 3 months pass since my last post?!? That's just no good! I don't even know where to begin because it's been a busy and fun past few months. I think it's best just to dive right into our trip to the States that we just had.
Well, what a trip! It was 3 weeks of amazing family, friends, food and places! I can't even begin to describe what a great time Allan and I had. We headed to Los Angeles on November 12th for 5 days to visit my cousin Jen and her awesome husband Jim. From the moment we got to their house we were treated to loads of laughter, food, fun and love. It was so good to see the two of them and get to spend some quality time with them. We played loads of XBox kinnect bowling, went wine tasting at SIP and Malibu Wines, experienced all of Disneyland, had an amazing meal at Cafe Firenze in Moorpark, drove down Mulholland Drive, saw Christine and Chris and their adorable little boy Benjamin, did some sightseeing in Beverly Hills, and just had some really nice chill time.
Allan and I were driving to LAX to drop off our rental car the night before heading to Texas and I took a different freeway than before so when I exited for Century Blvd I didn't realise quite how far we were from the airport. I was just thinking that we need to fill up the tank with gas before getting to the rental car place, so I mentioned it to Allan not really paying attention to our surroundings. He turns to me and was basically like, 'You're kidding, right?' And then I looked around and saw what he meant, there were tons of sketchy looking characters hanging around the gas station and no cars were in sight getting gas. Oops! We were definitely in the hood, Inglewood/Westmont area. Umm it was scary at night and I won't be going that way to the airport again.
We arrived in Texas on Thursday November 17th, we drove straight from the airport in Austin to Shelly and John's in San Marcos. Since we had a super early morning flight we were able to get there at lunch time. We went to good ol' Mamacita's for a chimichanga and a margarita. After lunch it hit us just how tired we were and we decided to take a nap at around 5pm and what should have been an hour turned into 9 hours of sleep. We woke up at 2am and were up for a couple of hours and then went back to bed until 8 the next morning. Apparently our bodies were exhausted. After that we were all set with energy and ready to go. We had a lovely stay with Shelly and John and did a lot of fun stuff! I got to see Jen and her family over the weekend which was soooo lovely! Her girls are absolutely fabulous! We also got to visit with close family friends, Rhea and Jeff, that was lovely and they got BBQ from Fuschak's for us. We went to San Antonio on Monday with Shelly and John to see the Alamo, we had plans to walk around the riverwalk and see the market place but didn't get that far as it was so hot and humid that it was so uncomfortable to be outside. We all had sweaty backs and sweat moustaches from being outside for 15 minutes! We decided the best cure for the heat was to head to Chuy's to chow down on some delish Tex-Mex.
On Tuesday the 22nd of November Shane arrived from MN, we picked him up from the airport and headed to Hut's Hamburgers on West 6th Street. Seriously one of the best burgers ever! We all hung out that day and night which was awesome. It was fantastic to see Shane!!! On Wednesday a group of us went bowling at Sunset Lanes in San Marcos...there was a pretty awesome lunch + bowling deal. Yummy. I think you are getting the drift that we did a lot of eating. Oh and how can I forget the amazing breakfast tacos from the Palm Cafe...delish (I think that was on the first Friday we were in San Marvelous). Thursday the 24th was Thanksgiving, so Allan, Shane and I headed over to Jen's parents house for their amazing lunch. After lunch we headed up to the Fort Worth area to see my family.
Going up to Fort Worth and Possum Kingdom Lake was really great. It was so fun to see the family including my Dad, Grandpa, Aunt Joy, Uncle Russell, Uncle Mike and Aunt Judy. Loads of cousins and their families. It had been too long since I had seen everyone, especially everyone together. We definitely need to make sure to spend more time on our next visit up there.
I believe that I am going to stop here for today because this is really long and I should not bore you to death in one post. I will write more tomorrow...pics will follow shortly.
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