Learning to be a Rebel...or at least how to use one: Shopping

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Friday, February 1, 2013

January Photo-a-Day Part II

Day 16: Two Things

Blue Baker for dinner then The Lion King - AMAZING!

Day 17: Ready

Ready to move!

Day 18: Shadow

Not exactly a shadow but I had such a hard time getting this pic because of the glare from the window! It's too cute not to share!

Day 19: Delicious

Yummy frozen Arbor Mist drink!

Day 20: Something You Saw

Pretty Sky

Day 21: What You Do
When you have no cable/internet?? Relax in bed with the husband & the dogs and watch The Love Boat!! Makes us want to go on a cruise :)

Day 22: Corner
Corner of the office where the dogs sleep while I work :)

Day 23: Electric
Our "electric" cabinet in the kitchen

Day 24: Stripes
Apparently I like blue striped shirts!

Day 25: Landscape
Loving the new landscaping in our backyard - can't wait to see what it looks like in spring and see what Justin adds :)

Day 26: Together
Justin and I had a whole day together of shopping for the new house and ended with a date night at Saltgrass...perfect!

Day 27: Sun
Pretty sun through the clouds

Day 28: Through
We are ready to be THROUGH with this faucet thing!

Day 29: Grow
Can't wait to see our trees grow & bloom this spring!

Day 30: Down
Winding down with some tea after a crazy/stressful day

Day 31: Yourself
Myself - the night before I'm officially a landlord :)

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

2nd Anniversary: Fredericksburg, Texas

I can't believe it but Justin and I have been married for 2 years today!! In a way it feels like forever ago but I remember all the details from that perfect day like it was yesterday. I guess since we've been together for 6 years that's why it feels like longer :) Justin and I love to travel and go on a lot of vacations but we rarely ever just RELAX. Last year for our 1st anniversary we went to Travaasa...a beautiful resort on Lake Travis. This year I wanted to do something equally relaxing and neither of us have been to Fredericksburg (I went for the day when I was like 11 but don't remember...shocking I know) so that's where we went!

We left Austin around 10am and after a Starbucks & gas pit stop we were on our way. The drive was actually really enjoyable...pretty hill country views and jamming out to some music! I had the A&M game feed up on my phone so we followed it until we got to Fredericksburg. We ate lunch at Peach Tree...it was SO good. Thanks for the recommendation friends :)

After lunch we walked up and down Main Street and did lots of Christmas shopping. We really enjoyed the furniture/home furnishing shops drooling over the gorgeous furniture we have no room for...I told Justin when we move we need to come to Fredericksburg with a U-haul because there would be too much furniture we would want!

Super cool wine chiller...we wanted to get it for my mom until we saw it was $250 :(

In the middle of our shopping we stopped at Clear River and shared a Mexican Vanilla ice cream....um can you say delicious??

We stayed at the new Holiday Inn Express...it was SO NICE! Definitely the nicest Holiday Inn Express I've ever seen! Not sure why anyone would need this but we had TWO big screen TVs in our room! haha

Pretty pool with a lazy river and 2 water slides....too bad the pool was FREEZING!

Waterfall, Slide & Spa

After we walked all over downtown we headed over to our hotel and checked in. It was too early to go to dinner so we decided to try the pool/hot tub. I put my foot in the pool and it was COLD...which would explain why there were only 2 people in it...2 crazy little kids! So we went in the HOT tub. It felt good on my sore feet!

After the hot tub we decided it was dinner time so we went back to downtown and had it narrowed down to 3 restaurants. We ended up choosing Silver Creek and oh my, what a good decision! They had live music and the food was amazing! Justin inhaled his chicken fried steak and I had a Santa Fe Steak salad that was so so good. We split a piece of Chocolate Cake for dinner and somehow I also squeezed in a Fredericksburg Peach Margarita...MMM.

We walked around Main Street after dinner to walk some of that food off. Pretty much all of the stores were closed but we did find an open store that had lots of random "stuff"." They had LOTS of candy - old school stuff and new stuff. We bought my mom a Sky Bar...her favorite candy bar that you can usually only get in New England! After we went back to the hotel and just relaxed.

Only picture of us from the day :)

Sunday morning we were up at 7 of course so we had breakfast at the hotel and got on the road and were home by 10. We are not ones to hang around anywhere on Sundays...we like to get home!

What a great anniversary weekend! We plan to have a low-key dinner at home tonight and try to relax since that rarely happens during the week (and who are we kidding...that rarely happens on the weekends either)! As much as I love little weekend getaways I am SO ready for our next vacation!! Only 5 weeks away!

And one more picture...one of my favorites from our wedding!

Monday, June 11, 2012

Alaska: Juneau

Itinerary

May 18-21 Anchorage

May 21 Board Cruise in Whittier

May 22 Cruise Yakutat Bay | Hubbard Glacier

May 23 Cruise Glacier Bay

May 24 Skagway

May 25 Juneau

May 26 Ketchikan

May 27 Cruise Inside Passage

May 28-29 Vancouver

In Juneau we had a whitewater rafting excursion booked but when we got off the ship we found out it was cancelled because not enough snow had melted and the water wasn't moving fast enough. We were disappointed but there are so many things to do in Juneau we decided to pick something else. We decided on a city tour and a trip out to Mendenhall Glacier. The city tour was about 45 minutes long and our tour guide was very knowledgeable! We had one stop to check out a vantage point where we could take pictures of our ship across the bay. When we got back to the city tour we hopped on a bus that took us out to Mendenhall Glacier. It was a cloudy day but no rain so we couldn't complain! The glacier was really neat (I am fascinated by them!) and we walked to the edge of the water to get some pictures. There was also a beautiful waterfall that you could hike to. We saw an eagle that was perched in a tree! After the glacier, we headed back into town and stopped to get a drink at the Red Dog Saloon (keep in mind it was only 10:30am!) but everyone but Justin and I had time to kill before their salmon bake. After drinks we parted ways and my parents, Mark & Diana, and Keith & Allison went to their salmon bake and Justin and I walked around the town and shopped and had a great time!