I've been having too much fun to take a break and post! My sincere apologies for the belated update on the weekend!
The last five days have been a whirlwind, in a I'm-so-excited-for-tomorrow-I-can't-fall-asleep kind of way.
I took a vacation day last Friday. It worked out perfectly since Dave's last day of school was Thursday. Dave and I headed down to New Braunfels for a quick anniversary trip. We floated the Comal River, which I highly recommend. The funniest part to me (it wasn't really funny at the time, well, it was to me but obviously not to Dave, so I did my best to stiffle a laugh) was when I got caught in a tide pool for about ten minutes while Dave floated ahead of me losing one of his flip-flops in the process. When I finally caught up to him (after I got out of the river and walked!), he said, "Where have you been?!" Uh, just chillin', you know, trying not to drown... Then later as we were walking through the gravel parking lot and Dave, sans shoes, "Oh sure, rub it in by walking so fast." Lol. Sorry, babe. I had a disposable underwater camera for that part of the trip, so we'll see what we get.
Lunch at Freebird's, where we once again lamented how we don't have one in Waco. I had the half bird on flour, no rice, beef, refried, mixed cheese, grilled peppers, guac, tomato, corn salsa, cilantro, and lime juice, if anyone is interested. It was uh-mazing.
That's right, that's the HALF bird.
Then hours of shopping at the outlets in San Marcos. I got a few things for my scrap room at Pottery Barn, a few sweaters, Dave got some polos, and the deal of the day... crocheted slippers from Victoria's Secret that were previously in the stores for $50 bucks. I paid $3.99. That's less than 8%, people!
And now, for my favorite part of the day (you know it has to do with food), a late dinner at The Gristmill in Gruene.
I started with the Grizzly Sangria served in a mason jar. Dave talked me down from ordering a quart (j/k, kind of). I don't know what makes it "grizzly", but it was gooooood.
Dave started with a margarita. Equally delicious.
I highly recommend the beef tenderloin salad, which is not as girly as it sounds. It's one of those things that you feel like you can't eat fast enough to inhale all of the goodness. The onion rings are out of this world, too. I know what you're thinking. Onion rings? Out of this world? Really?? YES.
We capped the night of with a stroll through Gruene and a little browsing.
We got lots of great gift ideas in this store. ; )
That concludes this edition of Anniversary Celebration Friday. Tomorrow will be tales from Saturday. And it's probably time for another scrapbooking page, so I'll add that to the docket for Friday.
I'm going to be a rebel and not even spell-check this post!
