I've posted some photos from the 4th of July and our recent trip to Texas to find our place to live! Enjoy...
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Ready and waiting for the Independence Day parade to begin on this HOT 90+ degree day
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These unicyclists were great!
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Our first steak ever cooked as a married couple :) This was our 4th of July celebration dinner with quinoa on the side. Have you tried quinoa? If not, you should try
this recipe (same one I used for this side). Amazing. Plus, quinoa has some seriously great health benefits! Read about it at that link.
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Ready for fireworks!
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The pretty sunset we watched as we waited
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And the finale
Here's our trip to Texas...It was fairly exhausting and had its stressful moments but successful in the end as we found a great place to live (with just few hours left to spare!). We can't move into our new place soon!
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A great seafood place Nick wanted to take me to; he came here last year and loved it
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SO much food (it IS the south!). Crawfish, catfish and shrimp - all breaded (not my typical meal, but we were living on the edge ;)) with fries. It was amazing however I could only finish about half :)
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And of course... southern sweet tea! It's more like sugar with a little bit of tea, but it tastes amazing and it had been about a year since we had any. It was great on a hot HUMID day!
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It rained every day we were there; at this point, we pulled over to wait it out as we were on our apartment tour day #1. It came down so hard, the streets around us had flash flooding.
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We took a photo to entertain ourselves/capture the moment while we waited for it to pass
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Our office (hotel) while we researched apartments. We loved this hotel after arriving at a sketchy-uncomfortable-feeling hotel initially. Luckily we (Nick) made a few changes for us to stay here. Thanks to Nick for that and thanks to his company for paying for our entire trip.
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Hello, Dallas!
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Another view of Dallas (part is covered by the fence) from Uptown, where we went Saturday night for a celebratory dinner after finding a place to live! Now we could relax and rest easier knowing our "work" for the trip was done.
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The decor in the window of the place we ate dinner that night, Grimaldi's, a New York style thin crust pizza place. For those of you in Des Moines, it reminded me of Centro's pizza... yum! It was great food and a fun atmosphere. It's in a few other bigger cities, and their menu said Frank Sinatra and Rudy Guiliani are fans of their pizzeria too :)
Overall it was a great trip and we were so relieved to come home after finding our new place.
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