Dallas Visit #3

Originally, we hadn't planned on me going out to Dallas again until Easter weekend, but last Monday we decided to buy me a plane ticket to go down this past weekend. After getting in Friday night, we went to Pei Wei which is one of my favorites. I love their pad thai. Then Saturday morning we drove down to San Antonio for a short visit.

First we went and tried to see the houses that Ryan's family had lived in/built...there was quite a few of them...however, they all now have guards at the entrance to the community and the guards wouldn't let us in, so that was a no go (later that evening we were able to get a family friend to tell the guard to let us in to look at one of the houses). The temple has gates, but no guard, so we went there and a walked around. It's a small temple with only like 15 sessions each week. Then we stopped at Longhorn Grill for some huge hamburgers...they were quite tasty.

We headed to downtown to see the Alamo and the Riverwalk. Who knew...the anniversary of the beginning of the Alamo just happened to be the Saturday we were there (Feb 23rd). They were having a celebration and re-inaction of the battle. Kinda interesting. We also got to walk the river walk in nice weather (oh, so much warmer than Utah) and did a little people watching. There were a lot of air force people in uniform and most were with family, so we think something was going on with that too, but we didn't ask.

We drove back up to Dallas Sunday after Sacrament meeting and stopped in Waco to visit/meet two of Ryan's friends from high school who are both at Baylor University (one's a recruiter and ones in graduate school). It was kinda funny because we had tried stopping by Diane's house in Dallas to visit, but when the guard tried calling their house, no one answered (we tried going two times). The guard kept asking Ryan if he had her cell phone number and Ryan's like nope. So then we're about 30 minutes outside of Waco and Ryan's phone rings...he looks down and says, "oh, Diane Thomas is calling," and answers the phone. Now, you are probably thinking....hmmmm...how does he know it's her if he doesn't have her phone number. Yeah, he definitely did have it stored in his phone the whole time, so all that awkwardness talking to the guards could have totally been avoided.
We spent Sunday night eating some yummy chocolate chip cookies that Aunt Cindy made and cookie dough ice cream and getting our trash kicked at Cranium. It was a fun trip full of good food and no exercise (notice the challenge to the right that I'm most definitely losing).