Carrie and I headed down to Dallas, Texas a couple of weeks ago to visit our friend April who is well, stinking fantastic. We flew down Thursday night, arrived around 11:45pm, then stayed up talking until around 3am. Regrettably, this meant we didn’t actually have brunch on Friday, more like we got up in time for lunch. But hey, it was vacation and I almost never sleep in so it was GLORIOUS. Also, April had little dishes of candy set up for us so I was a little hyped up on sugar all weekend long.
We got up Friday morning, picked up Jojo and headed to the historic downtown trolley:

A & K on the trolley

C & J on the trolley
We had some delicious lunch, then wandered around and looked at little things in shops. Because I was (and still am) a little freaked out about the idea of wearing maternity clothes, we all went together to try them on. Here we are (just to clarify, I’m the only one who needs them, but who wouldn’t want to try on a fake prego belly with your friends?)

Joanna=not pregnant

Carrie=not pregnant

April = not pregnant

me in three months time!
We didn’t buy any of the clothes, but we had fun! THEN we went to Chuy’s for dinner!

Queso bar in the back of a cadillac? YES PLEASE!

Mmm. Queso!

Thanks for dinner!
We went back to Toby and Joanna’s that night where I saw one of the creepiest sculptures ever:
But more importantly, I FINALLY learned how to play thumper! YAY!
Saturday we went to a pretty sweet coffee shop to start out the day and then to HOBBY LOBBY where I found some great new autumn decorations (I LOVE autumn decorations!). All this fun was followed up with a delicious trip to Chik-fil-A. Oh Chik-fil-A how I wish you didn’t hate the great northwest and put in a restaurant in Redmond. We went back to April’s and watched a movie and she made us bars! Glorious bars! (I got to take some home and Jonathan agreed they were fantastic).
Saturday night we went to Plano and partook in the hot air balloon festival. It was great AND I tried fried pickles! They were excellent. Nice and salty and delicious.

Sunday we went to church with April and Toby and Joanna and then got to go to the mall and see the miniature basketball player!

and the ducks and turtles with the volcano style fountain:

We rounded out the afternoon with a trip to Red, Hot & Blue where we had barbecue and our own pitchers of sweet tea (everything’s bigger in Texas!)
We had a great trip to visit some wonderful friends! Thanks for hosting us April and Toby and Joanna I’m super glad we got to hang out with you too!