What a weekend!

As you all know, my 30^th Birthday was this past weekend.  Here is the play by play of what happened.

Thursday, it was a great day!  I went shopping at Old Navy, took a 2 hour nap!  Gotta love naps, they are quite possibly the best things ever and have become a hobby over the years!  Thursday night, Erik and I met Jackie and Matt at Chuy’s in Plano.  This Mexican food place has the best Salsa and Boom Boom sauce.  No, it is not something that your husband does in the privacy of his own bathroom.   If you are curious about Boom Boom sauce, go to Chuy’s and check it out.  It will change your life! We had a wonderful time laughing about silly things and enjoying “adult time”.  You see, it was their first time in a long time away from the kiddos.  Yes, we missed seeing the kids, but it was nice having adult conversation without constantly being interrupted as that is what all kids do best.  Friday morning also known as “My Birthday” or, “The Day that I ate so much, not sure how I did it”.  Hey, after all it is my birthday and I should be able to do what I want right? First, we went to good ole’ Whataburger and had breakfast.  Then we were on our merry way to The Dallas Zoo.  We pull up and hear Erik’s and my favorite song that we have sung several times over the past year.  “Welcome to the Dallas Zoo, Welcome to the Dallas Zoo”, yes we are children.  We first decide to go to the exhibit that was just renovated last year called “The Giants of the Savannah”.  This was by far the most interesting and most fun exhibit at The Dallas Zoo.  We should have saved this for the end, because of all its awesomeness.  It was early about 9:30 in the morning, so all the animals were out and hungry!  We go up to the Giraffes, my personal favorite and we see a booth where you pay $5 bucks to feed the giraffes.  How freakin cool is that?  I have never fed a giraffe before.  I look at Erik and we both think, Let’s do this!  We get our two pieces of Romaine lettuce each and head over to the balcony to feed the long necked beauties.  The Giraffe named ”Jade” eagerly comes up to us, all the others seemed afraid, but she was hungry and ready.  Erik snaps a pic of me feeding her.  She comes up and is so close, I can literally pet her on her head, but I didn’t want to scare her away, so I refrained.  She did however decide to wrap her black tongue around my hand to get the lettuce.  Seriously, the coolest thing ever!  Erik feeds her too and I take a pic.  We went around the zoo and checked out all the animals and left to go eat lunch!

 I thought it would be cool to take Erik to a place where he hasn’t been before.  We decided to go to S&D Oyster bar in Downtown Dallas.  We go in and it is a cute little place with Fried everything! Of course, that is what the south is known for.  Erik had some Fried Oysters and we split the Fried Shrimp meal then, followed by some of the best bread pudding I have ever had. 

Then, we decide to head back towards our end of town and stop to run a few errands.  I get the bright idea to go get my car washed and take it to a dealership and see how much they would give me for my car.  A little background…  I own a 2001 BMW 325ci.  I LOVE THIS CAR!  I bought it in Dec 2009.  I hadn’t had it long, but as you all know BMW’s are EXPENSIVE to work on.  I have put a ton of money into this jewel and she was nearing 124,000 miles.  We wanted to see if we could trade her in and get something while she was working and in good shape. We also wanted something that was good for our future plans to have a couple of rug rats running around.  Last time I checked 2 door vehicles don’t exactly scream practical for a big car seat in the back.   I had seen this Mitsubishi Outlander online the week before and wanted to check it out.  We pull up in the dealerships parking lot and I see it.  It is beautiful and has the wonderful New Car smell.  We test drive it and it is smoother than the BMW.  I can’t believe it.  I felt like I was sitting in a Lazy boy recliner and could totally see our family taking long road trips in this thing. We were a little concerned at first at how Angry the grill looked in the front.  Yes, it is different and I wanted something a little different than the rest of the standard crossovers.  We still fell in love with her and we decided to name her Angry Anna, because she looks so pissed off.  Hey, maybe people will decide to yield to me when I am exiting the highway like they are supposed to do in Texas.  We signed our life away and I really didn’t get to say goodbye to my beloved BMW, but as Kristy told me, sometimes it is better that way.  We now are the proud owners of a Mitsubishi Outlander and she is a Beauty.  After buying the car, we rushed home and got ready and went over to my grandmother’s house to celebrate mine and Erik’s birthday (his was the week before).  We had yummy food and homemade cake and ice cream.  We were exhausted, came home and passed out. 

Saturday, was a day to catch up on laundry and relax.  We watched some movies and I tried to mentally prepare myself for the next work week.  All in all, I had a WONDERFUL 30^th Birthday and it was the best one I have had in a long long time.  I owe my husband big time and he is the reason why it was so very special.  I enjoyed it so much that I didn‘t even have time to dwell on the fact that I turned 30.