Our flight from Tulsa to Denver was delayed and then canceled last week. We busted out our cameras and started taking fun airport pictures. Near the end I ordered Matt over near the giant 52 and set the self timer.

We are cute. :)

Matt has agreed to eat out and to abstain from working out this week.  That helps a lot.  Sometimes I feel like our life revolves around his workout/eating routine.  It’s cool though because he’s become quite studly. Haha.  We aren’t going to go all Burger King for a week or anything but I foresee some guacamole in our not too distant future.  And maybe some Mexican Coke for me.  Yes, please!

After I got home from work tonight, I decided to clean and organize the kitchen.  It had been bothering me for awhile.  I hate things sitting all over the counters and stuff had accumulated.  Ugh!  I rearranged the contents of our cupboards, put the things on the counter in their new homes and then scrubbed everything.  It looks so much better!

I’m so glad that spring is finally here.  What a great time for a vacation!

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I’ll admit, I had to look up whether to capitalize “spring break” or not.  I could have pulled out our Little Brown Book and spent an hour looking but I Googled it instead and found a super easy site.  ComDor Editorial Style Guide is a reference for some of the geniuses at MIT.  I’ll also admit I had no idea that there is a difference between “awhile” and “a while”.  As in I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever used “awhile”.  I’m in serious need of a re-fresher course!

When I took all the pictures in Austin, I used Aperture priority.  Matt’s to the point where he’s shooting manually.  I’m working my way up to that… slowly. :) I need to keep shooting so that I can see which settings to use in different lighting conditions.

A lot of my pictures turn out the way they do on accident. I’d like to change that so the results were on purpose. That’s my current photography goal.

The first two pictures are outside of Starbucks on Congress Avenue.  We were about a block from the capitol building, which was pretty cool.  The third one is in Home Slice Pizza.  It’s our favorite pizza joint to-date.  Sooooo good.  It was also in a pretty neat area called SoCo.  The last picture was from Sushi Japon tonight.  We started going out for sushi every Wednesday a few weeks ago and didn’t even realize it was Wednesday today until after we got back to the hotel.  I guess we knew it was sushi time!  We had BBQ at Ironworks for lunch too but I didn’t bust out the camera… woops.

Tomorrow we’re going to Ikea and some outlet stores.  I’ve never been to an Ikea so I’m pretty excited to check it out.  Tomorrow evening we get to hear Trey Ratcliff speak.  After that we’ll be driving home through the night so that Matt can go to his Friday morning class and I can make it to work in the afternoon.  I wish we had more time but it’s been a lot of fun anyway.

So we pull into town, find our hotel and check-in.  As the guy was giving me the door cards, I asked if we had a non-smoking room and he told me that they had none left.  So that’s why the room was discounted online.  Sonuva.  I couldn’t very well argue with him so we walked up the stairs and were hit by a wave of stink from the smokers wing.  Danggit.  We walk into the room, it smells like a wet ashtray.  Eff Crowne Plaza.

Next, we go to the lounge.  Tonic water is flat… emmmm… yum.  Matt ordered a beer.  Also flat.  We are so loving this place right now.  Eff Crowne Plaza’s lounge.

We’re back in our room now and apparently the smoker in the adjoining room will be coughing up a lung all night.  The absurdity of it is making me laugh. I’m going to go put some Vics vapor rub under my nose and sleep.  Eff smokers.

Good night.

We’re also going to see the state capitol, walk around downtown and possibly go to the zoo.  Thanks to a couple of friends, we have many possible places to eat while we’re there. 

Neither of us have been to Austin before.  I’ve heard so many good things about it and am excited to check it out for a couple of days.  I’m looking forward to some good BBQ and Mexican food too!

Our hotel has wi-fi so I’m sure we’ll update while we’re there.

I wrote a post featuring the highlights of the previous week but I need to pull a couple of pictures off my memory card before I post it.  It’s on the list for tomorrow…

For now, I thought I’d put this picture up.  Last Friday Matt, Mary and I took the ferry to Coronado Island for a few hours.  Matt and I speed walked across the island so we could see the Hotel Del Coronado and the beach.  It was beautiful over there and definitely one of my favorite vacation moments.

I love the beach.  I loved how warm San Diego was.  Tonight, while I’m tucked away, under my layers of blankets, I’m hoping for beachy dreams.  I had one last night.  Here’s to recurring dreams!  Hehe.

I can’t wait to see my husband again.  Not having contact with him for nearly a week has been such a bummer!  In about 30 hours I’ll see him again.  I’m pretty emotional.  Might cry.  Everyone will be balling because their husbands, wives, sons and daughters have come home from months in Iraq and I’ll be balling because I’ve been without my husband for a week.  I probably shouldn’t tell anyone that.  Hehe.

I’ve decided to leave my computer at home.  Insane, I know.  I’ve never been without this puppy for more than a day either.  My camera is charged and ready to go though.  If I feel the urge to blog while we are there, I’ll use Matt’s computer.

So long, friends!