Texas Day 2

Texas Vacation: Day 2

Yesterday, Texas had a high of 90 degrees! YIKES! A lot of people were complaining that it was way too hot for March. I agree, it was hot, but I was liking every minute of it because, well, I am just VISITING!

First thing we did was head over to Round Rock Doughnuts (Featured on Man vs. Food) and bought a dozen glazed doughnuts. Omg - amazing. We came back to the apt, ate our glorious food while catching up on The Big Bang Theory. We got Hurley (Ben's dog) ready and headed out to the dog park. It is funny - they have a small dog area (which Hurley had all to himself) and a large dog area and a dog run - for the larger dogs as well. It was so nice to sit outside!!

Let's see, then we headed to the outlet mall which is pretty much right in Ben's back yard. Ikea was next. It was really odd to see an Ikea right in the middle of Round Rock...I am used to it being HUGE and by other HUGE things. Not that this one wasn't huge, but still. We walked from room to room looking at the cool or weird ways they set things up. It makes me want to totally decorate a house again.

After the outlet mall and Ikea it was time for my first real sushi experience. It was really good! I ordered the California roll (which I had had before) and the Philadelphia roll. Ben had spicy tuna, yellow tail and I think a spicy salmon roll (? not quite sure on that last one). I tried his yellow tail and I really liked it! Yum! I had forgotten just how filling sushi is though wow. Haha- you'll like this...as I was "trying" to eat my sushi, the chopsticks business was giving me issues. The waitress came over and gave me "kid chopsticks," you know, the ones where they barely separate them for you, wad up the wrapper they come in, and rubber band them together so they are idiot-proof? Yeah, that. Great. Oh, and I guess my limit for sushi is about a roll and a piece. YUM.

After we had filled up on sushi, we headed over to Target to get a couple things, came back to the apt and watched the movie Flipped. Then we hung out, played some Xbox bowling and waited until we were going to meet his aunt and her friend at Applebees for drinks. That was a lot of fun. Ben and his aunt knew both of the bartenders, and they were awesome. Overall, it was a really fun time :) Ben got hungry, and probably tired of being picked on, so we went to grab some food at Freebird (a place kind of like Chipotle, only way cooler). I got chips and queso and omg - it was probably some of the best queso I have ever eaten. Ever. yummm.

After that, we just came back, hung out, watched City of Ember and "Talking Animals" trailers on You Tube for BBC. Too funny!! Then it was off to bed around 1, 1:30.

Today should be fun. We are headed to Austin to bum around and see what we can see there - go to the landscape garden and a couple of bars.

I have a feeling that the blog posts about here in Texas will mostly be about food...you have been warned. Pictures to follow.

-L