Hello fellow travelers! I very much enjoyed having a week at home after such heavy, not-s0-fun travel for several consecutive weeks. My week was filled with running errands, resting, and feeling like I was getting my life together again. A great week led into a great weekend that ended up being way busier than we had planned. We had actually planned on being in Branson, MO for a leisure trip this weekend, but some of my work plans changed that just didn’t make it feasible anymore. I was a little relieved to have a few extra days at home, especially since we have a Branson trip coming up in December!
Friday Night
Friday night kicked off with one of our favorite downtown Dallas dinner spots before heading to the Dallas Stars home opener of the season! We went to Mesero for an early dinner which is a modern Mexican restaurant in the Victory Park area and right down the street from the American Airlines Center. I enjoyed their Nachos Conocidos with brisket and it’s the perfect portion size and served with what they call mesero slaw!
After dinner we walked down to the American Airlines Center in the heat dressed fully in our Jersey’s ready to cheer on our favorite team! We always get to the stadium very early because Aaron loves the watch the pre-game videos.
It was great to see a FULL arena for the first time since before the pandemic and hear the fans cheering loudly through the entire game. We won in the last 45 seconds of overtime with a winning score 3-2. It’s going to be a great season and I’m actually so happy that our plans changed and allowed us to be home for the game!
Saturday
We started off Saturday with an early morning walk around the lake while drinking coffee and planning out our day. We even noticed that our neighborhood has already started decorating the public areas for Christmas!
We spent most of the rest of the morning eating breakfast and hanging out together at the apartment knowing we were going to have a busy afternoon. Breakfast was my normal for the week which was toast with peanut butter and sliced banana.
This pretty much took us into lunch where I finished off the last of the Lentil Tortilla Soup I posted for Foodie Friday!
After lunch we got ready to head out for some house hunting! We have been renting since we got married and are ready to make the big leap of buying a home! We met up with our realtor to see a few properties we had found online. We saw some duds, as in did not match the pictures online, but we also found a house we LOVED! Unfortunately, the seller was asking for some waivers we weren’t comfortable with at this stage in house hunting, but it was great practice and we learned SO much! I always rolled my eyes when I heard adults talking about how stressful buying a house was, thinking they were exaggerating, but wow! There is so much to it and I’m already a little stressed!
We spent enough time out seeing houses that we weren’t going to make it to Saturday church on time so we picked up some take-out fajitas and spent the rest of the evening at home together.
I’m going to skip including Sunday in this post because my travel schedule is wonky this week and that will be my travel day to New York! See you all tomorrow!
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