Hello!!!
Happy belated Easter. We hope all of you had a great holiday, and we were sorry we couldn't make it everywhere! For Easter this year, we decided to visit Nick and Cristol down in Texas. We hadn't seen them in almost a year and it was great to visit with them for the weekend!
We flew down to Dallas from St. Louis, and rented a car. The car rental started us off on the right foot. The car rental place ran out of compacts AND mid-size cars, so we got a nice big full-size one for the compact price of $47 for 4 days! Woo hoo!!! So we drove to Killeen Thursday night after flying.
After renting the car, we needed to drive 2 1/2 hours south to Killeen, which is next to Fort Hood (military base). The base is like a small city - and it's actually the SIZE of a small city! They have everything from a military type Wal-Mart to liquor store, grocery store and banks.
Friday was nice and relaxed. We had breakfast and waited for Nick to come home from work (he had to work a 1/2 day) and then we drove down to San Antonio. All of us decided that we would stay the night and get a cheap-o hotel room. When we got to San Antonio we did a lot of walking and experienced the Riverwalk. It was so beautiful! Cristol's camera was dying and we forgot ours, so these pictures came off of various websites:
Friday was beautiful - it was in the low 70's, just perfect for walking around. We stayed the night and were going to go back and see the Alamo Saturday morning but the weather was very cold and rainy so we stopped at a huge outlet mall on the way back and had fun shopping! Then we grabbed lunch at Bennigan's an Irish pub type chain, which was very good! It's sort of like Applebee's.
As we drove back to Killeen Saturday afternoon, the rain started to turn to sleet, and then to huge flakes of snow! Killeen got about 2-3 inches of snow by the time it ended, which is unheard of down there!!! All the kids in Nick and Cristol's neighborhood were outside playing and throwing snowballs and making snowmen and so excited about the snow.
We decided to be party poopers and stay inside! Cristol and I highlighted each other's hair and Nick and Noah watched a movie and talked for a while, which was great time to catch up... the girls and the guys. We stayed up late that night visiting and having fun.
Sunday we slept in, played Monopoly and then went to lunch at Olive Garden and watched a movie. So... it was a nice visit!!! We had a great time and it was very fun to see Nick and Cristol again! Hopefully we can see them again soon. We miss the dickens outta them!!!
Sunday night we drove back up to Dallas. The drive took forever because there was a lot of traffic, construction, an accident, you name it, we had it! So thanks to Noah's trusty GPS we bypassed about 30 minutes of awful traffic and took a smaller state highway. Whew...
When we checked into our hotel in Dallas, we definitely had a funny experience! The guy behind the counter was a funny little middle-eastern guy who was very eager to help us out and make sure every part of our stay was great. He needed some sort of print out from us because we booked our room online using Noah's hotel points, and both computers in the lobby had people at them so the front desk guy told us to just use his computer behind the front desk! After that (still not checked in), we were interrupted by one of the people at the computers in the lobby who was asking for roach spray. The front desk guy asked why he needed it, and the other guy told him there was a huge roach under the computer desk. The desk guy said (in his funny midde-eastern accent), "Oh it is just probably one of those water bugs." but the guy didn't believe him and kept asking for roach spray. Well in the mean time, the huge bug (which WAS a water bug) was creep-crawling down the hallway, so Noah and I went after it. After stepping on the thing 2-3 times, the bug finally didn't move anymore and the front desk guy was thanking Noah and I for killing it. And then he offered us a beer for killing the bug! hahahaha! We thought he was kidding, but the guy went in the back and got Noah 2 beers! And then he asked how many we wanted, and he brought me a glass of wine too! All for killing a bug... wow. :) I think I would stay at a Hampton Inn again! haha!
Our flight home this morning was pretty rough. We got to bed around 10:30/11pm last night (due to the traffic and front desk shinanagans) and had to get up at 4:30 to take showers, drop the rental car off and get to the airport. We were beat. And to boot, our bags didn't make the flight. So supposedly Southwest is going to have someone drop them off today at my office, which is fine.
Ta da... so there is our wonderful Easter weekend! We hope yours were great, and hope you have a great rest of the week!
Blessings, hugs and kisses...
Love,
Noah & Krista.
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