Who watches the Watchmen?

We had a great weekend at the Dollar Casa! Saturday we saw Watchmen, Director’s Cut. It was only being shown at a few theaters across the nation, and we got it here. We still had to drive about 45 minutes for a 3 hour movie, but it was fun!

After that, we went to a friend’s birthday party in Dallas. We ate when we got there, but by the time we left, it was late and we were already hungry again. We stopped at Café Brazil for some good grub. (It’s kind of like an upscale Coram’s for all you PC folks.) It was goooooood!

This is T.H.E. Sandwich. It has tomato, ham and an egg. Delish!!

Sunday was actually nice weather after all the rain came through. It was a high of 90° which was much better than the triple digits we’ve been experiencing. We took the motorcycle out for an early lunch and then ran errands and did house chores.

I also finished knitting a new top. It looks funny in the picture because the top is ribbed and the bottom isn’t. When it’s on, the top stretches out and is fitted, then the bottom flares out a little. I’ve got to get buttons and then I’ll be able to get pictures of it on.

Oh boy it's HOT HOT HOT!

Greetings from Dallas!

Not much to report this week. We stayed indoors most of the weekend since it was so hot! Today marks the 15th day this season that temps have been in the triple digits. The average is 16 days a year, so I'd say it's a pretty safe bet we're going to exceed that.

Here's our weekend in pictures:

The biggest bug we've ever seen. You know what they say about Texas...

Doggie photo shoot learning how to use our new work camera.

Playing around with Garrett's 'stach. With a great mustache comes great responsibility. (And apparently some mascara, too!)

We also watching Bruno, which was interesting... as well as a few movies out of our DVD collection. Although, we couldn't make it through Blue Velvet. It was just too weird...

In other Dallas news, Jessica and Tony broke up! So sad!

Happy 4th!

We spent the long weekend with Mike and Julie in Austin and had a blast! For those of you that don’t know, they are some friends of ours from Florida that moved to Austin a few years before we moved to Dallas. It’s been so nice having some peeps out here, even if they are three hours away!

We drove down on Friday afternoon in time for dinner and watching Transformers at the IMAX Theater. We got there about an hour before the showing, and there was already a decent sized line. So we waited…

And waited…

And waited…

About 10 minutes before the movie was supposed to start, they finally let us in. After the attendant thanked us for coming and warned us about the motion sickness people had been experiencing, they started the movie…with no sound.

They finally got the sound working, but then it wasn’t synced up. They restarted it a few times with no luck. People were starting to get up to leave, so we did too. Right after we left, they cancelled the movie and sent everyone out for refunds. Luckily, we’d already gotten our refund and were spared the long, pissed off line everyone else had to wait in.

Saturday was pool time, then out for lunch and some shopping. The boys did their thing and went to Mike’s office and comic book store. (Mike works as a concept artist for Sony entertainment making video games. How cool is that!?) Julie and I headed out to IKEA, the happiest place on Earth. Awesome!!

That night, we went to a show at Esther’s Follies in downtown Austin. The show started out kind of slow for the guys, but it ended up being really good! The magician was amazing!

After that we listened to the fireworks on 6th Street (never actually saw them) and went to a few of the bars for fun.

After spending some time at Coyote Ugly (taking photos that will never see the light of day) we decided to call it a night...after getting our cards read, of course! Thanks for being DD Julie!!

Sunday was pool time again and some delish burgers grilled out by Mike with seriousness of the likes Garrett’s never seen in all of his years filming chef shows.

We had a FUN FUN FUN weekend and can’t wait to go back! Neither can Rowdy, whose new BFF is their cat, Fox.

Trucks & Chili's!

We got Garrett’s new truck last night!!


After spending about an hour and a half at the dealership to do five minutes worth of paperwork, we finally got to take it home. He got a 2004 Ford Explorer Sport Trac, which was exactly what he wanted, so he's happy!After that we were starving, so we ate dinner at a Chili’s near the dealership in North Richland Hills. It turns out it was the oldest existing Chili’s restaurant in the world! It was actually the 14th Chili’s ever built, but all the other ones before it have since been torn down.

Garrett, of course, had to ask the girl if they’re still using the original French fry oil. I don’t think she shared his sense of humor.


The building was pretty weird, though! We couldn’t really figure out which door to go in, so we just picked one, and went in it. Luckily it was the right one. The big canopy was over a door that said “To-Go Orders Only” so it was a little confusing. (Not to mention we were brain dead from waiting at the car dealership...)