This past week and weekend

Last week Adam went to work in Santa Ana, and I went with him. It was a mini vacay for me! I laid out by the pool, read a book, went to Fashion Valley, the Spectrum, and enjoyed Adam's company when he got home. 

We stayed at the Hampton Inn in Santa Ana

Their breakfast buffet is really good. I tried everything.

We had a pretty nice corner suite.

Adam usually has more work to do after work. He would take care of it after we went out to eat.

When Adam had to finish up work at the hotel, I would just relax and watch t.v.

Their beds are SO comfy!

 

I worked out a couple time at their small gym, and watched Dr. Oz in the process. I also went to the 24-hour fitness out there.

I enjoyed this very much!! It was probably the best thing about our room.

We had to get our Cafe Rio fix since we are moving in a few weeks. We went together on Monday night. I went back for lunch on Friday, before we left to catch our flights to Texas.

I was able to enjoy a free meal the second time I went. It was fun to have them sing to me.

I love thier pork salad. I got it twice while we were out there.

This Tres Leche cake was so sweet that it made my horchata taste like milk.

After dinner, we went and saw Knight and Day. We both enjoyed it.

This is probably my favorite restaurant. We went here on Tuesday night.

Avocado egg rolls. I would definitely recommend this appitizer!! Loved it!

My Shrimp Scampi was very good

Now THIS is what you come here for!!! I love their cheesecake. I have tried a lot of their cheesecakes, and my favorite is their White Chocolate Raspberry one. I decided to try Adam's peanut butter cup fudge ripple this time, and I enjoyed it very much. I still like the other one better. I am not a cake fan, otherwise I would have tried the red velvet one.

My husband is so handsome! Here we are waitin to eat at Lucille's bbq smokehouse (Wednesday night).

It was definitely worth waiting for! We didn't really wait that long, but still. Everything was delicious. Great sides: sweet potato fries and mac and cheese

For dessert, we went to Cold Stone. YUM! Love their mud pie mojo.

Thursday my family came up and we all went to Hunnington Beach. I was out shopping before we met at my apartment. I brought home a yummy treat

 

After dinner, we made smores and roasted some starburst.

 

 

 

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Friday, as soon as Adam got off work, we made our way to the Ontario airport. We almost missed our flights out to Texas b/c everything that could go wrong on a freeway went wrong (tons of cars broke down, and there were objects blocking the road such as brooms and what not). I hate sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, but it is what it is. There was no way around it. I flew first class so that helped make up for it. It was a pretty sweet experience. We got to Texas around midnight and it was 80 something degrees. Welcome to Texas!!

Saturday and Sunday, we did a lot of driving around in our sweet rental car. We looked at SO many different apartments. I had made a list of over 20 places to look at, and his sister Rachel showed us a few places she had found as well.

Out of all the places we looked at, we chose to live at Watervue. They have so much more to offer than most apartments. We could have gotten a much bigger apartment (Two bed, two bath, more sq feet) for the same price, but we want the social aspect that these apartments offer. They have an activites calendar each month. There is something going on every weekend, and mostly young married couples live here. They had a cardboard boat racing contest the weekend before last (see pic below) and the weekend we were there, they were having a volleyball contest. They give out prizes. The person who won the boat racing contest got $500 bucks. They liked the look of someone's boat, so that day they added an extra category: most creative. That person got $250. The staff cooks for the complex once a month (steak and what not). Its not like hot dogs and chips. They cook the good stuff. They have an indoor basketball court (which Adam is going to love), their own little gym (I will still go to 24-hour b/c their gyms are HUGE out there. Everything is bigger in Texas), they have their own Redbox type movie rental box (which they restock more often than redbox), a salt water pool, an Xbox room, and a game room. Plus, get this, you just leave your trash outside of your door and they pick it up for you. Pretty sweet trash servic! The walk in closet in our apartment is HUGE (the biggest one out of all the places we looked at). It's as big as our bathroom, practically. They have a dog park. I really want to get a dog, so that might come in handy someday. We can't wait to start enjoying this place!!! It's in a great location to. There is a Super Walmart and Super Target close by, as well as a ton of good places to eat at. The mall and gym isn't too far away either.

We went to Chef Point Cafe after we finished filling out the application for our FIRST apartment. We wanted to try this place out because Guy Fieri visited it on the t.v. show Diners Drive-Ins and Dives.  It is located inside a Conoco gas station. I guess the owner couldn't get approved for a restaurant loan in time, so he got a loan for this gas station, and put this fun little restaurant inside. Talk about an unusual place to open an upscale restaurant!

 It totally looks ghetto but don't let that fool you, b/c they make really good food in there! They offer lamb and duck, and all kinds of stuff you would find at a 5 star restaurant.

 Adam made me try fried green tomatoes. They were SO good, which I wasn't expecting.

 The small kitchen behind Adam

Adam's selection: a stuffed pork chop with crab cake on top of pasta

Note the gas station section was right behind me.

I went with the Monte Cristo Sandwich

Turkey, Ham, and Swiss on wheat, fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar. It was very good, especially when dipped in the jam.

Everyone raves about the bread pudding here, so we had to give it a try. It's smothered in hot cognac sauce, and voted the best of Fort Worth restaurants.  It was definitely different. We liked it. There are no raisins which was a plus for Adam. I am partial to mine, and we both still think that the cruise's bread pudding is the best we have ever had. This was very good though.

We went to Twisted Root with Rachel's family on Saturday. It was definitely a fun place. They make custom burgers and have homemade rootbeer and flavored rootbeer. I got a chipotle burger with avocado and cheese. Very delicious!