Family!

Apparently I give just enough hints on my Facebook as to what I'm doing to be annoying, but not enough details to satiate my mother's appetite for information. She insists - no, DEMANDS! - more photos of Brandon's family. And here they are.

We went to the Alamo!

And hung out in the courtyard!

We went to a flea market!

There were silly hats!

And action figures!

... One of which, Brandon bought!

We went to Rudy's BBQ!

Brandon's sister arrived!
Then we went to Mi Tierra's downtown!

Reading the menu!

Dos-rita!

Mariachi bros!

Attempts at getting photos of the whole table!

Crazy decorations!

The whole gang!

Next week, on Texas blog: More Texas!

Dos-Ritas

Sometimes you just need to get out of the house. When this is the case, Christine is really good at convincing me I need to put on a dress and go have a drink with her. Surprisingly, the boys are often on board for this.
I must not dress up very often, because whenever I put on heels, or necklace, Christine gets all excited and starts taking pictures of me:

So. We all went out for Dos-Ritas. This is a margarita with a Dos Equis beer tipped upside down in it. No, I'm not kidding:

As you drink, you pull the beer out to let more of the beer glug into the margarita, and they mix. It sounds really strange, but it's actually quite delicious.

Brandon got a Blue-Moon-Rita,

And I got a sake-Rita. I was instructed by the waiter not to drive after drinking this, and I didn't. 

 

There was the usual bar food, which was delish. 

And by the end of the evening, I had had enough of my sake-rita that I felt pretty proud of my dress, too.  

Yyyyyyep.

BBQ By The Pool

We hung out by the pool this weekend, because it is ridiculously hot out. We barbecued burgers and had margaritas. It was a fun time. Photo dump!

 This is the best face ever.

Love you!

C'est La Vie - and Also Cha-Cha's

Bad News,

Thursday afternoon we tried to stop into Cafe Nyoshii for late lunch/early evening food. [See Previous post]

Didn't work.

Makes sense now why their telephone number seemed to not work when I rang them on Sunday.

- Anyway,
After some debate we just shot for some random new spot and ended up hitting a snazzy mexican food joint off Wurzbach [cha-chas.com] instead. Fajita plate, beer, flautas & an order of I-dont-recall-what-amanda's-new-colleague-got.

fajita's are my go-to dish.

Not seeing the regular dinner item, I'd initially tried to negotiate a half order of their 20usd fajita's by the pound.

The waitress, initially not understanding I was referencing the by-the-lb item, informed me instead that the plate was so small it wouldn't be worth splitting. I acquiesced. Guacamole & cuts of beef were good but the waitress unfortunately was right re: size of plate.

I am apparently spoiled by mexican joints thirteen hundred miles away that will give you a pile of food for half the expense. Joint was snazzy, though, and it's cool to have a nearby standby eatery that doesnt suck.

Amanda & Christine experienced no such similar crises as mine. 

May be worth coming back for a lunch special or Food Emergency, but I'll still be keeping an eye out for 'the fajita-spot. Some research may be in order, though i think Good barbecue comes first on the eatery-exploring list.

Margaritas

My favorite drink is a vodka martini, dry and dirty. But it's not exactly a summer drink. Most people drink margaritas in the summer. Also, especially because San Antonio is a mainly Mexican city (culturally, I mean) it's a popular drink here. So, Brandon and I decided to embrace this.

Our apartment complex, like most complexes around here, has a pool and a couple barbecues. Food is allowed near the pool, but glass containers aren't. Brandon's first immediate concern upon hearing this rule: We had to buy plastic margarita glasses.

So, we hit up the goodwill.

If we were smart bloggers who plan ahead, we might have gotten a photo of an actual margarita.

We got 4 margarita glasses, a package of martini glasses and a package of wine glasses (all plastic, of course). The green glass is for our toothbrushes, the white bowl with blue handles is to go by the door, for our keys and spare change. The white dish is a soap dish for the bathroom.

We had Christine - a girl from my program at school - over for barbecue and margaritas by the pool yesterday, and we all had a fun, relaxing time. We had never made margaritas before, but they turned out nicely (frankly, I think it's a hard drink to mess up). And I have to say, drinking by the pool is just as luxurious as I had imagined it to be. ^_^