Seaside

Dave and I vacationed in Seaside Florida for a few days before my family came down to Destin and the family vacay started. It was relaxing, fun and peaceful, just what the beach is all about.

If you've never heard of Seaside, Florida you might recognize the town from the movie The Truman Show. It's a very picturesque little town.

If you follow me on Instagram, I apologize, you've already seen a few of these. If you don't - what are you waiting for?? I Instagram WAY more than I blog these days! (Username: TineBaugh)
 

Our cute little cottage aptly named: Dreamboat

 Night 1:

Beer and Wine to go from Modica Market and Dave got to carry my suitcase up that spiral staircase. :) We had a casual dinner at Bud & Alley's Pizza Bar and relaxed in Dreamboat watching Step Brothers.

Our first full beach day - it was overcast for a while but it cleared up. I got a lot of reading done this day and that's about it cause that's how I roll at the beach.

We got cleaned up for a sunset dinner at Bud & Alley's rooftop deck. (oh yeah self timer pic!)

Our sunset dinner turned into sunset cocktails and an appetizer... the dinner prices were a little too high for our 'gotta buy a new car' budget. (who am I kidding - $34 for a crab cake is too high for our budget. period.)

The drinks were good though! And the view was awesome!

 

 So in lieu of spending our down payment on a crab cake we decided to do a food crawl through Seaside! It was the best idea I've had in a while. 

**funnel cake fries and fried pickles** **shrimp cocktail** **3 cheese grilled cheese**

**pulled pork sliders** **Pickles** **food truck lane**

we like long walks on the beach

 the view from our balcony

On our last night, my family came to meet us for dinner at the Taco bar!

Seaside was wonderful but we spent the rest of the vacation in Destin with the fam and had a great time as well. I'll bore you with those pictures later.

Off to San Diego!!

 

We're off to San Diego for a week! Going to visit Dave's fabulous sister! Also on the agenda: the zoo, duh. Padre's game. Beach time. a real Speakeasy and lots of relaxation!

 

 

Oh and this is the rooftop of our hotel!

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Seeeester Visit!

The weekend before Thanksgiving I hopped on a short hour long plane ride to visit the sis in Lawrence. It was relaxed and fun as any sister visit should be, it's always nice to visit your sister because you don't have to think twice about borrowing their clothes, shoes, accessories, hairbrush, deodorant, wine, and the list goes on.

•  We spent at least an hour in the brand spankin new H&M that just opened in the Plaza in Kansas City, then hit up Brio for some delicious wine, pizza and pasta!

•  After dinner we headed to Juls house in Lawrence, it should probably be called a Brothel b/c 8 girls live there. She lives on the 3rd floor in what she calls her "nook" and what I'd call a converted attic. Regardless it was cozy and cute, and it's no wonder her butt's in shape b/c those stairs are no joke. I forgot my phone in there twice and had to run up and then back down. phew!

• I have no pictures from this night b/c I felt like crap (stupid cold!) 
• One of Julia's roommates asked if I was her older or younger sister! hah! That was pretty cool!
• Juls got me drugged up on Allegra D and I was feeling MUCH better the next day! Turns out the over the counter cold medicine is worth the extra $10
• The next day we slept in and drove around Lawrence before stuffing our faces at lunch on their campus corner. (Queso and a grilled chicken sandwich w/ avocado and bacon does a body good)
• We quickly decided we'd seen all we needed to see in Lawrence and headed back to Kansas City
• More shopping at The Plaza occurred. 
• Juls good friend Carolyn,was nice enough to let us crash at her super cute apartment, so we got ready there and all went out to dinner
• Tapas and Sangria! Juls was taken back to Barcelona, the restaurant was called La Bodega and I highly recommend it if you're ever in Kansas City! 

• I must have asked Carolyn where she got 15 things in her apartment, it was SO cute! Made me miss the days of single living where you can have pink pillows and nobody objects! haha!
• We cabbed it to a couple of different bars, I couldn't tell you the name of them if my life depended on it, but they were fun! 
• As we got to the first bar we got to see the last play of the OU game where Baylor beat us and this led to more drinking than usual...

 Things I learned in Kansas City:

• I can't drink like a 21 year old anymore.
• If you text the ESPN alerts back they don't respond
• I shouldn't ever book a flight for before noon after going out with 21 year olds.
• Getting selected for a random pat down when you feel like death is the worst
• Having to walk through the airport barefoot to get to the pat down room makes you feel like a criminal
• There's no good food at the Kansas City airport to help aid you if you happen to be hangover, there's a quizno's and a snack stand, no help for someone who might want McDonald's breakfast
• I need to visit my sister more.

Austin Re-Cap

We had SO much fun in Austin the other weekend! I cannot wait to go back, I seriously love that city. Dave and I will be spending the next 3 years convincing our families to move there. So we'll have free babysitters nearby of course... why else? haha jk! (sort of)

We drove down Friday and arrived at around 3ish, after checking in and changing suites (the floor in our room was soaking wet, so strange) we walked down 6th street and showed Eric around, it was his first time, and his birthday. Which is probably why 1900 vegas bombs were consumed later on that night.

The 3 of us walked down to J. Black's and ate the most amazing white queso ever! And had 2 rounds of birthday shots. What were we thinking? After dinner the rest of our group had made it to town so we walked back to the hotel to meet them.

Notice I'm already doing the lifted eyebrows to hold up my drunk eyes... this is not going to end well.
I somehow managed to convince everyone to walk a half a mile to a new bar, Lustre Pearl so that we could all sweat our a**es off and hula hoop!

 Eric creeping in the back... it's his birthday, we'll let him get away with it I guess.

 But, should we let him get away with this? I don't know..

After leaving Lustre Pearl we all decided we needed to dance, so we started walking toward 6th St. I was being a baby (it was super hot out and the walk was more than 5 blocks) so I asked a rick-shaw driver how much he'd charge me? When he said 1 cent I said Hell yeah! Heather and I hopped on and Dave came along to ensure the guy wasn't giving us a free ride to a back alley dumpster somewhere. :) I watch too much crime TV.

I asked the guy how his night was going, b/c I'm super friendly when staring at people's asses. I kid you not, his response was, "I'm great! I just smoked a lotta hash!" Ohhhhk, whatever floats your boat dude! After several blocks of silence, I had to break the ice again by asking him if he'd ever farted on anyone. I truly make the most lovely conversation after several drinks. For those of you still reading, his response was, "Yes of course, I just try and peddle real fast when that happens." I think that's a good policy.

He dropped us off and we looked for the most air conditioned bar we could find. After the boys ordered their drinks and didn't get us any, Heather and I complained to the bartender and he took care of us with a free shot and a free beer each! Hah take that boys! Or maybe that was their plan all along? To get out of paying for our drinks? Hmmm not sure if I really care either way at this point. 

From there we bar-hopped to the Chuggin Monkey where the guys played that dumb game where they slam each others beers and make each other chug. Real mature. 

Then a dance party ensued... and more shots. 

And then we ended up here:

I knew Heather and I would be good friends the second she cut to the front of the line and ordered us a hot pepperoni pizza to go with 4 sides of ranch. 

Luckily, we were walking distance to our hotel, so from here we walked home to engage in a feast. 

The aftermath. 

The next day, we rolled out of bed, made ourselves look presentable and headed out for some Chuy's mexican food. Because we clearly hadn't consumed enough the night before.

After we ate, we headed to the Domain to do some shopping, I had a Zara craving and had to get my fix! I brought this guy home with me: yummy!

After shopping, we headed back to the hotel to veg out before another night on the town. Somehow we started watching Life As We Know It. And got all the guys SO into it! Hilarious! We had to get ready before it was over, it was a mini-battle.

We walked to Bar Chi Sushi for dinner, ate way too much and were able to convince a cab driver to take 5 of us to Kung Fu (they have some weird law in Austin that they're only allowed to take 4 passengers even if it's a van).

We got to see Sunny at Kung Fu! And she convinced Dave to take a shot of pickle juice followed by a shot of straight vodka. Yikes!

We were all tired after the night before and couldn't handle the crowd in Kung Fu, so we left and opted to have drinks at a restaurant down the street. After a few margaritas and vegas bombs (hair of the dog much) we were ready to hit the town again! I didn't take any more pictures until the walk home, but trust me we had a good time. 

 Dave carried me home, he's such a good hubsband.

It was a great trip and I can't wait to go back!