Life in Dallas

Since moving to Dallas, we have been having a great time. Here are some of the fun things we have been doing.

First, we got addicted to caprese salads in Europe so we tried to make our own at home. We bought some olive oil and balsamic vinegar in Europe and found some great mozzarella cheese to go with them and now we can have delicious, fresh, caprese salads whenever we want.

Natali settled into her job, and always looks so cute when she goes into work.

 We kept hearing about the Texas State Fair so we took a night off and went and we were not disappointed. The fair is full of activities, rides, shows, and FOOD. The fair rates all of the food and provides a list of the top 10 items for the year, almost all of which are deep fried.

So we started out going to the ostrich races. They let them run around for a while, and then they had actual races. It brought back lots of memories of when my family raised ostriches.

Next up was Boris the pig, at 1355 pounds, he's not your average ham.

Here are a few other random pictures from the fair.

And there isn't a Texas State Fair without Big Tex

Now, the food. Natali and I just started off at the top of the top 10 list and ate as many as we could. I was in heaven. So we started with the classic corny dog.

They even have fried butter.

Even the desserts are fried:

We then had some fried avocado roll.

Natali's favorite was the stuffed olives. I think we had 3 of them. So good!

We took a break from fried food and had a mango on a stick.

We finished the night with a delicious Cuban Roll, my favorite thing of the night.

Our 4 year anniversary came around on the 24th of October. We had spent most of our money in Europe and spent the rest on fried food at the fair so we kept it pretty low key. Natali got some pretty flowers at work from her (not-so) secret admirer. Crazy that we have been married for 4 years and I love her even more than the day we got married.

Then for dinner we went to Hibiscus and I had the best pork chop ever.

We were eating a lot of caprese salads and decided we needed to find a place with good olive oil and balsamic vinegar. We found a great place in Grapevine that had a ton of samples and all kinds of flavors of oils and vinegars. We had a great time taste testing all of the different flavors and ended up buying all kinds of oils and vinegars.

We were looking to watch a movie and ended up at a theater that had bean bags and couches instead of regular seats. Natali was a little grossed out, but I enjoyed a comfy seat while watching the movie.

Our apartment is a quick 8 minute walk from the American Airline's Center, so we decided to catch a Josh Groban concert. Natali was so excited and totally loved it.  We also got to go and see Harry Conick Jr at the AT&T Performing Arts Center.

Then Thanksgiving rolled around. Since we had to stay here, Dan, Launa, Sam, Jared, Tracie, and Jayden all flew out to visit us and spend the holiday with us. Our apartment is great, but it wasn't really meant for 8 people. We had 2 air mattresses, the couch, and both beds full of people. Natali and I cooked our first turkey dinner, and it turned out... edible. It was a little hectic, but it was a great holiday. Sadly, the only pictures we got of it all was of the girls when they went shopping while us boys went to Top Golf.

Natali loves this big tree at the mall. It is int he middle of an ice skating rink and is part of Natali's new holiday traditions.