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[Travel Tuesday] Livingstone, Zambia

Over the next several weeks, we will be outlining our 2012 trip to Africa!  This has been one of our favorite, most adventurous vacations to date.  Sometimes you go to a place and are happy to have checked it off a bucket list.  For us, Africa checked several items off of our bucket list however we added a new one that says return to Africa.  We can't wait to relive the memories through these posts!!

[Travel Tuesday] Dublin, Ireland

During our time in the UK, we took a few days to hop over to Dublin to experience a bit of Ireland.  The great thing about Europe is the discount airlines really make it affordable to travel between the cities.  While we have heard the Irish accent before, we were shocked at how thick it was here.  Even when English was being spoken, Brian had an extremely hard time understanding.  We had quite a few laughs as Brian thought they were speaking Irish Gaelic when it was actually English!

Our only together pic in Ireland, outside the Guinness Factory.  Yes, it's blurry.

St. Patrick's Day Round-Up

I know St. Patrick's Day was last week but we are still in March therefore I'm not too late for a holiday inspired post ;)  Truth-be-told we are not huge fans of St. Patrick's Day although I never pass up an opportunity to dress festively and add a few holiday touches to our decor at home.  In college, we avoided the St. Patrick's Day bars and parties.  It wasn't until we moved to Chicago that we appreciated it a bit more and started to get out a few times in celebration.

Texas just doesn't seem to have the traditions and interest in celebrating anything other than it's own history therefore there wasn't any big "event" that goes on.  Below is a quick summary of our St. Patrick's Day experiences over the past few years.

Ahhh Chicago......they really do it best.  They have a tradition of dying the river green each year.  It's fun to watch and creates really great photo moments :)  We first experienced the river dying in March 2008.  

Fun trivia fact: The powder is orange in color, it first turns the river yellow before mixing to green! (We really had this as a trivia question one time)

[Travel Tuesday] Scotland

Brian has family in Scotland so we were lucky enough to arrange a visit and stay with his Aunt and cousin while we were visiting the beautiful country.  We stayed in Branchton and used that as a base to get everywhere by train.  We found the train system to be very easy to understand and there were many options to get us to/from our daily destinations.  We visited in May and the stereotype was true.....it rains ALL...THE...TIME.  Overall we really enjoyed our time here and hope to get back someday. 

Port Glasgow

Sightseeing
St. Andrew's
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Arran
Branchton

Fish Fry Fail

If I don't make dinner, we will typically find a seafood restaurant to try for dinner on Friday's during Lent.  We think back to the days in Pittsburgh and remember the Economy Fire Hall fish fry's.  There has to be something like that here in Texas right?   Usually we don't know or see any places hosting a fish fry, but this past week we found a church here in Katy that advertised one.

Why not try it out?

Amanda arrived home from work and we did what any normal young couple in their 30's would do on a Friday night... we headed to the church fish fry for a 5:30 dinner!

The Houston Rodeo

We have made it an annual event to attend the Houston Rodeo since we moved here.  This is actually our third year as TX residents, doesn't time fly by!  Yes, it's cheesy, crowded and overpriced but it's Houston tradition and we enjoy this annual event.