Cooler Weather!

Well, while the upper midwest is finally starting to feel the chilling effects of fall, things are definitely looking up weather wise in our neck of the woods. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous the past week, with daytime temps in the mid 80's (sans humidity), and evening temps in the upper 60's. Not that this beautiful "fall" Texas weather has convinced us otherwise into wanting to stay here past this year, but it has definitely come as a welcome break from the mid to upper 90's that was common for the past few months since we moved down here. The past few days we have actually turned the air conditioning off in favor of the cooler weather outside, imagine that!

So we figured with our newfound coolfront, that we'd try to get outside and enjoy some fresh air. Last weekend we had planned on bike riding the Trinity River Trail in Fort Worth, but unfortunately it rained most of the weekend...pretty rare in Texas.

This weekend ended up being a fairly short one for both of us...on Saturday Chris attended a CE course, and Emily worked overtime (apparently she felt at a loss for things to do without Chris) to help chip away at our impending credit card bill due to our recent plethora of plane ticket purchases.

Sunday found us a little bit tired from the long week, but we decided to venture back to Fort Worth and check out the bike trail. After getting a new inner tube for Emily's bike, we drove the hour long drive to Fort Worth and enjoyed a light bikeride along the river. We both regretted not bringing the camera on the ride to include more pics for the blog, as there were some great views of the city from the park, so we figure we'll have to head back there again and bring the camera along.

Still going strong at 18 years...what a babe magnet!

After getting back to Dallas and watching the rest of the Cowboy's game, we met up with one of Chris' fellow residents and his wife for a mexican fiesta at Uncle Julio's, our newfound favorite mexican restaurant.

So all in all a short weekend, and not to mention Iowa ended up defeating Illinois, so at least Iowa's football season hasn't been a total disaster (well, pretty much). Hopefully they can at least pull out a victory against Northwestern so that Vamsi can't laugh at Iowa two years in a row, but I wouldn't count on it the way they're playing so far.