It was the weekend! (Now it’s Sunday, which–I am sure–I will dread soon enough, but for now I am still excited that tomorrow is Monday and I get to go to work again!) As Wylie mentioned, we stayed pretty low-key this weekend, but managed to squeeze in some fun stuff. I enjoyed First Friday in Downtown Bryan for several reasons–1. It is nice to be able to walk there. 2. The Village Cafe seems like it has good food and good people at it, and homemade sangria which I didn’t see soon enough this time, but will definitely try next time. 3. Kids in a spashing fountain. 4. A band on the street. 5. A very delicious “taco” that was so good. 6. Some awesome bluegrass.

Yesterday Wylie and I both had some work to do, so we spent the early part of the day doing that. Not that exciting, but had to be done. Then we went and saw the movie “Funny People” with Seth Rogan and Adam Sandler. If I was an official type person, I think I would have given it 5 stars. As it is, I am just a regular person and I will give it a thumbs up. I giggled quite a bit, and had a tear in my eye a few times as well…not an easy feat, but I am starting to think that Judd Appatow has my number. The evening was filled with more fun stuff–mostly lounging and a trip to the DQ. We realized that it was nice to spend a Saturday like that, but we will need to start planning day trips and stuff for the weekends if we want to get to everything on our Texas List, since we now have less than a year here!

This morning Wylie made us some from scratch pancakes, which were kind of new to me. I told him about the beer pancakes my dad used to make, and that was new to him. They were pretty tasty and a full belly made me take a nap. We did a few errands this afternoon–I had to get some watch batteries replaced, so we braved the mall for a few minutes, and I remembered that I don’t like the mall that much.

That’s about it. I am going to put up some photos of my new bike, which I love. Wylie took them Friday as I got home from work, it was like 104 degrees out and I was very sweaty. I hope it doesn’t really rain too much this week so that I can ride it.

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Hooray! 4/5  of the way done with my first week of internship! The good news is that those exclamation points are not just for the heck of it…I am actually, really, truthfully, 100% loving it so far! (OK, maybe not the 6:30am alarm clock part, but that’s no secret…) This week has mostly been meeting the staff and other important people on campus and learning their names and what they do and what kinds of questions they can answer for me next week, when this week seems like a blur and I have to ask where everything goes again…:) Everyone is really nice so far and interested in making this a good experience, so I appreciate that. We have been doing some fun stuff as well–like today we went on a scavenger hunt all over campus to get aquainted with where things are and what is important at Texas A & M. It seems like traditions are one of the most important things at Texas A & M. The Corps of Cadets is a big deal here and there are lots of things that go along with that…there is a dog, Reville (rev-i-lee), and there is yelling at midnight before home football games, and there are class rings being purchased by the thousands and dunked in beer at the Dixie Chicken …  We had a fun time today and took a lot of silly photos along the way, I will see if my cohort will let me post a few.

Speaking of my cohort…I think I love them! They are all really fun and nice and I will be glad to go through this with them and hopefully hang out some along the way! We all attended the annual Division of Student Affairs social this evening and brought our sweeties and families, and it was good to get to meet them all. We ate some BBQ and a lot of desserts. There were a few weird things though, like a sing along and the chicken dance…I’m not sure about that stuff…

Hmmm…Wylie already wrote about the biking, and I am glad that that seems like it will work out for me, at least some days. We have been having fun in the evenings…last night we made cookies to take to the social and there was the bike riding…we also tried another pizza place on Tuesday–Buck’s–which was my least favorite so far. I do get tired pretty early though, so hopefully I will learn how to manage that better…Any tips???

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Yesterday, after Teresa got home from work, we got on our bikes, and went back to her office. She wanted to see how long it would take her to do the ride, about 35 minutes, and I have been feeling the need to get on my bike.

It wasn’t a bad ride, about two thirds of the way has bike lanes, and some of the roads are not that traveled by cars. Some parts of the route are a little sketchy, but that is a problem with biking on most roadways. Usually it’s the big intersections that are the craziest.

We got to Teresa’s office, and back home, just fine. It was good to get out for an actual bike ride. I think I need to raise my seat about an inch though. I will remember that for next time.

Here is the route we took both ways.

Want to read the Texas biking laws? They are a good read, really.

And, here is a good movie on some basic road biking techniques. I had found one a while ago that I liked a little better, but this one is good, and quick, and informative.

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Wooh, what a weekend! It was a busy one here in Bryan, Texas. Lots happened. So much in fact that I was unable to update until this evening.

Saturday was a busy day for the two of us. We ran several errands for some semi important things that were needed around the house. We purchased one new three-speed cruiser for Teresa. We ate some sketchy Mexican food, and we danced some serious Contra Dancing.

The errands were only semi important, and I can only remember one of them now. We purchased a new TV last week and needed a cable in order for our eyes to see the best movies that they can. I also had to return something to Best Buy, so it was a two-birds-with-one-stone kind of thing.

The bike purchasing was great. Teresa had gone to a couple bike shops, and many place online, looking for a new bike. She had a cruiser, but it was only a one-speed. She wanted gears. So, she found a bike she liked over at BCS Bikes right near texas A&M’s campus, so we went to look at it and possibly buy it. When we got there the bike she had test rode and liked had been sold! Thankfully this shop has more than one bike, and she saw another that she liked. After a test ride and some serious thinking, she decided that this new bike was the bike for her. It is a nice cruiser, copper and cream, with three gears. Exactly what she was looking for. Now she just needs a basket and some streamers for the handle bars.

After bringing home her new bike we needed to head right back out in order to make it to the Contra Dancing. Though we did leave some extra time for dinner in there. Nobody wants to contra dance on an empty stomach, or 30 minutes after eating. We decided to try a place semi near the contra dancing location, a restaurant by the name of Los Cucos. Sounds like a nice name right Well that is about the end of the niceness. Except for the Funky Face Disguise machine by the entrance, that was pretty awesome.

After our sub-par dinner we headed over to the Unitarian church for some contra dancing. It was pretty awesome. We were nervous at first, wondering what kind of people would be there, and if we would have to excuse ourselves after the first dance. Thankfully everybody there was great, and we stayed for the full three hours.

After the three hours dancing around in a hot Unitarian church, we felt the need for ice cream, so we went on over to Ben & Jerry’s for some cool treats. It was a great Saturday, which was followed by a lazy Sunday. Lounging around in the morning. A late breakfast that perhaps should be called brunch. After a while we were able to rouse ourselves and head out into the world for a couple more errands. This time, of the necessity kind. We first went to Academy Sports again so we could get Teresa a helmet so she can safely ride her bike around. I am very glad she agreed to wear one. I like her head intact. After the helmet-a-thon, we got groceries. After that we decided it would be a good idea to break in Teresa’s new bike and helmet, so we went for our first bike ride together around the neighborhood. During our ride we passed by a cop car on the side of the road with the officer outside of it. He summoned to us and asked if we had seen a man and girl from where we had come from. It seems that this man had kidnapped this girl and was dragging her down the street. Unfortunately we had not seen her. Other than that drama, the ride was great. Teresa loves her new bike, I love riding with her, and I love that she wore her helmet. It was a pretty good Sunday, which was nice since the next day was Teresa’s first day at her new job! We don’t need a stressful weekend before that kind of thing.

Now, take a gander at some photos from the weekend, and a video of Teresa contra dancing.

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