We have had a busy two days here in the Lone Star state. Monday evening involved going to many stores; Bed, Bath & Beyond, Pier 1, World Market, and Office Max, all looking for a basket to attach under our desk to hold computer wires. After we finally found the right basket at Office Max, we had to get something to keep it held underneath the desk, so we headed to Michael’s for some little brackets.

This afternoon involved getting a license plate holder for Teresa’s car. Texas requires two plates on your car, but her car does not have a front holder. Hence our quick trip to AutoZone. After that we needed a drill in order to pre-drill holes for the basket under the desk, so off to Lowes we went. Then we were feeling hungry and decided to have our pizza night tonight, so we searched  for local pizza. We looked around a bit, but decided on Gumby’s Pizza mainly because of the name. When we got there the sign was awesome. The inside was what I imagine a dorm room to be like, dirty and full of college students. Thankfully it wasn’t too dirty to eat, so we ordered one of the best pizzas we had had in a while, and enjoyed ourselves.

Tomorrow we will complete the desk fixin’s. I am growing tired of kicking wires.

So, yesterday after I finished up work, Teresa and I walked over to downtown Bryan. From our door to the Main St. is about a 10-15 minute walk. We were headed to the Bryan Public Library so we could get us some library cards. After some minor paperwork, we are both library card owners! We can check out books, magazines, DVD’s and framed artwork. They had some lovely paintings of sad clowns that we may need to borrow for a possible clown party.

After that we were feeling a bit peckish so we walked around looking at some local restaurants. This town, and area actually, is filthy with Taquerias. We are very excited about some good Mexican food. We think we may need to designate one night where we explore a new Taqueria each week.

We ended up at a place called the River Bridge Bar & Grill. It’s okay, nothing special, and not a lot to eat for those picky vegetarians. They had tasty fried pickles though. After the River Bridge Bar & Grill we walked a little more and ended up at DQ for some tasty ice-cream treats.

On the walk home we came across an odd thing. A lone duck, sitting on a power line. We stopped and watched it for a while before Teresa made it fly off. Check out the video below. And while you are at it, check out a couple other videos I took by have not posted.

Here we are hanging out on the railroad tracks in downtown Bryan.

Here is the duck on a wire.

And here is a bunch of birds, swallows I believe, that were flying around on Tuesday. There were even more of these birds, but I could only capture so many on video.