Off to a rough start

Saturday we picked up Lydia's peapod ---> in Georgetown on the way to Dallas. I saw the travel bed in a One Step Ahead magazine and was fortunate to find someone on Craigslist who was selling a brand new one since I couldn't find a store that could ship one to me in time for our trip. Let me tell ya, it is way more convenient than a bulky playpen. So, we got to Dallas around 6:45 PM, hung out at our friend Jeff's place for a couple hours and then had dinner with him and Jasmine at a delicious Italian restaurant called Patrizio's.

Lydia had a rough night in the peapod and kept climbing out since we didn't think that we needed to zip it up for her. When we all started getting ready for the day, we realized that we didn't have our new Canon Powershot camera, which stunk because we wouldn't have any video footage, plus, we just lost our new camera! Hopefully Lydia took it out of the diaper bag while I wasn't looking, but right now it's pretty much as good as gone. :( Okay, so we're all in the car ready to head to the airport and our car doesn't start. ARGH! AND, we had just taken our car to the dealership on Thursday and no one mentioned anything! Fortunately, there was this nice man who had jumper cables and helped get us on our way. We hope it was a one time deal since we still decided to drive our car to the airport and leave it there.

The flight went quite smoothly with Lydia sleeping the entire time and in her car seat too; we were fortunate that it was not a full flight. We got stuck with a burnt orange rental car...well, here's to the UT spirit! (Trung didn't bring the USB cable, so we'll have to "backdate" pictures, but rest assured, plenty will be posted.) We had lunch at a sports bar, where Trung saw his Steelers defeat the Seahawks; and then we went to our condo. We were pleased to find a two story condo and the best accomodations we have gotten via Plan with Tan. We had dinner at Joe's Crab Shack after a very long wait and purchased some essentials at Walgreens before heading back to the condo. Lydia didn't take her afternoon nap due to all the excitement, so she was exhausted and ended up sleeping for twelve hours. We may just switch her to one nap a day while we're on this trip and try to continue it when we go home.