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(T)winning weekend recap

I love long weekends. Especially when somebody comes to visit. I don't get out much, so when somebody comes into town it's my excuse to go out and have fun!

The weather was pretty crappy Friday and Saturday. There was so. much. rain. on Friday that I thought my run would be canceled. But it wasn't. It was mainly misty and overcast on Saturday. All twin had wanted to do was sit by the pool on Saturday and we couldn't. It had barely rained in the past few months and then she comes in to town and bam. Monsoon.

If you ever come to visit me, we have to go to Max's Wine Dive for brunch. Amazing. I had eggs benedict and mimosas. We were sitting right by the huge batch of mimosas they make. Unfortunately, they no longer offer bottomless. Boo.
All the mimosas.


Lets face it. It's almost always all about the food. So later on Saturday we stopped by Pinkberry for a snack. So what if it was 6pm and we hadn't had dinner yet?
When I asked twin where she wanted to go while she was here, she said Pinkberry and Sprinkles. We are so alike.
After running 10 miles in the early am and then going out for brunch and some shopping, we decided to take it easy Saturday night and just watch some tv. We don't get to see each other more than a handful of times a year, so it's nice sometimes to just hang out.

Ugh. Sunday morning's breakfast taco debacle. I wanted Tacos a go go. But when we got there, they told us it was a 30-40 minute wait once we ordered. And twin just doesn't understand about breakfast tacos so we went to Cafe Express by Dry Bar. Not. even. close. Major fail on my part.

Omg. drybar. I love this place. It just opened maybe 10 days ago. They offer monthly memberships. I am so in trouble. I love a good blow out, would go all the time if it wasn't for all the running that would ruin the pretty hair. We had appointments at noon and the staff and stylists were amazing. And there were more mimosas!


Such pretty hair.
Now it was time for some serious shopping. We were getting pictures taken at 6:30pm and even after my online shopping binge I still had nothing to wear. Of course we ended up at Nordstroms. And I found a great pair of jeans. That were way too long. No problem, the sales associate said, we can hem them. For tonight? Her face fell a little bit, but then she smiled. Sutre, they'll be ready in an hour. Way to go Nordstroms. We were supposed to be looking for dresses to wear to our cousin's wedding in two weeks, but, well, we didn't really have enough time.
The tailored my jeans in under an hour!

We went down to Discovery Green at 6pm. I like to be early. Out photographer was a few minutes late though, and a little weird. And I was pretty annoyed when she told me it would take 3-4 weeks to get the photos back. We wanted to get them done to give a few to our mom, but really just bc it's fun to get dressed  up and we don't have too many random pics of us. But it was also a test run for me as I'm looking for photographers for some upcoming work projects. Unless it's a wedding, it shouldn't take that long to get pics back. So she may be a no go for my work stuff. Unless her pictures are amazing.
Discovery Green
Now that it was almost time for twin to go home, Monday was beautiful. So instead of having breakfast, we put on our swimsuits and went down to the pool. It was pretty nice out for Houston - low to mid 80s - but for twin that is hot. So we only last about an hour. Hopefully the sun is out this weekend so I can work on my tan for this wedding!

After the pool, she packed up and so did I! I put together everything I had bought over the past week and thankfully most of it is going back to the store. We took a quick trip down to Sprinkles and she bought a six pack to take home and share with the fam. Then it was off to the airport and time to say goodbye.

Finally got some pool time in on Monday.

This is my return pile!

Much needed sugar fix after the twin's departure.

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