Back in the World

Hello! As most of you know, I sat for the Texas Bar Examination last week. It was a grueling 3 days, and while I can't guarantee the results (keeping fingers crossed), I CAN say how relieved I am that it's over. I studied incredibly hard, and because of that, Mihir and I were unable to fully enjoy the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area has we had during our first couple of months here. We did our best to make of for it during my first weekend of freedom by dining out at Queen of Sheba, a wonderful Ethiopian restaurant in Dallas. It was SUPERB--one of my definate favorites so far. Mihir also surprised me with tickets to a musical called Brooklyn. It was a great show! Former American Idol runner-up Diana DeGarmo was the star, and she really has a great voice. We also did lots of shopping--we finally got some much needed bookshelves for our study. We got unfinished wood so we can paint them any color we want. We're hoping to accomplish that next weekend. It feels so good to have free time again!

Cow pokes

We spent a good part of a lazy Monday on this long July 4th weekend exploring the stockyards of Fort Worth. It was a bit cloudier with intermittent rain, a good thing for Texas, but it wasn't heavy enough to disrupt our plans. We started off with a good ol' cow herding demonstration and then sauntered to some Texas style barbeque meat.


I had half a chicken, and Steph ate a chicken sandwich - what can we say, we avoid red meat, and even this occasion wasn't a good enough excuse. We then spent a good few hours visiting the knickknack stores searching for a replacement for my armadillo keychains which broke last week. Armadillos are out of vogue though and we had no such luck. We got Steph a nice cowgirl boot keychain. Myself - I'm stuck with a plain label type :). We then had an even more fun time building a bear in the Build a Bear workshop for some friends of ours.