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This past weekend we had our first official visitors! Katy and Devin {Layne's sorority sister and her arm candy} came down from Irving to see us...

Dag yo, it was a blast! First of all, they got in on Friday night and after dropping of their bags at our apartment, we headed out to a little place called the Royal Oak. It's a bar/pub down in Neartown and it was our first trip to the place. It was pretty cool, good ambiance, seemingly non-douchey crowd, diverse drink selection, tasty looking food menu. Except the music was way too loud. Like, way, way too loud. Like, couldn't even talk to our friends that we haven't seen in basically 15 years. But, gotta add that this place allegedly makes a mean old fashioned. Bacon maple rye, only one dash bitters, maple syrup, orange peel. Sounds yummy, gotta go back for one. But back to business, besides the music, we had a great time beginning our catch-up weekend.

Next day we took them on our weekly Memorial Park walk with Char and then just hung out and played Nertz the rest of the day. Other than the fact that Layne kicked the butt out of everyone in Nertz {well, Devin had a small winning streak... at the end} everybody had fun. For dinner we went to Chachos, which is a pretty darn good TexMex place near our apartment open24 hours. Yes, all day, everyday. It's nice to know if we wake up at 3 am one night starving {or when Layne is pregnant and craving breakfast tacos at 11:38 pm} we know of a good place thats a half mile away. Afterwards we decided to take them to our friendly, neighborhood Arsenal pub: The Richmond Arms. Perfect relaxed atmosphere to finish the weekend. Next time, we're gonna be heading up to Irving to check out their neck of the woods. Can't wait!

Interesting aside: contrary to normal female operations, Layne and Katie only took 3 pics together and they were all within 10 seconds of each other. That's it. Two sorority sisters, 40 hours together, 3 pics. And one is blurry. Strange stuff...

In other news, we got a homemade bacon infused rye recipe from Mr. Hulse. Heard it was good, but obviously we don't just trust word of mouth, but rather taste of mouth; therefore, we decided to make it on our own.

And it's amazing.

Process of making it is pretty easy--alls you need is a bit o' bacon fat and some spirits {we chose rye, so the spice and the smoke would meld...hopefully}. We tried a sip neat and then had it with some orange peel, bitters and maple syrup in an old fashioned. Pretty tasty stuff. Also, K commissioned L to create a label for some bottles that we got for the bacon rye, seeing as how she's the resident Picasso. It turned out pretty bad-a, if we do say so ourselves.

Currently watching: Bachelor finale {we're always a day behind on shows bc we do Hulu/Netflix instead of cable}. Courtney is so blah, with her stupid mouth-pucker, side slanty smirk. But Linzi always does this head-down, eyes-up, weird look-y thing. Plus certainly there is a resident Bachelor/ABC hair stylist that travels to these locations and makes sure everything is in order, right? I mean, can we not please just cut Benjamin's hair, please??

Currently craving: donuts. Can someone tell us why donut places aren't open 24/7 like Chacho's?

Stay tuned for the next episode.