Waco and Magnolia Market!

 This was probably my favorite day in Texas besides Christmas. Doug, Laura, Josh, the girls and I went to Waco one day. I've heard Josh talk about Waco alllll the time from his mission and now that I'm obsessed with Fixer Upper and Jo and Chip I couldn't be three-ish hours away from Waco and Not go.

So, one day we got up and headed to Waco. We drove around Baylor Campus, which is so nice! The buildings are huge and beautiful and there is a really nice walking path next to it where Josh said they talked to a lot of people. This is Josh's apartment right next to Baylor. 

 Here is the Waco suspension bridge. Josh lived a couple blocks from it and when we drove to those apartments they were all boarded up and condemned haha So obviously he lived in a really nice place! We drove around all the neighborhoods Josh was a missionary in. It was fun to see the places he's told me about and to see how excited he was to see every place. Most places were run down and it was humbling to see because these people fed him huge dinners and would give him anything when they didn't have much themselves. We tried to knock on a door of one of his favorite families, but no one answered and Josh said they probably moved.

 Next stop was the SILOS! I was excited and Josh was a good sport. Im sure he was really excited too :)

 I didn't take any pictures inside because there were seriously 1000 people INSIDE. and even more outside. If I saw something I liked, I had to pick it up immediately because someone else would grab it before I could make up my mind if I wanted to buy it or not. One thing we bought I followed around a worker who was pushing a cart reloading the shelves and asked her if I could take it off the cart. And honestly, I could buy every single thing in that place! It was so fun to see Joanna's pieces and designs in real life. Sadly, my great friends Chip and Jojo weren't there.. However, I'm pretty sure her mom checked us out. haha

 WE got a lot of ideas for our future house and it made us even more excited to plan out our house and design the inside.

After visiting Magnolia Market, we decided to look around neighborhoods that Josh thought there might be "Fixer upper" houses because he recognized things from the show and we got a few hints from a worker at the market. We saw some houses we thought were on the show and we saw some Magnolia Realty signs on houses, but that was as good as it got.

We did however, see the most Christmasy house ever. The hilarious thing about this is that none of the houses in the whole two blocks around it had a single Christmas decoration. It was like they stole everyones decorations and put them on their house.

 On the way back to San Antonio, we stopped at the WORLDS LARGEST GAS STATION! It has like 120 gas pumps or something. And the gas station was like as big as a walmart. Josh and I went inside and checked it out. You could seriously buy anything in there.

 We also stopped at the Salt Lick on the way home. I guess not on the way home, but 45 minutes out of the way home. ha we got off the freeway and drove on a bunch of random back roads and came to a place with a ton of cars and tons of people. There was like a 2 hour wait so we got our food to go and ate outside under the heat lamps. Here's Josh with the girls by the pit they cooked all the meat on. It was delicious!