Living the Lubbock Life

Well, I thought I would post a little more of my Lubbock fun!

For one thing there are jack rabbits everywhere and they are just huge and awkward, like so:

Also, I found out that you can purchase all kinds of crazy "exotic" animals here, including prairie dogs.  Now I was extremely amused by this as they live all over the sides of the roads in good 'ol Colorado...but here...pets.  Obviously, since I had never had the opportunity before...I had to hold one.  He was fat and squishy and sorta soft...he had ugly teeth though...and he LOVED a good belly rub!  I also learned that they have no depth perception and if left on a high surface...will walk right off of it and kill him self and not have a clue...ha....prairie dogs.  You can also buy marmosets, which is weird and cool all at once...so tiny...so cute:

We pretty much shopped til we dropped all day!  We went to Texas Tech again to go to their greek shop because i thought a XO t-shirt with Texas Tech on it would be a great souvenir...they were sol out so i ended up with a keychain and a luggage identifier...Rho Beta go Chi O!!!!

We also went to all these cute decorating shops.  They have some interesting trends here in Texas!  They like to paint metal and cut out words and such then glue glass and beads, etc on them to make them pretty...I got two pieces to bring home, I will take pics and post once they are hanging in their new homes at my house!!!

We also ate at this little burger joint called Blue Sky Burgers...they were SO good.  It's like a fast food/sit down place...man that trend is spreading like wild fire!   It was one of the best burgers I have had and um...can I just say...we have all had Huey's so I know a good burger when I meet one!

The highlight of the day though had to be Painting with a Twist.  It's this little shop, apparently we have one in Germantown...I will be frequenting it, and they have painting classes several nights a week.  Now this is not a technique painting class, they simply walk you through steps to paint the painting you signed up for off of their calendar.  It's so fun, go at your pace...and you end up with a pretty neat piece of art...but you know what else is cool?   You can bring wine!  Yea!   You can also have painting parties and you get to pick out the painting your group wants them to show you how to paint.  Tonight we did "Looking Up,"  I think it turned out nicely:

Well, I start the trek back to Memphis tomorrow afternoon.  I am NOT going straight through all 12 hours this time!  Going to stop in Dallas, spend the night and get up and hopefully be back to my house and my pup and my wonderful husband by lunchtime or shortly thereafter on Saturday!!!  Texas is a fun adventure but turns out...I like to be at home with my man!!

See you soon Volunteer state!!!