Fall Adventures.

This weekend I had a couple of photo sessions, so Dave and I got a lot of fun time outdoors. Here are a few pics from our adventures...


...what did you do this weekend?

Texas Trip.

Dave and I got to Houston late Thursday night so we just talked with our friend Joel for a bit and crashed for the night. Friday we spent the whole day with Joel and his two kids. They are just the cutest...

Saturday we drove back up to Dallas. We set up Dave's equipment and had a little bit of time to stop by the hotel and get ready for the night before heading back to Opening Bell...this was Dave's second time there and it is always a packed house...

We can't wait to make it back down to Texas again soon!

On the road again...

Ok folks, we're headed to Knoxville, TN! We are SO excited to see Dave's fam and friends like @d_c_davis :) We're leaving tonight, that way we have some time to hang out this week before the craziness begins...oh and don't worry my wonderful Dad John is swapping cars with us so we will have air conditioning (woo hoo!) Thanks John!!

Next week Dave has a show, radio appearance, or TV interview every day starting Tues, some days he has two! It is going to be a fun/exhausting week! We plan on making some videos and taking a TON of pictures while we're there, which we will be tweeting and blogging about as we get the time. I will also be doing my first vlog, so make sure to head over to the post asking for questions to leave a comment with the question(s) you have for me!

So...who is in/near the Knoxville area? We would love to see/meet you! Here is the list of shows (some of the radio interviews can be streamed from anywhere!)...

     Tuesday May 24th~ WJRV The River Radio Show (7:30-9am ET) --can be streamed here

     Tuesday May 24th~ WDVX Blue Plate Special Radio Show (12pm ET) --can be streamed here
  
     Wednesday May 25th~ WFIV Homegrown (7pm ET) --can be streamed here

     Wednesday May 25th~ WDVX Writer's Block Radio Show (10pm ET) --can be streamed here

     Thursday May 26th~ Hard Rock Cafe (9pm in Gatlinburg)

     Friday May 26th~ WVLT Channel 8 News (4pm)

     Friday May 26th~ Borders (7pm in Turkey Creek)

     Saturday June 4th~ Vienna Coffee House (7pm in Maryville)

These are all going to be great shows and I am so excited we were able to get so much packed into this trip! Hard Rock Cafe is going to be a blast and I just can't wait to get there...so here goes a 14 hour car drive...good thing Dave and I always have fun on our trips :)

I'm extra excited to see this cutie...who has gotten way too big since we've been away!

Dallas!

As I wrote about last week, Dave and I got to drive down to Dallas for the weekend, it was a fun adventure (as always with us)...we got to see great friends and Dave got to play a show. We can't wait to go back! Oh and did I mention our AC went out shortly before taking this trip? Yeah...

Thursday we drove down and it was the perfect day for a drive (especially the kind of long drive with no AC.) We just rolled down the windows and it was a nice 5+ hour drive, just felt good to be on the open road and get outta town. 

We got a great deal through Hotwire and stayed at the Sheraton downtown, we had a good night just relaxing and flipping through the channels on TV...we don't have cable so we get way too excited about watching random shows we don't normally watch, like How I Met You're Mother...

Friday we went to check out Opening Bell Coffee where Dave was playing later that night. It is the perfect location for live music! We ate lunch there and it was fab, I had the roasted garlic tomato basil soup- SO yummy. 

We then headed to Ft. Worth to go get my bestie Erin, that's when the lack of AC finally caught up with us. The traffic was stopped and it was HOT. It wouldn't have mattered as much but we were all dressed and ready for the show that night- oops. 

This is how I feel about no AC

In Ft. Worth we went to Yucatan Taco Stand for dinner to have some time to catch up with Erin before heading back to Dallas for the show. I got the vegetarian tacos and they were amazing! I was so excited because, being a vegetarian, I usually don't get tacos out anymore (except fish tacos on occasion.) Dave had the Mahi-mahi and it was really good too. Then we rushed back to Dallas for Dave's show. 

The show went really well and the place was packed! Dave will definitely be doing another show there soon. We got to meet our Twitter friends Maria and Steve Manning (@Maria_Manning and @SteveManning) for the first time! They are such a sweet, cute couple and I'm so glad we finally got to meet in real life :) I can't wait to meet more of our twitter peeps when we start traveling more for shows this summer! PS~ if you're not following us, I'm @MallorieOwens on twitter and Dave is @Daveowensmusic...

After the show we drove back to Ft. Worth and stayed up way too late drinking wine, watching funny youtube videos, and just hanging with my bff...it was perfect :) I'm still beating myself up that I didn't get any pictures though! ...next time.

Saturday we woke up and went to lunch at Spiral Diner, it's a vegan place...delish! And my kinda place :) We checked out a coffee shop in Ft. Worth and talked to them about Dave playing there and then it was time to head home. The drive home was a super hot and sweaty one, it took a little longer to get home because we needed to stop and get cold drinks and cool ourselves off a few times. We were sad to leave, but happy to know we'll be back soon :)