Snow, Roadtrips & Credit Cards

A few things have happened since my last post.

We got snow here in Texas and it

was like real snow not just ice.

We usually get iced in rather than snowed in.

So when we woke up to the fluffy stuff

it was pretty shocking and so exciting!!

Having Tom here when it snowed was so fun

because he thought it was the craziest thing

seeing snow in a place he always assumed was

constantly hot and sunny.

So our snow day was pretty fantastic.

The only downside was we were pretty much

trapped inside the house for about a week

because we had an ice storm at the beginning of

the week and once that was just about gone we

got all of this wonderful snooowww.

Unfortunately we're still trapped inside the house

because my house is undergoing some pretty

major uplifts this week.

We had some foundation issues so we got cracks fixed

and now the painters are here and Tom and I get

to stay home with the workers to keep an eye on things

while my parents are at work.

So we're SO READY to get out of the house.

Luckily we have a trip coming up.

Spring break is next week so we're

going to use my time off of work to go on a Texas road trip. 

Tom has only seen Fort worth, Dallas and some of Houston

so I'm really excited to take him down to Austin 

and San Antonio and down to the gulf.

We'll get a nice week away to explore

this huge state together.

I'm just really excited for the food

that we will feast on while we're in these great cities.

The food...I can't wait!!!

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Here's some fun travel news...

Tom's sister is getting married next Year in JAMAICA!!

It was only a few months ago that we

were soaking up the sun in the Dominican Republic

so we're so excited to have another beachy trip in the works.

This beachy trip got us thinking about money.

We're doing good on money, no complaints or anything

but we knew that booking Jamaica would cost a pretty penny

and if we're going to have to spend some G's to book this trip

then we might as well be getting rewarded for it.

So we started looking into a travel rewards credit card.

My cousin recently told me about Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Card.

I looked into it and they were offering 50,000 points if

you spend $2,000 in the first three months.

Sign us up!!!

With this Jamaica trip to book we can easily put $2,000

on the card in the first three months and pay it off in that

same month so that we get the points and not the interest

annnndddd build up my credit all at the same time.

Credit cards can be really scary because

no one wants to go into debt but that seems

to be how a lot of credit card stories end...deebbttt.

So we're going to be crazy, annoyingly 

careful with this new card.

We want the rewards so we're going to use it

quite frequently but we're also going to pay it off

so fast the banks head will spin ;)

So that's pretty much what's happening over here.

I can't wait to leave on our trip next week.

I'll post more about it as we go!

Have a great week!