Tuesday, March 3, 2015

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!!!

...

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!

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