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Let me start by saying we had a wonderful time in Texas, and we’re all excited about moving there.  That being said, the trip got off to a ROUGH start.  Our flight was delayed for four hours both because President Obama flew into SFO and the weather was bad, so they wouldn’t let any other flights take off or land.  We didn’t get into our hotel room until after 4am, and we woke up the next morning at 9am to go check out the first neighborhood on our list.  Other than being really tired, we had a fun time looking around.  

Up to this trip I have pureed Amelia’s baby food at home, but with traveling that obviously wasn’t possible.  I bought Earth’s Best organic baby food to feed her that first night.  Two hours after feeding her, after we were all asleep, we heard her vomit (she had only done this one other time when I had to give her this same brand of baby food from a jar).  Our poor baby was covered in vomit, so we cleaned her off and laid her in bed with us; about 5 minutes later, she vomited again.  Again,  we cleaned her up, thinking she didn’t have anything left to throw up, we laid her between us.  She vomited again,  but this time starts to choke on the bile.  

Mike and I are pretty upset at this point because of how intense the choking is.  He calls the front desk clerk and tells her about Amelia and asks where the nearest emergency room is; the girl tells him she doesn’t know and that she’s with customers so she’ll have to call him back.  Right after he hangs up, Amelia starts vomiting and choking again, so we call 911.  The girl calls us back and says she doesn’t know where any hospitals are and we ask her to bring up extra towels.  A few minutes later she knocks on our door, she’s talking on her cell phone and hands me the towels and walks away.  I’m not sure I’ve ever been angrier in my life!  The paramedics show up and observe Amelia; she throws up two more times but doesn’t seem to be having an allergic reaction (no rashes, swelling,  etc.).   Two hours later,  Amelia is feeling and looking much better!  She slept between us soundly the rest of the night; I woke up the next morning to her stroking my cheek and cooing at me.  

I would say those 24 hours were probably the worst of my life!  Poor Noah -- he was such a trooper,  but he was so scared for his sister!  We tried to make the rest of the trip really fun for him so that he wouldn’t hate Texas.  The next morning, Mike talked to the hotel manager, who was very apologetic about the girl’s behavior the night before and refunded us our money.  We switched hotels,  and the rest of the trip was a lot of fun!

In all, we visited eight different suburbs of northwest Dallas,  and our two favorites were Flower Mound and Highland Village.  In general, we thought they had more trees, rolling hills and land for each house.  The people were so friendly,  and it’s amazing how much more affordable Texas is than California! 

After spending five days in the area, we are really excited about the move!  Some of the highlights of our trip were going to the Stock Yards and eating in Sundance Square in Fort Worth.  We also went to quite a few parks to let Noah play, one of the parks was probably the neatest (Castle made out of wood) I've ever seen and it's in Flower Mound!

A rat on a cat on a dog.

Only one where Amelia was looking at the camera.