Yep, sugar in hot sauce! It's really sad when the best hot sauce around is to be found at Taco Bell in the next town over.
Fiance has never done the Hill Country, the RiverWalk, SeaWorld, etc. so I imagine we'd be doing the tourist thing which was always fun for me. Hmmm, I wonder how NIOSA has changed since I was last there. Might be a perfect time to see whether there are any hotel rooms available (yeah right! lotsa luck with that one!) providing of course, it hasn't completely turned into something to be avoided.
I had my first fajita at NIOSA in '82 I think it was. Heck, now I can't remember the name of the hotel and bar where Teddy and the Rough Riders hung out. We had a family reunion there during Fiesta and our rooms were on the second floor. We had ringside seats on the second floor balcony for the parade.
It was either the Gunter or the Menger Hotel. My husband's grandfather was a roughrider. He has found wonderful information about him at the archives in DC. (I just called husband and asked him. He said it is the Menger Hotel.)
And NIOSA is still a wonderful celebration.