Awesome Austin!
This past weekend Dave and I, along with 2 other couples (Chris & Angela, Matt & Amy) ventured to Austin Texas. Angela grew up there and her parents were gracious enough to open their doors and let us stay there for the weekend.
We arrived at about 9.30pm and enjoyed a wonderful dinner at "Hula Hut", a great Mexican/Hawaiian fusion. The restaurant had outdoor seating on a pier in to Lake Austin and while we were enjoying our meal, a tour boat that was docking next to the restaurant, accidently hit the end of the pier!! There were some panicked faces and the waitresses came around to reassure their patrons that "this kind of thing happens all the time, like 3 times a year". After dinner we sat in the hot tub at Angela's parents house.
Saturday was a sleep-in kind if morning. We woke up to a wonderful breakfast spread that Ang's mom had prepared. After that we went downtown to the Bob Bullok Museam and for a tour of the Capital Building. Then we (the girls) dropped off the boys at a bar to watch the many football games, and we headed off to Nordstroms and Banana Republic for some much needed shopping therapy! There was a MAC Cosmetics counter and I purchased a new lip gloss! We picked up the boys, relaxed at Ang's parents house, long enough to catch the bad beginning of the Aggies' football game. Before dinner we were witness to the flying of the bats. If you don't know what I'm talking about there is this bridge called the Congress Bridge, where the largest colony of Mexican freetail bats live in the summer. They leave the bridge at dusk for feeding time where they eat over 37 thousand pounds of bugs a night. It was very cool to see, the only problem was that it was alittle too dark, and the smell was... well let's just say yucky!!! After that we ate dinner at The Salt Lick, a local BBQ place, and then experienced 6th Street, a local bar hang out where we sat on the second story balcony of the Iron Cactus and had a drink.
On Sunday we hung out and discussed the bad loss of the Aggies the previous day. We left at around 1pm to end our wonderful weekend.
(Pictures to come soon!)
We arrived at about 9.30pm and enjoyed a wonderful dinner at "Hula Hut", a great Mexican/Hawaiian fusion. The restaurant had outdoor seating on a pier in to Lake Austin and while we were enjoying our meal, a tour boat that was docking next to the restaurant, accidently hit the end of the pier!! There were some panicked faces and the waitresses came around to reassure their patrons that "this kind of thing happens all the time, like 3 times a year". After dinner we sat in the hot tub at Angela's parents house.
Saturday was a sleep-in kind if morning. We woke up to a wonderful breakfast spread that Ang's mom had prepared. After that we went downtown to the Bob Bullok Museam and for a tour of the Capital Building. Then we (the girls) dropped off the boys at a bar to watch the many football games, and we headed off to Nordstroms and Banana Republic for some much needed shopping therapy! There was a MAC Cosmetics counter and I purchased a new lip gloss! We picked up the boys, relaxed at Ang's parents house, long enough to catch the bad beginning of the Aggies' football game. Before dinner we were witness to the flying of the bats. If you don't know what I'm talking about there is this bridge called the Congress Bridge, where the largest colony of Mexican freetail bats live in the summer. They leave the bridge at dusk for feeding time where they eat over 37 thousand pounds of bugs a night. It was very cool to see, the only problem was that it was alittle too dark, and the smell was... well let's just say yucky!!! After that we ate dinner at The Salt Lick, a local BBQ place, and then experienced 6th Street, a local bar hang out where we sat on the second story balcony of the Iron Cactus and had a drink.
On Sunday we hung out and discussed the bad loss of the Aggies the previous day. We left at around 1pm to end our wonderful weekend.
(Pictures to come soon!)
Labels: travel
posted by Barb at 1:40 p.m.
1 Comments:
Oh, I love Austin! I'm glad you guys had fun. I can't wait to see some pictures.
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