Just the TWO of us! A few weeks ago my mom came for a visit! Horray! Let's hear it for mama. Chad and I took that opportunity to go down to Austin for four days. We stayed at the lovely Barton Creek Resort, which was so beautiful. It overlooks a golf course and is situated at the top of hill country. You all know my passion for walking and then when you add "Texas" mountains into the picture, pure nirvana. Chad indulged me and we went for walk/hikes every morning and even one late night where we walked around the golf course.
After we finished our daily activities that night we'd go for a walk or play some tennis and every night we made it to the pool to unwind. Thoroughly enjoyable I must say. For the activites we started the trip out in Fort Worth where we went to the Kimball Art Museum and then made our way over to the Museum of Modern Art. We both were huge fans of the modern art museum. Then we proceeded to have the worlds best ice cream cookie sandwich, still dreaming about it. Enjoyed some Italian food and then got on the road to Austin. Chad is excellent at finding great places to visit, fun things to do, yummy places to eat, etc. He is essential on any trip if it is to have every moment of fun squeezed out.
My strong suit is at the art of conversation. Chad was enraptured by me so much that we got to Austin in the blink of an eye. What can I say, we all have our strengths. That night we saw a theater production called Esthers Folleys. A lot of singing, dancing, but mostly irreverent comedy. Highly amusing. Afterwords we cooled ourselves down with Austin's most delicious ice cream. We participated in our first every food crawl where we went down to Lockhardt and ate BBQ at four different establishments. Don't worry we paced ourselves and had some ah-mazing grub.
We saw four different movies throughout the weekend that we wanted to see, went to the natural springs for a very cool dip (63 degrees to be exact). Had a ball ziplining, attempted to see the famous Austin bat swarms. Supposed there are millions of bats living underneath a bridge that come out in the summer months at dusk. We saw a couple hundred, still neat and the company was great! Of course I managed to get some shopping in while there. And last but not least the Segway tour! IT WAS SO FUN!! We looked like complete tools but we did not care, it was ridiculous amounts of fun. We had races, obstacle courses, and basically acting like a five year old for a couple hours. Highly recommend it and taking a weekend alone with your honey. Great time and memories!
Do you hear that? It's the school bell! Hip hip hooray. I'm trying to look on the bright side of it since I adore summer. Sleeping in, your own schedule, lots of fun activities, sleeping in, you get the picture. Last night we had our annual back to school feast, except the menu hardly resembled anything I would call a feast (Chad and I are both on diets, boo-hoo). We ate, toasted to the new school year and to each other. Talked about school, friends, working hard, being a loyal friend, looking out for each other and choosing the right in tough situations. I love this tradition and even when the menu is ho hum the kids still look forward to it.
