Thursday March 21st - Monday March 25th
Josh and I left for Texas on Thursday night, (he) drove through the night and we stopped in Las Cruces, NM just outside of El Paso Friday evening. Saturday we drove and drove and drove... on I-10 and were so excited to pull into my brother's place in Boerne about 5pm Saturday. It was a short but sweet visit as it always is no matter how many days I get to spend with everyone, it's never long enough. We went to dinner and then breakfast the next morning and it was off to Round Rock to spend time with my Mom. We played dominos and went to dinner, then Josh and I left to meet up with my good friend and old roommate Jennifer for a few beers and some catch up time. The next morning, Monday, my Mom had come down with a bug and was laid up sick ALL day and night :( Josh and I drove Indie into Austin and took him on a walk around Town Lake. It was a Gorgeous day! After dropping off Indie and checking in on my Mom, we headed back into Austin planning to meet up with my friend Natalie in the hip new Rainey Street neighborhood which I had not heard about until now. Love it! All these historic homes turned into bars with cool back yards that have tables and stages for live music and best of all, food trucks with awesome specials! On our way downtown, Josh and I were avoiding the start of 5:00 traffic so I drove us through some of my favorite Austin neighborhoods to avoid the highway and then zig zagged streets through downtown. That's when we stumbled up a structure that had once been some large building is now just half crumbled concrete walls with beautiful graffiti art. We climbed up and sat on a high spot and got to take in the beautiful late afternoon sun and a nice view of the capital and the UT tower. Apparently it's on the 365 things to do list, but I love that we found it accidentally :) click here to check out Baylor Street Art Wall. Natalie got stuck at work, but Josh and I very much enjoyed spending a quiet Monday evening on Rainey Street tasting local beers and meeting a really cool couple who convinced me that I'd actually like to check out SXSW one of these days...
Tuesday my Mom was on the mend but still weak so we met Natalie for lunch and then came back to the house to pack up our stuff and Indie and say goodbye to Mom :( Next stop: The Bashara's!
