Well we are a month into Austin – that was fast!
We kept the fun rolling from the first few weeks, albeit at a slower pace, and decided to get our music in with some My Morning Jacket at the Austin Music Hall.
The venue had a good vibe and when the band played “Wordless Chorus” the audience came alive – it was memorable for sure and we’d see them again just to relive that moment.
The rest of the weekend was shaping up to be kind of a bust with Hurricane Patricia dumping buckets of rain on Texas. But yeh, no, rain aint ruining our party! It didn’t in the mountains of Colorado and it sure as shit won’t in Texas.
We hit up the Violet Crown Cinema – which was official – to watch “The Martian”. The theater has huge comfortable seats and, even better, a stocked beer and wine bar where you can buy food and drinks to chill on while watching your flick.
Life is good
And of course what would an Austin blog post be without a cameo from Wally. It’s actually kind of funny how this guy finagled his way into three blog posts so far. He’s the man though; he’s like 80 and is in better shape than most 30 year olds we know.
Wally also knows every inch of the Austin outdoors and took us to Zilker Dog Park with the pups and then Red Bud Isle Off Leash Area; a little peninsula jutting out into Lady Bird Lake (the CO River) where we randomly ended up at while canoeing two weeks prior.
The cherry on the cake: since Chica and Lilac love each other; Wally is our permanent dog sitter when needed.
Surprises, we love surprises! Alex sent Amy some Philly memorabilia. Thanks Alex! We miss all you people back home like crazy!
Halloween in Austin.
Only one word needed to describe it accurately: INSANE!
We started the night watching Philly’s own TU Owls fight the good fight against Notre Dame at Lavaca Street Bar – in full costume.
Some might argue I didn’t even dress up considering my role as Amy’s slave was cemented when we said our vows.
Since we had a hunch it would be wild on Dirty 6 we bought tickets for a show featuring DJ Thibault. As you can see from the first Halloween picture above, we were absolutely right. Place was a madhouse… damn, we must be getting old.
The music at the DJ show was awesome, but not enough people and energy showed up, hence the foray out to 6th Street. Funny thing is that once we saw the madness we scurried back to our mellow (relative) show – yup, we’re old.
After the fun we headed home and Chica seemed a bit confused.
Winding down the weekend we got some nice weather and decided to explore Austin.
The State Capitol