Jesse and Dory have arrived in Austin! Queue a long weekend of site seeing, gluttony, and oh yeh, Eagles Football in Dallas!
For some icing on that cake, the crew arrived just in time to celebrate Chica’s second birthday and we had a party.
We all worked up an appetite after raging at Bartholomew Park and hit up the Chi’lantro food truck parked on the University of TX campus before heading to the Spider House Café to watch Turkuaz jam out.
We had no idea who this band was, but they were incredible! We will absolutely see them again when they come around next time.
Our plan for a Friday tour in Austin was to hit Barton Springs which is a three acre natural hot spring within Austin’s incredible Zilker Park.
Unfortunately, because of the flooding the previous weeks, the Springs were closed and we super bummed.
Not to worry though, we drowned our sorrows in food for the remainder of the day hitting up Bangers and Torchy’s Taco’s for lunch and dinner respectably. We were so into the food we forgot to take pics!
After our dinner we rolled out to 6th street for a night on the town traversing between dives and the swanky landmark Driskill Hotel where fancy beverages – including the age old Shirley Temple – were imbibed.
Most of the time drinking too much can be a bad thing, but with this crew’s love of good food, it only served as a soaking agent for all the food we would consume.
Dory, being the connoisseur he is, came to Austin with multiple solid food requests including Juan in a Million.
This is a hole in the wall with absolutely BOMB breakfast tacos; I have a feeling we’ll be back for another taste before our time in Austin is up.
One item we needed to cover was to get the boys onto Lady Bird Lake (CO River) to check out the natural beauty along with the borderline ridiculous houses in the area. A little walking was definitely in order after the Juan in a Million experience.
After taking it in, we headed back to the house to digest a little more before our dinner reservations.
Back to Lamberts!
This place is so good and to top it off there was live music happening right in the upstairs dining room. Austin we love you for that!
With all of us experiencing a severe food coma after thoroughly stuffing our faces with BBQ, and a long day coming up for the Eagles game, we decided to take it easy and hit up a comedy show.
We basically rolled our way from the restaurant to The Velveeta Room to watch what turned out to be a great bit performed by Jeremy Essig.
Game Day!
Ahhh Sunday has arrived and we are ready for some football!
The drive from Austin to Dallas is about three hours with a magical spot about half way through called the Czech Stop that serves incredible Kolaches.
If you don’t know what Kolaches are, it’s basically your choice of meat with incredibly fluffy doe wrapped around and it is heaven. We would stop back there on the way back down to Austin.
When we arrived in Arlington and parked up, my camping gear was repurposed for tailgating; needless to say, we were prepared.
The only thing better than the great weather and bangin’ bison burgers were the hoards of Eagles fans roaming the parking lots of AT&T stadium. The fear of getting stabbed – while still ever present – was greatly diminished.
Sooo, we decided to show our hosts some authentic Philly love.
After the Eagles came up with a BIG overtime win we proceeded to shame our host stadium even more.
At this point with a rough loss at home, you would think an honorable guest would humbly depart, but Philly fans are not honorable. We are rabid fans, uncompromising fans and when we win, we like to celebrate!
Celebrate the Eagles fans did.
You’d think this was the Linc!
Arriving back in Austin Monday evening, the trip was winding down and we were still ecstatic that the Eagles put on such a show! We kept it easy that evening with some BBQ at Café Mueller which didn’t disappoint.
The morning Dory and Jesse were departing, the last thing that needed to be done – of course – was eat! We hit up Torchy’s on the way to the airport and indulged!
Great weekend, amazing friends! Thanks for coming guys!