11/21/12 We arrived to the city of Austin after a long drive from New Orleans, where we were promptly greeted by my dear friend Sara!!! We settled into her apartment, chatted and caught up while sitting on her roof deck overlooking Austin.
We then proceeded to an unbelievable meal of sushi at "Kenichi" and ended the night with live music. 11/22/12 We awoke on thanksgiving morning and we started the day with a beautiful run around the river in Austin, the trail was packed with people getting their exercise in before a big thanksgiving meal. Afterwards, we headed to the Rodell's house to help Sara and her family finish cooking thanksgiving dinner. All turned out great and it was a delicious thanksgiving meal with our surrogate Texas family.
After we filled ourselves with turkey and all the yummy sides, we headed into Austin to tailgate at the UT vs. TCU game. Hook 'em horns!
The University of Texas (Austin) stadium holds about 110,000 people! Those Texans do not mess around when it comes to football! It was amazing to see all the devoted fans and their pre-game set-ups!
11/23/12 Friday after thanksgiving Sara took Alex and I on an awesome tour of Austin, we started the day with a much needed yoga class at "Black Swan Yoga" and then rented mountain bikes and biked the greenbelt trail around Austin....very cool and we stopped for a Texas lunch at "Tacodeli", which was yummy!
We continued our day with a walk around Austin before heading back to the Rodell's for party time!
Such a great time with the Rodell's, a big thanks to them for having us over the holiday weekend! We loved Austin and that certainly had much to do with our wonderful hosts!
11/24/12 Our last day in Austin we continued our bike tour of the city and strolled the streets of South Congress, meandered through funky stores (one with more cowboy/girl boots than we had ever seen in our lives!), and stopped for a coffee before enjoying our last lovely dinner with miss Sara and then listening to a great concert by "The Wood Brothers" at the Parish in downtown Austin.
A great way to end our fabulous and memorable visit to Austin! And we are off to Marfa Texas!
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