Living it up in Austin

Our shopping trip on Thursday to San Marcos proved to be a big hit, admittedly not tax free but a whole lot of cheapness was going on!! Our favourite shop was Ralph Lauren!! Judith met her husband to be there.. to be honest i don't think the feeling was overly mutual!! Abercrombie and Fitch was a MAJOR DISAPPOINTMENT!! we also had our first taco bell which was really quite lovely!!

The rest of thursday was spent travelling to Austin, the capital of Texas it seems as i just learnt today.. we did experience a little rain, however our hotel made up for it! The crown plaza has been home for the past two nights, it has been a little more expensive than our other stop overs but its very classy and we do feel right at home.

Today we missed the luxury of having free breakfast.. here at the plaza it costs 9 dollars, so we opted for a cheap snack in town!! we hit downtown Austin and started off at the Tom Bullock History of Texas museum which had a delightful exhibit of the restoration of the governors mansion which burnt down in 2008. it also held an exhibit on the story of austin from before it was a state and was taken over by the mexicans - this was less interesting to the likes of me! we then went to state capitol which is kinda like stormont, but with no big Ian, although on like a bigger scale.. we also sat in on some school debate thing in the senate which was a bit weird.

we spent the rest of the afternoon on foot in the scorching heat, which was not cool. ooohh we also went to the university of Texas Austin and got our tan topped up further.. we then went to the texas longhorns football stadium and bought ourselves some t-shirts but the tours were closed which was rather unfortunate but judith proved an educated guide - her immense knowledge courtesy of wiki is quite astonishing.

after a quick stop at the hotel we went to congress avenue bridge at dusk. this was quite a treat for judith much to my distaste. i was more worried about the large dragonflies flying around my head and feet and the bats getting stuck in my hair. there also was a family beside us whom judith is now annoyed that she can not figure out which wife belonged to which husband and who was sister and brother.! she says its a mcmullan thing to do!



oh and the picture is me standing beside the statue of liberty - judith says the real one is in new york!

time is ticking on and so tomorrow we are moving on up to dallas and then heading out of Texas. We have our wheels until Friday and so we need to keep moving if we ever want to get to Dollywood!!