I had planned a weekend in Austin with Menko for a while. We headed there Friday afternoon, checked into the loft we rented, and then hit the town! Our first stop was Guero's for some good TexMex and margaritas. We followed that up by drinks at Hotel San Jose. We were walking toward the lake and figured we were right on time to watch the bats. There's a bridge over the lake that houses over a million bats that fly out at dusk. It's amazing - the string of bats just never ends! We then walked to Rainey street for some drinks and a late night snack from a food truck.
On Saturday morning we walked to get in line for Franklin's barbecue. We had heard it was the best and were willing to get there at 8:45am to wait in line for the 11am opening. We were lucky enough to get some chairs and made friends with the guys next to us. The CVS next door made good money off of us since our group ended up buying 3 bottles of champagne and a bottle of orange juice! The brisket, pork ribs, and pulled pork was well worth the wait! The ribs were fall of the bone tender and the brisket was melt in your mouth yummy. After eating, we took ourselves on a walking tour of Austin checking out the capitol area and 6th Street on our way back home. After a mid-afternoon nap, we headed down to the 2nd Street area and went boutique shopping and hung out at a wine bar for dinner and drinks. We finished up the night at a place on 4th Street and made its own ice cream and had some adult milkshakes!
Sunday morning was sleeping in, brunch on South Congress, a little more shopping and then off to the airport. A really fun and much needed girls' weekend!
Matt's Weekend
I, on the other hand, planned a last minute trip to Chicago. In part to meet with a realtor to look at selling our condo, but also to hang with the guys, Patrick & Gil. After the awesomeness that was bow tie night at Jason's wedding, it was determined that the bowties had to make a comeback. A night of steaks, booze and bowtie ensued. I had gotten up at 3:30am on saturday for a 6:15 flight, and didn't get to sleep till well after 1am the next day. It was a fun and exhausting weekend.
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