Home Again!

After a week of business meetings in California, I flew in & met Trae in Dallas for TX/OU weekend festivities.  Trae and I have a lot of great friends in Dallas and were glad to meet up with many of them Friday night & Saturday.  Trae & his guy friends tend to stick to winning traditions, so we've stuck to Primo's on Friday night & The Quarter Bar after dinner.  This time we added a stop to The House of Blues to watch a Michael Jackson impersonator show that had everyone's best moves coming out with MJ's classics.

With the game starting at 11 this year, it made for an EARLY wake up call so that we would have plenty of wax cup beer-time at the fair, plus the yearly Fletchers corny dog.  We avoided all the other fried goodies, including this years new fare: Fried BUTTER!  *yuck*  The weather was BEAUTIFUL and we were so glad that UT pulled out the win over OU!!

 

It was a great, busy weekend and I was SO glad to finally get home and resume our normal schedule today.

Wedding planning has slowed down a bit (Thank goodness!!) but we've done some fun things lately including our first "go" at registering.  More stories & pictures to come....

ACL 2009

This past weekend was Austin City Limits music festival at Zilker Park. ACL brings in 65,000 music lovers every year for a 3 day festival filled with Austin local artists, shops, restaurants and over 50 bands! Usually ACL falls on a Texas football weekend, so Trae had never attended the festival and was super excited! Friday was a great day: high 70's, blue skies and great music (think Kings of Leon, John Legend & Reckless Kelly). THEN on Saturday....the rain came. This made what WAS a lovely & dry festival, a wet and sewage-smelling mud festival.

BUT... the festival must go on!!! We still had a great time and came home relatively clean compared to some of the Woodstock-wannabe's diving into the Dillo-dirt. Yep "dillo-dirt". Google it. It's the sewage & compost based dirt that the hippie Austin planners used in Zilker park to grow the lovely grass that quickly disappeared when it rained and 65,000 people danced on it. YUCK.

After it's all said and done, Trae and I decided that we will continue going to ACL....when its not raining. :) We had a GREAT time jamming out to bands we love and finding new bands we will add to our IPod. Also, we got the opportunity to hang out with some friends in town just for the occasion!!!