This is my other family in Austin. Poppy and Stan Hodge. they are just like a brother and sister to me.
This is the O'Henry House. My uncle took me here when I was only about 7 or 8 years old and I rememnber that he wanted to buy me a book. I really didnt have any interest in the book at the time but since have come to love the stories taht O'Henry told so it was neat to go back again in a different mindset to experience it again.
The Driskill Hotel is a very fancy hotel built in the late 1800's. It was owned by Driskill who lost it in a card game... wouldn't it be interesting to know who held what cards when the last person called?
Some Stained Glass inside of the Hotel. Pretty amazing work!
This is probably one of the most historic and well known places in Texas. The Alamo! Contrary to popular belief there is no basement in the Alamo but there are thousands of ways to prepare corn, none of which I will tell you about right now. If you need some ideas, please contact Kaye, I seem to remember her having a large coffee table book about the delectable vegetable.
The Riverwalk. As always this is a very pretty place and a favorite place to visit.
How could I go to Texas and not see Bevo? For those that don't know who Bevo is the picture should explain it all.
Lance Armstrong, probably one of the greatest athletes to every compete, has a bike shop about 12 blocks from the hotel that I stayed in. Most of you know that I love cycling and to get the opportunity to go to this bike shop was really neat. Lance just finished 29th in the Tour Down Under in Australia and shipped his bike to the shop. I was lucky enough to get to see and touch it and take some pictures with it. The other bike is his team bike that he will be riding this year with team Astana. He will be using a combination of these bike as well as a few more during the season and hopefully in the 2009 Tour De France for an unprecedented 8th tour win!
The whole trip was great and I did learn some great things at the conference as well. Other than the pictures shown we went to the capitol building, Ironworks BBQ, 6th street to see some really interesting people, SOCO, my old house and a ton more. We were tired by the end and ready to come home but I was glad taht we made the effort to see all of the great things taht there are to see in Austin and Texas.
6 comments:
Wow, I'm impressed. You and Kristi do so well at visiting lots of cool sites when you go on trips. We, on the other hand, are so boring that we go somewhere and don't venture out from the hotel other than to go to the pool. Boo. Glad you had a fun trip!
that was such a fun post! a little trip down memory lane for more than yourself. you really crammed a lot in! i like your red shirt.
Texas is awesome. Nice Bevo picture. No Leslie pic????Probably too ugly to put on a blog :)
I'm jealous. Next time I'll go with you! Glad you had fun babe.
I love the riverwalk. I'll miss many things about texas. ): luckily we'll get to come back often since we'll still have a lot of family here.
Yeah, but why isn't there a basement in the Alamo? There are thousands of ways to prepare corn, all of which I will tell you about right now!
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