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After driving over 800 miles through Texas and spending a night in both Austin and San Antonio, we are exhausted!  We stopped in Austin to stay with some of Kathleen’s relatives.  They showed us around town where, unfortunately, we weren’t able to see much due to the foggy weather – we saw a lot, just couldn’t see far.  We drove to the Congress Avenue bridge to see the largest urban bat colony but it was too cold for them to leave the comfort offered by the bridge.  And though we didn’t get to see any bats, we could easily smell them!

After the attempted bat viewing, we went to Chuy’s (pronounced Chewie’s) for a very good Tex-Mex dinner.  Chuy’s is a local chain with eclectic decorations and very good food.  We shared a chicken burrito.  For dessert, our hosts (Mark and Karen) insisted we try the tres leches cake.  It was very tasty and we ate way to much of it.  Next, we drove around and saw a bit of the University of Texas campus – the clock tower was lit up orange due to their big victory over the University of Nebraska to send them to the National Championship game just a day before – but its not really a National Championship unless there are playoffs!  Also, thanks Mark & Karen for taking us in for the night, showing us around town, and treating us to some of the great food that Austin has to offer!

The next morning, before heading to San Antonio, our hosts took us to breakfast.  Here, Kathleen ordered Breakfast Tacos and Will ordered Pecan Pancakes – both were delicious!  It was here where we heard one of our favorite quotes of the trip from a very picky man at the table behind us.

“What would you like, sir?” asked the waitress.

“I want eggs over easy but I don’t want no liquid.  And I want two pieces of toast, but I don’t want ‘em toasted” muttered the man.

“So, you want bread then?” asked the incredulous waitress.

The man responded, “I guess.”  And after his eating partner declined his request to share a waffle, “And I would like 1/2 a waffle please.”

All in all, it was quite a hysterical few moments listening to this guy place his breakfast order.

San Antonio, only 90 short miles from Austin, was one of our favorite cities on our trip.  It is a big city but the downtown doesn’t feel like it.  The Alamo was neat (Will was a bit disappointed); we loved walking around El Mercado – the largest Mexican market outside of Mexico; and we fell in love with the Riverwalk.  We walked around this all night and stopped at the various bars and restaurants along the way.  Each offering a different type of food and drink and all are located right along the waters edge…it was very very fun.

We checked out early to hit the road for the long drive to New Orleans, LA.  We left at 9 AM and didn’t arrive in N.O. until after 6 PM.  Tomorrow, we plan on walking around the French Quarter.  We are sad our trip is coming to an end, but we have had so much fun documenting our adventures on the blog.  We are glad everyone is enjoying it as much as we are.  And to those of you who haven’t signed the new “Guest Book” page, please do – we know you’re there since there are currently only 7 comments yet we’ve gotten over 150 hits since we created the page…

au revoir

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