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The salt lick-oh my

January 18, 2013

I didn’t have any particular place in mind but when I was in Austin I was going to eat barbeque-somewhere. The day before I left I called my friend Katie to remind her of my arrival and she said they already had a trip planned to the Salt Lick to say goodbye to one of the grad students in her department. Perfect! The Salt Lick isn’t the best barbeque in Austin but it’s got the best atmosphere by far and honestly most of the time the best bbq is the bbq I’m eating at the moment.

We were with a group of about 15 physics students and I invited a few friends of mine along also we were quite the crowd. My friend made me a birthday cake and I was super excited because I told him how Walker wouldn’t let me put 29 candles on my cupcake so he brought 29 and lit it up! It warms my heart when friends do such nice things for me. I’ll have to do something extra nice with he and his girlfriend come to visit us here. Hehe.

-the cake maker

-the cakemaker’s girlfriend

-my friend Katie

-my birthday sparkling juice! (I would drink this every year on New Year’s but I couldn’t get a bottle in Seattle but I happened to have an older one in Austin that I left when I moved-my mom had mailed me 3 bottles last year since you can only buy it in Michigan-hahaha-oy!)

-29 candles!

-can I blow them all out at once?

-deep breath!

-yes I can!!

I just love my birthday month and I was so blessed to get to continue the celebration with friends!

Going away volleyball and bbq

May 31, 2012

Walker loves to play volleyball and was so excited to find a group to play with regularly a couple of years ago. He’s become a big part of the “team” as he rarely misses a Thursday game. Over the weekend they threw him a going away volleyball and BBQ. It was really sweet. I played some but it was hot and I was enjoying watching the volleyball dogs. Fitz the doxen is my favorite. We played until the sun went down and sadly said goodbye to some good friends.

A little Adventure!

November 29, 2011

Over the Thanksgiving weekend my boyfriend and I were able to get in a mini adventure. It was quite special since he doesn’t particularly like stopping a lot while traveling. We had driven a few hours out of Austin to visit his dad and on the way back is when we had our adventure!

We headed out about noon and took our first stop in a tiny town to check out a dance hall/restaurant. They were closed since it was the day after Thanksgiving but I made a declaration to come back and boogie. I can’t wait to come back, check out how cool it looks inside.

I figured if we couldn’t go in we should at least take a walk around the deserted block and be cute.

Then we headed a little ways down the road to get some delicious bbq. We made 2 stops actually so we could compare. Our eyes were much bigger than out stomachs so we had lots to bring back and enjoy later.

Then we headed on back to town. Our vacation over it was time for me to get back to work! Orders had been piling up while I was off tootling around.

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