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.
The start of the long weekend began with a move. I didn’t document any of it. As you can imagine though moving is never fun. It was way hotter at 9 in the morning than it should have been so that just made it all the more exhausting. The bulk of the moving went pretty quickly but we were all pretty tired and sweaty. It’s a bit of a funny move since my me and my roommate’s lease ends this month, Walker and I fly out on the 31st, and he also has to move out of his place. So we all worked it out so that my roommate would move into Walker’s place (where I will also be staying until I head to Michigan) and take over his lease. So we moved both her stuff and my stuff into Walker’s one bedroom apartment where he still had quite a bit of stuff himself. It was, and still is, pretty crazy at his place. There are boxes and bags everywhere! It’s a little stressful to have all your belongings so strewn about, especially when you’ve got to pack for a trip to Seattle. I tried as best I could to pull things out I thought I would need.
It would seem after the majority of our things were moved things overall would be less stressful but no. We still had a huge pile of goodwill donations, garbage, recycling, more things to move that we were still using, and lots and lots of cleaning. Oh yeah and a desk I still haven’t dealt with. ugh. It’s slowly been getting done over the weekend along with activities here and there for Walker’s last weekend in town. Luckily we have some pretty great friends that helped us clean on Saturday and that made it go by more quickly and made it more enjoyable.
Anyhow on Friday after we had accomplished quite a bit I geared up to head to a happy hour that had been planned. We went to Easy Tiger downtown, a place I’ve been wanting to go for a long time. They have ping pong, a beer garden, sausages, cheese, and bread. Um yum! It was nice to relax with friends after an exhausting morning. I was a little sleepy but I pulled through and had a great time. After happy hour we headed to a favorite tex-mex place per Walker’s request and continued the fun. Oh how I’ll miss these Texas nights.
The timing seemed quite right when just a week before my roommate and I move out (still a month before I leave Austin, so yeah I get to move 2 times) a friend of Katie’s (roommate) came to visit. Before he moved we would get together and share our love of food. It was something I always looked forward to. So with him in town I couldn’t resist the suggestion that we do a little dinner party.
The food was a bit more random than other parties we’ve had but we enjoyed it no less. We ate cheeses (even a freshly made ricotta), some meats, roasted carrots, stuffed peppedews, fruit and nuts with honey, and fig spread with bread. The honey, I should mention,was rather unique as it was put into the container you see by the bees themselves. Not just the honeycomb but the actual container. Pretty cool huh? I had been waiting for just the right time to try it. It was obviously a hit!
A little later on we had a blind gin tasting since we realized we had 3 different kinds of gin in our house. Weird. I was the only one to get guess all 3 correctly. Hmm… Then I brought out the fruit and mint mini frozen pops I made. The could have been sweeter but I enjoyed them.
