We made it to Austin!

You may remember my blog about Frontier Airlines ruining our trip to Austin. Well, we finally got to take that trip. Luckily Frontier Airlines did wave the re-booking fee (I'm still very anti-Frontier) and we were able to re-book everything. We got into Austin on a Thursday and after checking into Marriott Springhill Suites we went to dinner at Magnolia Cafe. It was a very good 24 hour diner - the grilled vegtables are wonderful. After dinner we walked down South Congress Avenue, or SoCo as the locals call it, and checked out the fun, zany shops that they have there. On Friday we spent most of the day driving around neighborhoods (for those who don't know, we are re-locating to Austin this summer). We found a neighborhood that both Jim and I fell in love with. A nice, walkable community with lots of trees and beautiful houses and only 15 minutes from downtown. After lunch at a cafe we drove up to Travis lake and took a little walk. We finished the day with dinner at El Sol and La Luna mexican restaurant, which was very good. Saturday found us driving around neighborhoods again for most of the morning, eating good BBQ at Stubs, and walking around Zilker Botanical Gardens for most of the afternoon. It was so nice to be walking around a beautiful garden in short sleeves and shorts in November. We finished the night with dinner at Brick Oven pizza. Sunday we flew home. We didn't take many pictures because we did more driving around than anything but visit our gallery for the ones we did take. All in all we have a very favorable view of Austin and look forward to getting to know the city better.