A Day In The Journey

But I just gotta say...Austin deserves this spot for a few days.

Yes, I know. But I really wanted to do it. hahaha So rather than stay at home for all of Easter Break, I'm spending a few days in Austin. The drive was...long. Actually, not all of it was long. It was actually a very nice drive, even though between Beaumont and Houston is just oh so boring. Houston itself just sprawls out forever, it seems. After about 30 minutes, you start to wonder if there actually is a boundary to Houston, or if it has somehow taken over all of southwest Texas in the night. Also, once you get to Houston you begin to see a trademark of Texas in general: flags. Seriously. Not just any flags, either, but the largest flags possible to be flown are generally flown. It's both awesome and slightly bonkers at the same time. Not only that, but if you see a super huge American flag, about 85% of the time it will be accompanied by an equally super huge Texas flag. I've seen more Texas state flags in the past two days than I think I've ever seen of my own state flag. It's kind of amazing.

After arriving yesterday, I spent some time catching up with my friend, then I had to roust out an Apple store. The reason for this was my complete ineptness at managing to grab my power cable when I grabbed my laptop. Yes. This mistake turned out to be more costly than I would have liked, but now I have a backup cable. Awesome. Since I was out, I decided to drive around downtown a little. This turned out to be moderately exciting due to the fact that it was dark. And I had really no idea where I was going, GPS notwithstanding. Fun touch: Marge has a British accent. Quite fun.

Today we went to church here. Humorous aside: my church in BR is also Crossroads Community Church. Weird. In the afternoon, we went to Zilker Botanical Gardens. It was quite a lovely walk, although more people-filled than I would usually like for such an excursion due to the Zilker Garden Festival that was happening. At any rate, the weather was perfect and the gardens a beautiful and calming way to spend the afternoon.

Tomorrow: downtown is to be tackled.