Austin Day 1

So we set out for our weekend adventure early Saturday morning, heading for Austin. We decided to break up the drive with a few stops along the way in West this tiny little town south of Dallas that has an amazing Czech bakery. Gotta try a kolache-yumm!

Then on to Waco, for a tour of the Dr Pepper Museum-one of our favorite things about Texas, there is Dr Pepper EVERYWHERE! And we were super excited that they sold caffeine free-yeah! And they still served from teh origianl soda fountain. We also stopped at the Texas Ranger Museum to pick up my dad a Birthday present and found this amazing old cemetery. It had been raining and I thought it was beautiful.


Then on to Austin, state capitol of TX, and home of live music. Once we dropped by the hotel we drove into the city and visited the capitol building and walked along the famous 6th avenue-guess what, it is pretty long. We found a yummy Mexican place to eat in this old restored warehouse and then to our surprise that evening the Congress Avenue strip was filled with fabulous old cars-turns out there was a car show that day-so we found a place to park and walked around taking pictures and enjoying the festivities.

Isn't Austin gorgeous! This is the greenest I have ever seen Texas!

The dome inside was so beautiful, this picture does not do it justice!

Here's me, 18 weeks pregnant.

The many shapes, sizes and colors of cars!

Alan wanted to take this one home!

Gotta love a Texas Hot Rod, I saw one with a lawn mower on top, but did not get a picture.

But let me tell you, I realized something today-I'm pregnant! I sure can't keep the pace I used to-I had to stop every so often to rest. I am sure it didn't help that it ended up being like 85 degrees that day as well! But it was fun. I slept so well!!