So, funny story, I was really thinking of applying to UT-Austin. I'd filled out the entire application and it was just waiting to be sent. I think there was no application fee, I have no idea why I didn't send it, something about the fact that I couldn't see myself EVER living in Texas... life is silly like that.
I tell this funny intro story because this weekend I took a roomie (+Logan, our gay sailor navy friend) hipster road trip to AUSTIN! I loved it so much. If it were 20 degrees colder all of the time I would 100% be moving to Austin in a hot second.
We all dressed up as hipsters and set out to Austin on Saturday at about 11. I was looking super artsy and different in my sleeveless hoodie, Nike kicks, and scarf in over 100 degree weather. We stopped at the outlet mall on our way out of town to get Sarah some poppin' dancin' clothes and super cute shoes and we were stopped by a saleswoman who said- "You guys are so stylish, I wish I could dress like that all the time", the only I could think is.. "I want to tell her the truth..". But it was so fun to have a theme day. Some of my favorite days of high school was when I dressed up in a ridiculous fashion with amigos.
Then we got to Austin and checked into La Quinta Inn and dropped our stuff and went to 'splor in Austin. We checked out the Museum of the Weird and Bizarre, in which we saw several mummies and shrunken heads of various nature. This was very strange and mostly fake but it was so cool because we saw a HUGE lizard, it was one of the bigger reptiles I'd ever seen. Then we went to Tears of Joy, a place filled to the brim with hot and Tabasco sauce. Since my room mate Emily is obsessed with Tabsco, we just HAD to go! I myself am not a huge fan of the hot stuff, so I settled down with some free chips and some Southwest cook books, it was a challenge to restrain myself from buying several. Then Logan tried this concentrated hot stuff extract and it brought tears of not joy, but pain to his eyes. It was apparently super super hot and he only had a little bit on a toothpick. We got to talking to the woman at the register whose name was Joy (get the name of the restaurant now!), she owns the restaurant and claimed to be almost 67 but she stayed young through a lot of hot sauce consumption. After our hot sauce fest, we ventured to the Austin river walk. This is a small little river of trickling water, which you could hop across and had rocks throughout it, so we took a lot of hipster pics. Next we went to this absolutely amazing burger joint, Casino al Camino. My burger was literally as large as my head! Then we went back to La Quinta and got ready to go out. We all were fancied up and we went to an 80s night club, a gay bar, and a Bat Bar. Many adventures were had and inside jokes formed. I took my first ride inside a pedi cab and went inside a food truck and a room filled with rainbows in the gay bar. Austin nightlife/ just 6th street nightlife was amazing and almost no places had any cover. The people were so fun to talk to
After a long, long, long sleep-in in the morning, watching Eclipse and some hotel breakfast we took off from La Quinta Inn. We went to this amazing amazing amazing Thai Food from a food truck and delicious cake balls! Then we drove home, it was about an hour drive and I will definitely be making that trip multiple times for the rest of the year. I also decided that maybe coming home from Texas I will do a real real road trip and stop at exciting places, not just do the straight 20 hours.
All in all it was a lazy Sunday. Apartment cleaning, nail painting, grocery shopping, nothing big. Exciting news is sure to come tomorrow since I will be finding out what school I will be placed at and who my team mates will be, which determines about 99% of the CY experience. I AM SO EXCITED. I know where ever I'll be it will be amazingly fun and a memorable year of service. And really when it comes down to it, I am here for the kids. And kids need help errywhere.
Daily Hero: The fact that Texas is so wonderfully diverse and each city has such a different vibrant personality. Also the fact that Austin is such a short easy drive.
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