Eating our way through Austin

I don't know if I've ever mention to you all that I love Texas.  I spent many a summer there as a child.  My grandparents got divorced right after I was born and my grandfather moved to San Antonio so for the first 8 or so years of my life I spent my summers in Texas with him, my great grandmother and a slew of extended family.  They were really great summers.  Ever since he died I haven't been back. 
A couple of years ago, two of our closests friends Eric and Armando decided to move to Austin, both my sister and Teresa have visited them since but being that I was always in a long distance relationship at the time and spent so much of my time and money already traveling I never did.  Until now.  I don't know what took me so long.  I had such a great four days.  Here is our trip in pictures and captions, like I used to do, I'm getting nostalgic so close to my Blogoversary.

This sexy stallion was sitting next to us at the airport while we waited for our flight

Eric loving up some cornbread at the South Congress Cafe on our first day there in between our insane thrift spree

Austin is famous for delish food from trailers and I mean delish, they line the streets and are so worth stopping at

We were convinced that guy was Tom Petty's son

Some amaze-balls street art

Eric and Mandy at Barbarella, the best dance party in Austin. And the guys aren't half bad ;-)

Oh Gourdough's you stole my heart, 3 am donut run.  Yes please!

Teresa says I look like Gordie Laforge from Star Trek.  And yes she said Gordie.

 

 

 

 

Part of the Gordough's Menu.  Tell me this isn't heaven in a trailer.

The Flying Pig.  Vickie and Teresa each ate this one.

 

 

Teresa's first bite.

I had the Mama's Cake.  A Donut filled with Cake batter, covered in fudge.

Yum!

I'm afraid of heights y'all.

Sometimes I make the smexiest faces.

 

Re-enacting This is it, on the steps of the Capitol. 

The weekly specials.  Rainbow poop.  Yes thank you. 

Big top Candy.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Round Rock Donuts Coma.  Delish, so worth the drive and the ooey gooey-ness.

This was an amazing show, it was never before seen Dr. Seuss work it was a little hidden gem I stumbled upon and totally free!

There was a vampire shooting a video while we were eating dinner at the East Side Showroom a delish Steampunk influenced restaurent.  Highly recommended. 

With the BFF at the Salt Lick - 2 hour wait, kill me please!!

For those of you that don't know I recently went vegetarian, I thought that going on a trip to Austin was going to be monkey torture under the circumstances but I found that there was plenty of veggie and fish options for me pretty much everywhere I went with one giant exception.  The Salt Lick.  A 45 minute drive out to the boonies, a 2 hour wait for dinner, no fish on the menu and on a tiny bowl of au gratin potatoes later for dinner I was one ragining bitch but overall the trip was great.  The people were lovely, it was my kind of town.  I felt at home.  Truly at home, like I have never felt in Miami.  We miss Eric and Mandy even more now and wish we could be with them all the time, maybe in the near future, who knows.