This year marks the best spring break I've ever had, and I didn't even leave Texas. This one goes in the history books. I left Friday night and got a little time with Alayna in Dallas. The next morning, on to the 'rents house in Winnsboro for a little country rest. Had a GREAT time with mi Mama! We got to catch up, walk in the woods, get our nails done, and watch our stories. They were even great sports about letting me shovel a veggie smoothie into their systems.
Wednesday rolled around and the Orthodontist did NOT give me the 100% certainty that my braces would be off in April, which is going back on his pinky promise, but I'm going to start doubling up on my rubber bands every moment I'm not at school to ENSURE these puppies are off before school gets out. Want. These. Off.
Back to Austin late Wednesday afternoon and had no idea just how much fun awaited me. Three guests came to stay with us Wednesday night; Terry, Ginny, and Ashley. Terry rented a convertible for a few days and was sweet enough to take us around town!
Here is my terrible motion shot with the ole 3G...
We met Randy, Alex, and TM at the Luster Pearl to see Local Natives!!
The next morning we took Ashley to her first paddle board on Town Lake....
My country girls love their BBQ so we went to the Salt Lick...
And here's a picture with Ter-Bear, we made sure to not get ANY pictures together on this trip. At all. None.
We got to see Thao with the Get Down Stay Down at Antones!! This was probably my favorite show, I just love her....she broke out into Ludacris halfway through one of her songs...Terry knew every word...(faint)...
Another favorite was Gregory Alan Isakov at Maggie Mae's Gibson room. We got comfy chairs for this one, and Darby made besties with the violin player. Some song about "I'll feed your horses".... so good. I need to buy that tonight.
Terry found CAMEL RIDES FOR FIVE DOLLARS. It was the most brilliant idea he could have had. Wajiha was coming back from visiting Pakistan, you know, the middle east...and we decided to ease her back into western culture with a camel ride when we picked her up from the airport. HAHA. And it cracked me up because Wajiha got on and the camel posed proudly, I got on the camel didn't do anything, Terry gets on...and the camel lets out the roar of a dying lamb. Hilarious.
My biggest regret ever in life to date is not getting more pictures this week. I'm a wanna-be photographer for Pete's sake! We had so many more fun memories to capture too. Kayaking where we lost and found masks and gopros and turtles, sxsw shows, dinners with friends, Saxi Taxi the smoothest ride in town, snow cone talks, Unicycle Football, Jumpoline Park backflips and races, dirty swimming pool jumps, wine and cheese at Alex's til 4am, 2.5hr taxes, disc-golf consistency, living room dance lessons, T-Love raps. Just a gorgeous, and wonderful week.
It's been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.
Spring is here.
I leave you with a gem we found at sxsw:
