A Visit from Colorado

Labor day weekend (two weeks ago, I know) Jeannette and Xavi came to visit us from Boulder. Yes, these are the same friends that were married in Alaska this summer, and they think we're special enough to deserve a second visit in the same summer! We had a great time; we don't get to see the sights of Austin (or central Texas, for that matter) much unless people come to visit us. The first day, we went to visit the Texas State Capital (see Jeannette and Xavi playing with a statue outside):


We also went to the Austin botanical gardens, where Jeannette and I unfurled our wings, and Tim, well, learned something:


These were both completely new to us, but we also caught some old favorites like Mt. Bonnell (a great overlook of Austin and the surrounding hill country), Rudy's barbecue (because no visit to Austin is complete without the "worst barbecue in Texas"), saw some live music at the Saxon Pub, saw the bats under the Congress Avenue bridge (see below...all of the blurry black spots are bats), and, of course, took a little visit to Central Market (Jeannette and Xavi were adequately impressed, and they even bought some Spanish chorizo, cheese, and some other unidentifiable Spanish thing to take back with them).


Sunday we took a jag down to San Antonio to see the missions and the Riverwalk; here's Jeannette and Xavi together at Mission San Jose:


All in all, we had a fantastic time. It's great to get to see and spend time with old friends, and it's always fun to show someone your hometown, even if its a relatively newly adopted hometown. Oh, and I have to thank Xavi for all of the photos; I couldn't find our camera to download my pictures before I started posting, so I used the pictures he took instead...