Day 29 - Beautiful, Beautiful Texas

Because Jeff had his real person job to get to early in the morning, Emma, Andy, and I slept in and headed downtown on our own. The day was somewhat overcast but Austin was still such a beautiful city. One thing that I didn't realize about Austin was that it was home to UT, the University of Texas. It's main campus starts just on the opposite side of the capitol building. When we were driving on the highway towards downtown I could see how enormous it really was.

We parked by some meter and headed towards the capitol. Austin seemed to be a small city. Downtown wasn't to overwhelming and it was easy to navigate because the street leading to the capitol extended along way past where downtown ended, resulting in a great one-point perspective type picture of the capitol.

The day way taken up by downtown and trying to relive our college days by walking through the UT campus. There were clubs advertising things, students in a mad rush not to be late for class, students talking about exams, people reading in the bookstore, and anything else that could spark a memory from only a year ago. Needless to say it made us all a little depressed.

We were all a little bit hungry so we walked to the first Whole Foods store in the country. That's right. An interesting fact about Austin is that Whole Foods got it's big break here. I was a little shocked about learning this myself. I didn't realize that meat-hungry Texans had an appetite for organic mashed potatoes and corn. Go figure.

We headed back to Jeff's apartment only to just pull in when Jeff was as well. We discussed our dinner plans and chose to go to a Thai place on the UT campus. It was large portions for cheap so it was right up our alley. After that we hit up downtown bars. There was one called the Ginger Man that Jeff really enjoyed and he said there were a lot of beers on tap. We stayed there for about two ours chatting, catching up, and had a great time. Unfortunately Jeff had another early morning the next day, so we couldn't stay out ALL night.

Sadly that was the last time we would be seeing Jeff before we left for San Antonio so we had to say our goodbyes. Thanks for the fun time Jeff!

Aramis

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