#233 Austin Bound
2:08 PM
At the crack of dawn this morning, I woke up to only have to walk next door to my neighbor Melinda's house. We loaded up our luggage, and began our hour and half drive to the Charlotte airport. Amazingly, other than just my body feeling exhausted, I was wide awake.
We made it to Charlotte with plenty of time to spare, and grabbed a cup of Starbucks coffee to keep us pressing on. One flight later we'd landed in Austin a little early, and managed to grab us some amazing tacos at Torchey's Tacos.
We then quickly went and picked up Deepty from her new apartment in Austin. Crazy it took her moving halfway across the country for the three of us to do anything together. But thankfully this world is a little smaller due to planes and such.
We enjoyed walking around the Silos, wishing for too many items to take home, but too cheap to take home any. Instead we settled for a Magnolia Flour cupcake, and took it to the Dr. Pepper Museum a few blocks away.
On our way there, managed to walk past David Ridley from one of the episodes in Fixer Upper.
I talked way too loudly to Deepty about who he was, and he hollered out to us to confirm that was indeed him. So we managed to chat for a few minutes and find out he's now doing the Waco Tours in town.
The Dr. Pepper museum was cute, but quaint. Unfortunately no Dr. Pepper samples, but we did get to smell a lot of things for free, which really wasn't all that appealing.
Deepty needed to get back home, so we packed up after about 4 hours and journeyed on to her apartment again. Deepty nursed me to health with some Ginger Ale, and after an hour or so of talking with her and Siva, Melinda and I found some really good Chinese food. Really good.
Now for a night's sleep, because I am beyond exhausted.
We made it to Charlotte with plenty of time to spare, and grabbed a cup of Starbucks coffee to keep us pressing on. One flight later we'd landed in Austin a little early, and managed to grab us some amazing tacos at Torchey's Tacos.
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| Just outside of downtown Austin |
We then quickly went and picked up Deepty from her new apartment in Austin. Crazy it took her moving halfway across the country for the three of us to do anything together. But thankfully this world is a little smaller due to planes and such.
We headed down the road towards Waco, an hour and half drive. I was barely staying awake at the wheel, and Melinda ended up taking over driving since it looked like I was in complete zombie mode.
And then we were there.
We enjoyed walking around the Silos, wishing for too many items to take home, but too cheap to take home any. Instead we settled for a Magnolia Flour cupcake, and took it to the Dr. Pepper Museum a few blocks away.
On our way there, managed to walk past David Ridley from one of the episodes in Fixer Upper.
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| David Ridley with the Gaines |
I talked way too loudly to Deepty about who he was, and he hollered out to us to confirm that was indeed him. So we managed to chat for a few minutes and find out he's now doing the Waco Tours in town.
The Dr. Pepper museum was cute, but quaint. Unfortunately no Dr. Pepper samples, but we did get to smell a lot of things for free, which really wasn't all that appealing.
Deepty needed to get back home, so we packed up after about 4 hours and journeyed on to her apartment again. Deepty nursed me to health with some Ginger Ale, and after an hour or so of talking with her and Siva, Melinda and I found some really good Chinese food. Really good.
Now for a night's sleep, because I am beyond exhausted.
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