Andy, Laila, Lainie and I are on another family vacation! This will be a three part post due to all the excitement we will be having! Really, it's so i don't forget anything that happened each day! :) Today we headed to Austin, TX! After the four hour car ride, we finally made it. Along the way, we made a quick pit stop at a highway flea market! It was an interesting stop, but will pass on the 99 degree, dust filled flea market next time!! Plus, it was hard to manover around with a 2 1/2 year old, walking in Sleeping Beauty high heals and trying to touch everything! Ice cream was a must after all that! Next to the flea market was gas station who had just that! While on a mission to get our treats, an older gentleman walked up to Laila (she was wearing her high heals, a dress and her movie star sunglasses) and told her she was purrrrtier than a picture and called her Miss Hollywood! Laila was sooo happy, it made her day!! I could tell this was going to be a good trip!
Arriving into Austin, our next mission was to find a hotel. Yep, we didn't book a hotel! The last vacation we booked, we ended up spending to much time getting to and from the hotel. So we decided to wait until we got to Austin to check out the area! Being the mom I am, i took it upon myself to look up a couple hotels before we left, just in case! So glad I did, because we could of been driving around looking for hours! An exact 2 hours was spent looking, with nothing avaliable or to expensive!! If only a certain someone, who i won't name :) would of taken my advice and went to the hotels on my list! Hmmm, where are we sleeping tonight???? At one of my picks!! Elizabeth-1, Andy-0! After getting settled into our hotel, we went to check out The University of Texas! Who knows, maybe one of the girls will go here someday!! So we had to take their picture infront of the campus!!! Someday if they do decide to go here, we will have a picture of when they were little!!
After driving around the quiet campus, checking out the huge stadium, we decided to go downtown to take on the crowd and food! Now the crowd was not 1-2 years of age! More like 21 and ready to party! Andy and I thought to ourselves, we can't be that old, but our little ones reminded us that we were! Those were the days!! :) Throughout our walk we passed many interesting bars! One sign outside a bar read, "Dogs are welcomed, but kids must be leashed" guess we couldn't go in there!! We did end up finding a wonderful Mexican restaurant!! The girls sat so nice and actually ate everything!! Laila must of been happy, as she kept jumping up and down in the booth! It will be interesting how everything will look in 16 years if they do decide to go to school here!
After supper, we had to have our sweets!! We passed a sign earlier that read fried ice cream! Anyone who knows Andy, knows he LOVES the Taco Shops fried ice cream in Fargo, ND! So we were on a mission to tickle our taste buds with a great treat! Sadly, we were not impressed! The fried ice cream was the size of a medium egg and hardly fried. How much you ask was this amazing ice cream! $5.00 for one! Ouch!! Taco Shop, we miss you! After our spendy sweet treat, we made our way back to the car and headed back to the hotel! What a day! But a fun day!! Sunday, we plan on going to the zoo and on a duck tour ride around the city! Til then!!! EN
P.S. the high for today in Austin, TX was 101 degrees! Our car therm. read 111!! Crazy!! Not sure if we are cut out for this temp.!!!
Arriving into Austin, our next mission was to find a hotel. Yep, we didn't book a hotel! The last vacation we booked, we ended up spending to much time getting to and from the hotel. So we decided to wait until we got to Austin to check out the area! Being the mom I am, i took it upon myself to look up a couple hotels before we left, just in case! So glad I did, because we could of been driving around looking for hours! An exact 2 hours was spent looking, with nothing avaliable or to expensive!! If only a certain someone, who i won't name :) would of taken my advice and went to the hotels on my list! Hmmm, where are we sleeping tonight???? At one of my picks!! Elizabeth-1, Andy-0! After getting settled into our hotel, we went to check out The University of Texas! Who knows, maybe one of the girls will go here someday!! So we had to take their picture infront of the campus!!! Someday if they do decide to go here, we will have a picture of when they were little!!
After driving around the quiet campus, checking out the huge stadium, we decided to go downtown to take on the crowd and food! Now the crowd was not 1-2 years of age! More like 21 and ready to party! Andy and I thought to ourselves, we can't be that old, but our little ones reminded us that we were! Those were the days!! :) Throughout our walk we passed many interesting bars! One sign outside a bar read, "Dogs are welcomed, but kids must be leashed" guess we couldn't go in there!! We did end up finding a wonderful Mexican restaurant!! The girls sat so nice and actually ate everything!! Laila must of been happy, as she kept jumping up and down in the booth! It will be interesting how everything will look in 16 years if they do decide to go to school here! 
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