Texas for swimming....and Eatin !!

Great time at the University of Texas for Laura and Emily's swim meet.  This is the sectionals

Yes, thats right we were there for swimming, but the food was first in the minds of the gals.  Somehow we ended up at this weird donut shop called Voodoo donuts..Leave it to Laura to find such a place.  Ya see, the tables were all lined with obituaries, how morbid.  I guess everyone raved about how great the donuts were, as you can see they all look a little weird.  I had the banana fritter.  We come from a donut mecca so everything else is a disappointment i suppose.  

     One of the days we ended up doing the touristy thing and taking a horse drawn carriage around the streets of  Austin.  That was really neat.  The downtown in Austin was very nice and we even found a hat store where i could go in and buy myself a nice old cowboy hat.  yeeee haw.  laura and emily both got hats and shirts for themselves and for the little ones at home too.

and then there was some great eating at Stubbs Barbecue restaurant.  Lyn noticed the place because her father used to buy this Barbecue sauce and she said we should give it a look.  It was in a questionable area but my oh my was it some good food.  They had some types of people that you would expect to find in a rowdy Texas bar on a Saturday night but the ribs were finger licking good....yeeee hawww!!!

We went into the hills (well, closest thing to the hills they have) of Austin.  Thats where the upper class lives.  They has some really nice houses up there.

    

     And what is a trip to Texas if you dont go to the In-n-out burger.  I'd never heard of it but i guess its a bucket list kind of place for kids nowadays

Now this place....eeeee doggie was is good.  Rich had told us about going to the Salt Lick Barbecue place and after driving a little off the beaten path, well, quite a bit.. we pulled up into an area that was packed with cars and people.....It was out of the blue and the place had an hour and a half wait.  Alot of people travel quite a distance to get here and it was surely worth it.  I"d be fixing to go back next time i'm in these parts..yeee hawwwas

There is quite a lovely state house i reckon

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Guess where we went today

     Ohhhh, how nice is it that when i ask them if they want to go to Black Gordon they both excitedly jump in the car and say lets go!!!  So we piled up with snow all aroud us and brought the football and thew it around and they happily posed in front of our old friend.

     Jack was trying to be cool with his one handed catch.  Of course he is very cool!!!

    Smiles all around in the Train that doesn't move.  Ring that bell and yell 'fares please'

Meet weekend

 Catherine had her gymnastics meet on Friday in Boston.....I just love watching her compete...she is so confident....and she has so much fun with her teamates!!!

      On Friday, Saturday and Sunday Laura had the New England Age groups in Worcester.  Its so tough on the swimmers because once you qualify for the Age groups(which is no easy task, but more on that later), you race in different events.  If you finish in the top of the event, you then have to come back at night for finals and race all over again in that event.  Laura reached the finals on all three nights......

     After Sunday nights finals she wanted to go to Moe's for some grub.  I've never gone there before so i had to overeat and try it out.....wow, it was good!!!