Woke up outside of Dallas after a great time catching up with the Lazoroski's minus the mystery husband. We left this morning keeping the mystery of Ellen's husband alive and kicking. Of course we had to get them to send a corny message to Dad back in NY. Thanks so much for having us and as mom says it now feels like summer cause she got to see Ellen and the kids. Thanks so much guys! 
We headed south on I-35 towards Austin. Got to drive right by Dallas, even spotting a Santandar building (which only makes you chuckle if you worked with me at Sovereign in Rhode Island). No hard feelings Mom didn't get why I was laughing either. Highways in Texas are these strange beasts that are like 8 lanes wide and millions of on and off ramps. It's nothing like we are used to in the north.
We finally made it to Austin by mid afternoon and decided to head right to 6th street where apparently all the bars are. Not so interesting at 2:30 on a Sunday. Would probably be more exciting on a weekend night but alas got some "Austin is Weird" t-shirts and laughed at some of the names of the bars. Including the following "Peckerheads Pizza"... had to be a tourist and take a pic. Love the name!
Also thanks to Ellen we got to try Shiner beer, which is brewed in Texas and is actually quite delicious. Mom and I grabbed a 6 pack tonight and I'll be grabbing a few cases to bring back up north before we leave Te-has. Funny story of the day, Mom and I decided to grab a pizza and some beers to have in the hotel tonight instead of having chain food for dinner. Well we decided to go to Walmart for the beers. Holy Texas Scariness! Not only was it Walmart (which is scary enough) but apparently it was tax free weekend and maybe school starts tomorrow?! because there was a shit load of people at the Wonderful World of Wally this evening. On top of that stereotypes abound at Walmart. Obese in the north does not hold a flame to obese down here. Anyhoo, glad to hear from some peeps that they are enjoying the seeing the pics and reading about our trip. Will keep posting!
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