An Austin oddity, we visited this place today and it was a fun/weird/creepy way to kill some time. There are shrunken heads, skeletons, big foot impressions, two-headed taxidermied animals, movie monster models, a giant lizard, hissing cockroaches, and a bit of a carnival freakshow to wrap it up. Blockhead Benny puts his foot in a raccoon trap, his tongue in a mousetrap, a giant nail in his nose, and fish hooks in his lower eyelids. Connor, of course, loved it. This pics are not great as the lighting was bad, but you'll get the idea. Weird was had by all.
For breakfast today we visited Austin's Gourdoughs. I'd heard about this silver Airstream trailer donut purveyor from my friend Kristen and we'd scoured the online menu. They make these incredible things to order while you wait--a wait that is so worth it. We chose the 6 we just had to taste and the four if us could only eat about half of everything. We had:
Flying Pig
Old Dirty Bastard
Funky Monkey
Mother Clucker
Black Out
Dirty Berry
The Flying Pig was the best of these beauties that are the size of salad plates. If you are in Austin this place is an absolute must. Don't forget your insulin.
Connor has lost three teeth in two days. It's disturbing. They're falling like dominoes. The tooth fairy better figure out where we are tonite or there will be repercussions!
The boys and I spent the whole day at the Westin La Cantera's Lost Quarry Pool while Bob played golf. It was a great and relaxing day. Connor is pretty self-reliant and I pretty much let him run free. Connor is also turning the corner a bit and he was happy playing in the small walk-in pool with other kids while I watched. We would have stayed until dark except for the big thunderstorm that rolled in at 5pm.
Great day.
On our first full day in Texas we headed to Blanco -- a small town 45 miles NW of San Antonio-- for their lavender festival. Blanco is the self-described "Lavender Capital old Texas.
I have a lavender problem and it needed to be addressed.
The festival itself was nice. About 75 -100 artisans, lavender purveyors, vineyards, etc on the grounds of the old courthouse. I purchased lavender honey (which I've wanted FOREVER and hemp lavender mint lotion. (It's Hemp History Week! Who knew? Free the hemp!)
After that we headed to Hill Country Lavender Farms so that I could see those big purple mounds of blooming beauty. Uh....not so much. It was disappointing. The lavender in my front yard is more glorious.
No matter. It was fun to go to the boondocks and buy local products.
And it all smelled fantastic! There were purple potties, lavender ice cream, lavender lemonade, lavender cookies and a bison head with a lavender bow.
