JOHN - Pete, my good friend from when I went to ISU the first time, flew down from Chicago for a quick weekend visit. He's our first of hopefully many visitors. The weekend ended up being a blast and it went all went so quick. Good thing I had a plan because I wanted to make sure that we got everything in.
Friday night, Pete flew in and I picked him up around 9:30ish. We came back to the apartment and immediately went to the store to get some beer. We ended up picking up some Busch. But not just any Busch. We got Texas Busch. You'd have to see the cans to understand. We sat around and talked the rest of the night and got some sleep b/c we had a busy day planned on Saturday.
On Saturday, the plan called for us to head to Austin. We were going to hit 4th street and maybe get tickets to the UT game. We figured that if we didn't get tickets, we'd at least tailgate and just hang around Austin. Well, let me tell you about what it means to tailgate at a UT football game. I have tailgated in Milwaukee where it's an art form. Let me say this, Texans put Wisconsian's to shame when it comes to tailgating. As we pulled into Austin and found a parking spot a few blocks from the stadium, it was as if we were walking into a sea of burnt orange. I couldn't believe I was finally in Austin for a Texas football game!! Plus, I was sharing it was two of my best friends!
Anyway, back to the tailgating...WOW!!! Not only were there grills, there were actually smokers. There were people with huge smokers!! At first, we thought it was people setting up vending stands, that's how professional it looked. In fact, the closer we walked to the stadium, the more extravagant the tailgating became. We saw people with painted school buses, hearsts, trucks and so on. Some people had their 60-inch flat panel tv's and even had portable sinks set up. The only thing that was missing was the actual cow that was to be served up.
Before the game, we decided to walk towards downtown Austin. We ended up having lunch at this sports bar called Bikini's. Bikini's is similar to Hooter's except with hotter, Texan girls and they are all wearing, guess what, bikini's and cowboy boots!! Let's just Pete and I weren't disappointed with the view.
After lunch, we did a little souvenir shopping as well as hit a few taverns. It was a great time and as game time, we wanted to see if we could tickets. We ended up buying tickets from a scalper for $15 under their initial value. These seats ended up being awesome because we in the front row of our section.
When we arrived at the game, we found our seats and we getting pretty psyched. Even Pete, who is an Ohio State fan, seemed to enjoy the euphoria. Since I am a longtime UT fan, this was my dream to eventually go to a game and I was finally fulfilling this dream!! To be among the sea of orange and all the fans was everything I thought it would be. I started to learn all of the Texas songs and really grew to appreciate the passion of Texas football. The Longhorns ended up pounding Louisiana-Monroe 59-20. After the game, we decided to head back to San Antonio because we were beat plus we wanted to up for the beach the next day.
On Sunday, we got up early and headed to Corpus Christi for a day at the beach. Since we wanted to get the peak sun, we left early. As we drove into C.C., Jayma and Pete were a little worried that the weather wasn't going to be in our favor. I, ever the optimis, didn't worry. And guess what? The weather turned out to be perfect. We ended up getting lots of sun and I got burned for the 3rd week in a row. That's ok, it was worth it.
After spending the afternoon playing in the sand and the ocean, we headed back to San Antonio to spend an evening on the Riverwalk. After showering and changing, we headed to the Riverwalk. After walking around a bit, we had a delicious dinner at this restaurant that neither one of us can remember the name for. After dinner, we did a little more walking around and decided to hit some of the clubs. We found this British pub that wasn't really British. Maybe they thought they were British because they had a old school phone booth inside it. But the bartenders (guys) were all wearing kilts. Isn't wearing a kilt a Scottish thing? Anyway, we went to another club after that and continued getting our dancing on.
The night ended up with us getting completely lost in San Antonio trying to find our way back home. It ended up taking us almost an hour to find our way back home. By this time, I had a pretty nasty headache and all I wanted to do was go to bed. Jayma and Pete ended up hitting the hot tub which they said was nice. A few hours later, I got up and ended up taking Pete to the airport. It was a fantastic weekend (except for the getting lost part) but we all had an outstanding time. Pete's already talking about coming down again and we are hoping we get lots more visitors during our time here.
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