All-Day Party in Austin (Oct. 17)

JOHN - Pete decided to make another visit because he was missing the beautiful weather and girls of Texas. He flew in a Friday night. He arrived a little early because Jayma and I were still at the Spurs game. There is a funny story about the Spurs game that I will cover in another blog. Anyway, we ended up picking Pete us because he took a bus downtown to have a drink.

We picked Pete up and headed home. We weren't going to stay up late because we had a full day ahead of us partying in Austin. We woke up early the next day, got dressed, packed our bags, picked up Jared and headed to Austin. The Red River Shootout (UT v. OU game) was that day so we wanted to get to a pub to watch the game. After finally deciding on where to park our butts, we commenced with the daytime partying. We stayed at one pub until halftime until moving to a rooftop tavern that was also playing the game. The game, itself, was kind of boring but my Horns ended up hookin' the Sooners so I can't say I was disappointed.

After the game, we headed on over to another bar that Pete had read about. If I remember, it was called DB or something. Anyway, this place was known for it's travelling gnome. In fact, there were pics all over the place of where this gnome had been to. Plus, this place had lots of old-school video games like Centipede, Galaga and Joust. Needless to say, we stayed there for awhile.

Once we left DB, we went to the hotel where we would rest for a minute. I forgot to mention, Don and Lisa ended up coming to Austin too and they also got a hotel room. Anyway, we took showers, rested and proceeded to head out for a night of crazy fun. Jared was a dancing machine. In fact, I don't think he stopped after awhile. Everyone seemed to have a great time, the weather was gorgeous and it was nice to have such a large group of people to hang out with.

The next morning, I had to take Pete to the Austin airport real early. After waking and picking up Jared and Jayma, we headed back home for a nice, restful Sunday afternoon. It was great weekend, it was fun seeing Pete so soon and we had a blast.