Our house here is fabulous and we're very comfortable but the AC is on constantly. It's an old character house and has wonderful trees shading it but it must have been hellish in the summer before AC. We're very close to South Congress which has a whole load of very interesting restaurants and small shops. Our first night Jim spotted a place with 2 for 1 burgers on Monday nights and it was amazingly refreshing sitting outside because they had large fans on. The burgers were great...gourmet like and not overcooked...we chose peppercorn sauce and blue cheese. With fries (fresh cut and delicious) and a pitcher of Lone Star ($7 bucks since it was "happy hour") our bill was under $20.
Prices for everything seem to be pretty good here. I found a French Boulangerie and Patisserie and bought a baguette which isn't bad and a pain au chocolat..yum! Also found a shop that will butcher and dress deer for you and they had wild boar Italian saucage so couldn't pass that up. It's going to be fun exploring around.
There is an outdoor municipal pool close by that's free so I checked it out and it looks good but is closed this week for cleaning. I'll give it a try next week.
Jim's finding even more than he thought he would so he could use even more than the month!
This one is from Galveston. Almost all the houses are on stilts because of the flooding and storm problems.
The next ones are of some of the shops in our neighbourhood in Austin:
A great little shop with interesting specialty items although it's hard to beat the big supermarket called HEB (Here Everything Better). I impressed with their selection and customer service. They have people watching the lines with walkie talkies and get more cashiers going if there's any wait at all.
Pretty close to a real baguette.
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I loved the sign on this great toy store...found some stocking stuffers for Richard.
This looks like one hot dog.
