Austin, TX

I was excited to roll into Austin because as you may or may not know, my white twin Annalise lives there!

Unfortunately, I was so excited to be there, I forgot to take pictures of us together :(

We got there on June 14th, and checked into the great Austin Motel


and Anni soon joined us on South Congress street. We did plenty of shopping and hung out in Uncommon Objects for a while. The store is amazing and we probably could have spent all day in there (in fact, we went back the next day...). Pictures wouldn't do this shop justice... it's a very well curated shop where every nook is crammed with fun old treasures.

Of course, we ate at the famous food trailers (although maybe not as many as we wanted...). We got a delicious Arnold Palmer slushie and since it was so hot out, decided to get Freddie a chicken sno cone. It was horribly disgusting to look at and to smell, and Freddie agreed

We ended up donating the doggie sno cone to a busker's dog, who appreciated it more than our spoiled pup.

We also stopped by the Mighty Cone, where everything comes in a cone and everything is delicious



Our bellies full, we all decided to go to the Anarchy Wrestling Championships. We sat and drank Lone Stars and PBRs while people pummeled each other mere yards from our face. It was absurd.




We saw girls wrestling, a cowboy, a Pope / Big Baby, some loosely woven narrative, and the best part - the hecklers. They were amazing. A + work, hecklers. We actually had to leave because it went from entertaining to disturbing, what with all the staplers in the head and chairs to the back...

But anyways!! The rest of the Austin trip included kayaking in the river, eating so much delicious food, and one of the best things ever : the amazing and gigantic Whole Foods. We wandered the 80,000 square foot store totally agog. Totes wish we had a Whole Foods in Portsmouth, but my bank account is happy there isnt :)


We had one last lunch (and lunch margarita) with Anni before we started on the long road to Marfa.