Alamo (not Drafthouse) THE Alamo

Kinda a let down. I mean, I wasn't holding my breath to see the Alamo or anything...but really? That's it?

San Antonio is a strange town and it makes you do strange things. It's two big attractions are The Alamo and the Riverwalk. The latter pretty much consisting of a mall ontop of the river. The Austin City Council wants to do something similar here. They'd like to relocate or remove the bars in the Red River district (Beauty Bar, Red 7, Plush, Creekside, etc) to make room for development. You can guess how I feel about ideas like that.

Just a warning. Don't ever eat at Pat O'Brien's. You'll seriously regret the shitty food, service and music. If you do eat there, don't order the hurricane.

Tropical Storms...uhh, weird.

It's really wet here. Wet and gray.

Tejas

4 1/2 mnths. Crazy that it's been that long already since I left Minneapolis for Austin.

July 7th will be my 5 month anniversary of moving, as well as James and my 1 year anniversary of knowing each other.

So. Almost five months of Texas, and I can say that it's growing on me. I don't like the heat; but I also don't like the cold of MN winters. At least in the heat I can still go biking and cool off with a drink or jump in the pool. My fingers don't go numb here, but I do burn my legs and my ass on my stupid leather car seats a lot. Shorts + hot leather = burnt legs.

Jesse Stensby texted me that past weekend, saying he wished mpls had the equivalent of Magnolia's. Sam, I think you might be the only mpls'er we've brought there...remember the Mag Mud? I wish Austin had a Fuji-Ya...I'm really missing that spot. There are some really great sushi joints down here though. One spot is reminiscent of Fuji-Ya, and that makes me happy...but I've only been there once.

Besides the burnt legs and the lack of Fuji-ya, I really can't complain. Happy in Austin, hoping to get back to MN for a week pretty soon, missing your faces, thinking of you guys, learning about living in Texas.