Tubing/Camping

My boss lives up in Dallas and her friends started an annual trip to the river near Canyon Lake that we crashed this year.  It was a blast, we enjoyed a weekend in the wilderness and discovered our new favorite toy, the Flabongo!  Shaun purchased one so anyone wondering what that is just needs to come for a visit to check it out for themselves ;)

Washers Tournament

Deutschenfest just got that much better, we found a washers tournament at the Green/Red Barn to participate in.  It was our first one and apparently we should have done some better research.  We thought we were smart getting a few practice rounds in the weekend before but it ends up we were practicing on the wrong type of boards.  We showed up at the tournament and instead on a small circle in a large box we were playing on long thin boards with three holes.  All in all we held our own and advanced a few rounds so I was really proud of ourselves.  My biggest fear was getting skunked in the first round.  It was a lot of fun in the end and afterwards we enjoyed some German food, beer, and music at the festival. 

San Diego

Another work perk, we're based in San Diego so I get to travel to sunny California almost every month!  This time I was out there for 2 weeks straight so Shaun flew out and joined me for a weekend of sun & fun!  We had a fun triple date with my coworkers on Friday night and then spent Saturday in Coronado enjoying the sun & sand at the famous Hotel Del.  It was a little slice of paradise and hard to get back on the ferry to return to the gas lamp district.  But it was worth it after all as we ended the evening at Oceanaire for some wine and oysters.  I could get used to weekends like this.  Is a move to San Diego in our future?!?!  A girl can dream can't she ;) 

Italy

I really do have some great perks that come along with my job, site visits to Europe is one of them!  I don't know how I got so lucky but I'll take it, and Shaun will too ;)  He was able to tag along with me for part of my Italy trip and we enjoyed an amazing weekend in Venice.

I headed out to Northern Italy to do site visits at Aviano Air Force Base & Vicenza before meeting up with Shaun for a mini vaca.  I picked him up at the airport and we took a water taxi over to Venice for a weekend of sightseeing, gondola rides, and lots of good food and prosecco.

We also headed to Verona, home of the Montague's and Capulet's.  It was very neat to see Juliet's balcony and all the letters that are left there to find true love.  It's a very romantic place and Shaun feel for the ritual to rub the statue for good luck, I think the picture speaks for itself ;)

Unfortunately Shaun had to head home and I back to work, but my work continued in Southern Italy so I can't really complain.  I headed down to Naples and Sigonella for more site visits and then was able to end my trip with a day in Rome before heading back to the States.  I've become an expert at speed tourism and how to fit the most into one day as possible!

 

 

While I was finishing my travels overseas, Shaun was back in Austin enjoying Derby weekend.  It's not the same as being in Louisville but Shaun found a great place, Trifecta, to watch the races and ended up winning a free bar tab thanks to a cornhole tournament.  He really has some mad skills!

Willie Nelson

Willie's still got it!  He may be 80 years old but he can still put on a great show.  We headed out to the Backyard at Bee Caves which is a great amphitheater in town and enjoyed an evening with the one and only. 

Golf

Another great Sunday Funday was in store for us this weekend, we hit the golf course in our neighborhood for a round and enjoyed a perfect date day together!

The Krantz' Visit

The Krantz' Come to Town!  Katie had a work trip to Austin this week and convinced Brian to join her for their last vacation before Baby K arrives ;)  It was Brian's first time to Austin so we tried to do as much exploring as possible. 

We had an interesting Friday night downtown on 6th St, it started off by crashing the Senior Citizens showcase at Esther Follies.  We've heard great things about this comedy club but I think we were the wrong target audience for the nights show.  Literally 75% of the audience had name tags on and were bused in from the local retirement home.  It still made for some awkward laughs though.  To make up for it, Shaun & Brian decided to act like college kids and crush some tall $1 Lonestars on East 6th Street afterwards.  We went from one extreme to the other ;)

Saturday we had a leisurely day enjoying the outdoors.  Katie was a trooper, at 7 months pregnant she hoped on a bike and rode all around Town Lake.  We stopped and relaxed in Zilker Park for awhile and then returned to Mellow Johnnie's hoping for a Lance Armstrong sighting but no luck.  From there we headed out to the original Salt Lick to enjoy some authentic Texas BBQ and live music. 

It was a great weekend, we really miss our old roomie and can't wait to meet her new little man soon enough!