Tour de Texas

So, the guys and I headed down to the motherland over the weekend. Collin had never been to Texas so we booked our flights, called in sick and booked it to Austin. The entire weekend was filled with tons of food, driving around, listening to some blues and some Texas beers.

We spent two days in Austin where we hung out with Jonathan. We did some geocaching and hung out down town. On Saturday afternoon we drove to College Station. Andrew and I gave a frisbee led tour of the campus and then we went to Zapatos where our buddy Blake was playing some music. Good times ensued.

Instead of getting up super early to drive back to Austin to catch our flight, we drove straight through the night and got to the airport at 5am. The 7am flight got us to Houston, but a nor'easter canceled all flights to the northeast. Luckily, my parents live only minutes from the airport so we took a cab home and slept all day long. At about 9pm we decided to grab something to eat and go home. Instead, we gorged ourselves at Pei Wei (mmmm) and then went downtown so Collin could check off another Texas city. We called Moe who dropped what he was doing, got out of bed.....and met us for a beer. After that we made the obligatory stop at the House of Guys for some late night pie and coffee. By that time, 2am, we needed to get ready for our next flight. So, we took a one hour nap at home and then went back to the airport where a plane took us home to the city. We arrived 24 hours later than expected and I got to call in sick another day.

The snowstorm brought a record 27 inches of snow to New York. Out of the plane's window you could only see brown trees surrounded by the white blanket. Julie took some pictures of our street. The cars were completely buried by the snow. I wish I could have been there for the storm but the five-day Texas journey was a blast.

Collin did a much better job explaining the trip on his blog.