Thurs pm/Fri/Sat/Sun - four filled days. Thursday - we went to an advertising happy hour which included some good networking and meeting some other people also new to the area.
Friday - I continued to unpack the place and then met with the ending of summers work-happy hour at the same bar we were at on Thursday. Kung Fu Saloon. Great place I must say and their 4-9pm $2 happy hour special which included ShinerBock means we will frequent this place often, most likely. Other than that Friday night and most of Saturday consisted of organizing the apartment and unpacking boxes. We did hit up PeiWei Chinese and I must say their Thai won tong soup there is delicious as was the veg fried rice and sesame chicken.
Sunday - A day full of peaks and valleys. So as many of you know, I am a fan of food. I love grocery shopping and aimlessly wandering farmers markets. I like my produce fresh like everybody else plus the atmosphere is always interesting. So we woke early and our first stop was another attempt at the downtown market however, traffic, due to closed roads and some other festival made getting to this downtown market near impossible so we decided to hit up #2, this organic farm, farmers market located a little ways away. The write up about it made it seem large, it was not. 2 tables and a bunch of live chickens. A disappointment. We then iphone googled some other one in Northern Austin. It was nowhere to be found.
Now I won't lie I am disappointed. Minneapolis has a HUGE farmers market off Lyndale Ave. Austin is in a warmer climate and organic-friendly. So I expected a whole foods like farmers market full of fresh food, happy faces and decent prices. Nope. Downtown which we visted in April seemed to be a good size, had delicious breakfast burritos and fresh kombucha but we've yet to be able to get back there so there is still hope for that place but other than that we were saved by Newflowers Market and Sonic and a nearby Nursery. Newflowers had great prices on organic produce so we filled our bags there, then we found a Sonic so I finally got my breakfast burrito. The nursery was huge and we got some rosemary, chocolate mint and a variegated prickly pear houseplant. So our shopping was in conclusion a success. We just had to go to the stores instead of the farms. Not what I expected of Austin and its green cachet, I will admit, but the long drive all over town gave us a view of our new city and the bad part of the day was to be viewed later.
The awful vikings game. Come on Farve, we pay you to have us win. Practice! and quit throwing interceptions or else it will be hard to follow you guys on network tv. Nobody wants to watch losers.
Monday bonus - 2 hours of writing has been completed =) According to Summer I have a couple readers. I thank you for sharing in our story. Feel free to use the comments section to give more life to this blog and I will try to continue to keep you all up to date and be a bit more entertaining (easier when I'm not writing all of these at once. haha)
Cheers!
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