Back in Time: Craft Fair Weekend

Two weekends ago (May 18th to 20th), Amanda came to Austin for the Renegade Craft Fair. No, she didn't drive all the way from Iowa just to shop at a craft fair, she had a booth and sold her lovely pottery on Saturday and Sunday. And Amanda didn't drive here on her own either, her friend Calee went on the road trip to Texas with her. On Friday night we went and had sushi at How Do You Roll because I had been torturing Amanda for long enough with my delicious sushi photos every time I've eaten here :)

We also checked out a new frozen yogurt place where I had pretzel carmel flavored yogurt with chocolate rocks on it.

Saturday the ladies went and sold art at the craft fair and Josh and I washed his car and went swimming. I ended up taking a multiple hour nap that afternoon. Wore my beanself out. For dinner we went to Baby A's and introduced Amanda to the drink that is known as Purple. Purple! Doesn't Calee look adorable here?

On Sunday, the ladies once again went to sell stuff to Austinites. I went to the fair later in the day and one of the first things I saw was this addition to the water fountains in the convention center :) There was a TON of really cool items at the fair and I met a bunch of local crafty ladies. There are a few different groups that are promoting women working together to make crafts (yes!) and another place I can learn to use a plasma laser to make crafts (double yes!)

I bought myself a few small things and got a gift for the cats - Catnip Fish. Tater lovessssssss this fish. Lovesssssss it. And Neo drools on it. Goofs.

We couldn't let Amanda and Calee leave Texas without having BBQ, so we took them to Rudy's which is my favorite BBQ place in the state. Amanda made a BBQ sandwich and there may be a picture out there somewhere of Calee enjoying herself BBQing too. I think she went into BBQ raptures :) Thanks for visiting us Ladies and I hope ya'll visit again. Maybe then we can dunk you in our pool *hee*

Dinner Out at Baby Acapulco on 2/28

Mom wanted to have Tex Mex before she left town so we took her to Baby Acapulco. One of my local friends took me there when I was house hunting and it was scrumptious. It was still happy hour so we shared half priced queso dip, Mom had some wine, and Josh and I both tried their famous frozen Purple Margarita. It tasted....purple....and strong...and um...I couldn't detect much fruit in.

I had Chile Relleno with delightful amounts of cheese in it.

Mom had shrimp enchiladas and Josh had a combination platter the waiter recommended. I had a hard time not eating all the chips and queso before dinner so I got pretty full at dinner. We had a fun time talking about college and jobs and all sorts of things.

I didn't get a picture of it but we also shared some Tres Leches cake before we went back home. I really want to find a Tres Leches cake here that was as good as Banditos used to make in Iowa. So far, two restaurant's versions in Texas have not compared. More cake to try someday!