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A few months ago, Jon participated in the San Jose LiveStrong bike ride. His fundraising total led in an invitation to the Ride for the Roses in Austin yesterday. So off we went to a city that has long been on our list of places to visit. A few things worth mentioning:

• The Longhorns were playing at home on Saturday so there was orange everywhere we looked. Orange shirts, hats, shoes, matching cheerleading outfits on a set of four-year-old triplets waiting in line at Amy's Ice Creams. I guess I didn't really grasp just how big a deal UT football is there. Now, I get it.
• Eating out of trailers and Airstreams isn't something we normally do, but that's exactly what we did in Austin. We stopped at Torchy's Tacos (um, FRIED AVOCADO TACOS) and Hey Cupcake on Saturday afternoon.
• While Jon was busy biking 90 miles yesterday morning, I was eating fried okra and sweet potato fries. And checking out the shops along W. 2nd Street. I was ecstatic to find an Art-O-Mat at Mercury Design Studio, which is filled with such lovely furniture. If it was at all feasible, I would have taken half of the reupholstered vintage pieces home with me.

P.S. Thanks, Kim, for all of the great suggestions!

P.P.S. My suitcase has been on constant standby lately. Just as soon as it's unpacked, it needs to be re-packed for another trip. Don't get me wrong, I *love* travel. I consider it one of the big splurgest in our lives. But you know what else was a recent, pretty major splurge? Our house. And it's going to be great to finally spend consecutive weekends there in the coming months. Hopefully, that means I can cross a bunch of stuff off of the to-do list.