We're back from St. George!! We had a great weekend with friends and family, and I have never been so full in my life...it's going to be a couple of days before I'm hungry again because of all the good food we ate! Now, back to our Austin trip...
Day 5 of our trip is when we drove down to stay in downtown Austin for our anniversary. We started the day out by going to Round Rock Donuts, which is a donut shop that has been featured on the Food Network and Travel Channel for it's "Texas-sized" donuts. They are huge!! We didn't get one of those, but we did order some normal-sized and had them for breakfast with our sister-in-law and nieces before heading downtown on our own.
Once we got to Austin, we checked into our hotel and relaxed for a while, which was really nice after such a busy (but fun!) week. After that we went to dinner at a restaurant near our hotel called The Roaring Fork. It was AMAZING! I had grilled shrimp over cheese grits, and John had bacon wrapped pork tenderloin with corn. Yum!
After dinner, we went to the University of Texas campus and walked around, then took a tour of the tower there. It was so beautiful to see the whole city from the top of the tower. After our tour, we went to the bridge on Congress Avenue and watched thousands of bats emerge from under it. It's SO worth seeing! I have never seen anything like it before.
After that, we went back to our hotel, relaxed in the roof top pool & hot tub to watch the city down below (there was a biker rally going on...so there was a lot to watch!), and then we ordered room service because that's something John and I have never really done before. It was such a great day, and the perfect anniversary!
Here are the photos:
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John thought he looked really good this day
so he made me take a picture so I could
show everyone how good looking he is. Haha. |
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| So then I made him take a picture of me too...haha. |
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| The "Texas-sized" donuts at Round Rock Donuts |
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| John and me with our nieces at Round Rock Donuts for breakfast |
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| Our hotel! |
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| John and I on our way to downtown Austin! |
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| Downtown Austin |
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| Our hotel room |
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| John opening his anniversary present from me |
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| Me with my anniversary gifts from John |
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The amazing chocolates we received when we got to the
hotel. I was in heaven! |
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| The view of our hotel from the inside |
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| All dressed up before going out for our anniversary! |
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| My delicious dinner at The Roaring Fork |
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| John at dinner |
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| John standing in front of the tower at University of Texas |
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| The view of downtown from the top of the tower |
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| The Longhorns stadium! Hook 'em horns! |
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| John at the top of the tower |
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| Go Longhorns! |
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| One of the clocks on the tower |
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| Congress Avenue Bridge |
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| The bats emerging! |
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| The view of downtown from the rooftop pool |
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| The rooftop pool at our hotel! |
The final day of our trip coming soon!!!
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