Community Beer

It is official. Community Beer is now available in Austin! Hooray! Super excited to attend some of the launch parties at local bars & eateries with Kelly and Jamie! Wednesday we took the early train downtown meeting up with the Fultons at Max's Wine Dive, then headed to Bangers for the first launch party. Cool place, fun atmosphere, live music, great beer and apparently well known for homemade gourmet sausages as well. Great night, thanks to the Smiths for coming out! Cheers to old friends and new ones too!

Thursday we headed back downtown (Two nights in a row? crazy!) and stopped first at Qui, a place we have been dying to try since we moved to Austin. (Very exited to be in a foodie town, and we loved Top Chef, Qui is Paul Qui's restaurant, he won season 9.) While we didn't have the time to do the eight course tasting menu...we sat on the patio and tried the a la cart bar menu, AMAZING. Brew & Brew was up next for Community Beer, and then we were off for foodie place #2, East Side King. Another Paul Qui connection, this food truck is parked in the back alley of the Liberty Bar and was truly a hidden oasis when we found it! Yummy! Congratulations to Community Beer, welcome to Austin.

Octoberfest

What to do on a beautiful Fall Sunday afternoon? Drive to Fredericksburg, TX and spend the day at Octoberfest! Hondo's on Main St. has live music daily (Gospel band on Sundays!) and has a great outdoor shaded patio, perfect to play, eat & drink. After leaving Hondo's, we entered the festival grounds and were ready for sausage, funnel cakes, German beer, and more live music! Fun afternoon spent with the kids, who loved their balloon animals, a mermaid for Hannah and the big bad wolf for Luke. (His sort of favored the Spurs coyote more than a wolf, nevertheless, he loved it!) Love Fredericksburg any time of the year, such a cute little town! Auf Wiedersehen!

M O R E Food, and a Movie too!

So there is a great Mexican restaurant near us called Lupe Tortilla, and what do you know, kids get giant rainbow popsicles as a treat! Bonus, they have great fajitas, queso & chips, and margaritas so everyone is happy! After dinner we headed to see Hotel Transylvania 2, never having seen the first one, it was quite entertaining and the popcorn was delicious!



Since ACL was happening, we headed north on Saturday and had a lovely afternoon/evening in Georgetown. 600 Degrees, was a fabulous find! Excellent pizza, I did a terrible job of NOT taking pics of food, which by the way, the fried pork shanks and wings were amazing! Cannot wait to try more off the menu, too many pizzas to choose from, as well as enjoying their great selection of craft beers - I love finding local joints like this one...so many around here! It is blurry in the photo, but the Life & Beer are Similar, Chill for Best Results phrase really sums it up. Happy times!

Chester the Racoon

Our Chester Road Trip Weekend! Each child in Kindergarten gets to take Chester the Racoon home for one weekend, and is responsible for taking care of him, and logging a journal entry into his book. Chester braved the road and headed to the Rio Grande Valley, made homemade tortillas, ate BBQ, met Hannah's great grandfather, attended a bridal shower, went to church, ate at Chuy's and stopped at Buc-ee's on the way back to Austin. Whew! What a weekend! Everyone made it home safely, but I cannot end the post without a THANK YOU to the 24 hr Walgreen's photo lab! (You have to turn the completed journal, and Chester back in Monday morning!)

Apple Day!

Oh what fun to get to volunteer at Hannah's school! She has such a great class, and getting to spend Apple Craft Day celebrating Johnny Appleseed's birthday with them was so fun! Lots of smiles, lots of messes (I was in charge of the painting table?1?!?) and lots of cute pics! Looking forward to the next opportunity to spend time at school!