Ahh what a weekend!

One of my friends came over to Austin last weekend. He brought with him a couple of his friends.. And we had the most fun time ever in Austin!

The weekend began at 3:30pm on Friday! People from our office took us to play Glow-in-the-dark-putt-putt-golf. About 2 hours into it, and I ended up at 5th place out of 7 people. I'll try again, I'll get better :).

Later in the evening, we went out to a lake, saw some dogs play around in the water, followed by a visit to a mall, and the omnipresent Starbucks. Caught the late evening show of Cars and by then it was too late, and I was too tired to do anything else.

Saturday morning my friends came over, we met at the Capital of Texas building. I hadnt been inside it before that.. so thats exactly what we did. And it was a good relief to get out of the humid afternoon heat.

After lots of picture taking in the Capital building, we shuttled over to an upscale grocery store where we had lunch. Theres like a dozen stations to pick from - bbq, sushi, chinese, pizza, bakery, southern, etc. Post-lunch, we decided to go to a mall, where I incorrectly gathered that theres a lazer-tag arcade. So, after a couple of quick calls to the bus people to get routes to the mall, we raced a bus to the bus-stop to catch it before it left and ended up at the mall. Alas, there wasnt a lazer-tag arcade, and we ended up just walking around it.

Then, back to Austin downtown, and we fought for a place
under the Congress bridge to watch the 750,000 bats that come out of the bridge everynight at sunset in summer. After a long wait (and a little bat-cursing), we saw the bats stream out endlessly out from under the bridge. Some more pictures of downtown in the fading evening light and we jumped into the "Bugsmobile" and came back home, only to rest for half an hour and then back to watch Cars!


Sunday saw us searching for the canoe rental at Town Lake. We found it finally, and rented a couple of canoes and a kayak. My friend and I were in a kayak... and mann it was fun! We were on the water for almost 2 hours, pretty tired by the end of it - rowing is a good workout indeed. After a quick shower and change, we met up for lunch in a restaurant in downtown, where the 6 of us gulped down enormous quantities of food.

After a short walk to the bus stop, it was time to say good-bye, as they headed off, and I came back to take some much needed rest.. Ahh what a weekend!