Austin Rocks!

We rolled into Austin on Halloween and our friends the Xtreme Family invited us over for dinner and trick or treating. This was our first time meeting the Extreme family in person. They used to be a FOTR and have a SWEET bus that they converted. What a nice family! Cindy is an AMAZING hostess & cook!! She even made marshmallows in the shape of bones. She had her place all decked out with great Halloween decorations too. Their kids are teens, but were so nice and easy going with our younger ones checking out all their cool stuff/ toys. We met the Weed family that night too. They have 3 boys close in age to our boys so the kids had a great time playing and trick or treating!

We took the Dillo (city bus) to the Extreme Fams house

Trick or Treating

Lincoln and Bryce at the Halloween party

Steve watching this lady play her propain tank drum (sounds real peaceful)

Winston, I mean Batman OOPS!

To much candy does this......

We spent the following 2wks in Austin. We found a cool park right down town to boondock at. We could walk all over downtown. We really like Austin! It's a big city, but doesn't feel like it. They have a beautiful lake and a great walking/ bike trail that goes around it. It seems to be a very green & healthy city. Lots of people out running, walking, biking and kayaking! We loved watching the turtles. Our dogs were thrilled about the HUGE off leash dog park and enjoyed swimming in the lake too! We went swimming at Barton Springs and visited the Nature Center. The kids LOVED the Children's Museum and we enjoyed the YMCA! We played at the playground on the roof of the huge Whole Foods, had free Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and free nachos at Chuy's for happy hr! Steve saw Lance Armstrong at Chuy's one of the nights we were there. We checked out SOCO's 1st Thursday and got to hang out with the Barenaked Family. Isabelle really had a great time with Sunny & hopes to meet up again!

Asher and Winston

Winston and Asher

Isabelle and the Acorn she found

Turtle

Steve and the dogs on Tara and Kevins pimp ride!

Austin Childrens museum

The amount of birds in the city was crazy

Views of Austin

Walking bridge in Austin

Walking to Whole Foods (Their headquarters)

Beautiful Austin at dusk

Lincoln rockn at the childrens museum

Lincoln at CM

Little Jack Black Winston (Rock on)

Lincoln and Winston at CM

Lincoln and Isabelle making things at CM

Bryce and Conner creating project at CM

Lincoln and Winston at CM

Bryce excited about her creation at CM

Isabelle creating art at CM

Walking to downtown Austin

Gamebay time in the bus

Downtown Austin

Swimming with the Weed family at Barton Springs

Downtown Austin

Entrance at Nature Center

Isabelle and Sunny at NC

Conner and Brennon at NC

Sloan and Weed boys

Kids digging at the Dino dig at NC

Isabelle and Sunny uncovering Dino bones at NC

Conner uncovering bones at NC

Dogs swimming in the Lake

Coco decided he wanted to climb the tree with Conner

Boondocked at the Baseball fields in Austin

Sloan and Weed Fams

We did most of the above with the Weed family....we just couldn't get enough of them! They drove us down 6th St and around town in their HUGE truck. Steve & I sat on the back with our dogs...it was crazy fun! We had lots of movie nights at their place, fun at the play ground, a couple date nights, and more! I really enjoyed hanging with Tara and the kids really hit it off! Even their baby Asher started calling me mom...LOL! We will miss them & look forward to crossing paths again!