We arrived in Austin for a late breakfast.. Pancakes, omelettes and sausageand egg! Unless you order pancakes everything comes with eggs and cheese..In fact u can even order pancakes with eggs and cheese! Cheese mmm myfavourite!?! Or Not!!
After Steve had finished chatting up the waitress we headed towards BartonSprings a natural pool where all the locals hang out, recommended to us by locals. Unfortunately it's closed on Thursdays so we headed to the next best place.. A naturally filled swimming pool surrounded by perfect grassy sunbathing areas. It was like swimming in Evian water.. No chlorine orother chemicals! We stayed for the afternoon catching some rays and feeding the local squirrels leftover cookies!
We decided to stay outside of town for cheapness and I was designated driver so we could go back in to party on the famous bar filled 6th street!It is crazy how many people drink and drive over here..everywhere is sovast and public transport so crap there isn't really any other choice..Well actually yes there is Don't Drink!!
We went for dinner at a mexican grill and Steve and Jenny tried a vitamin filled margarita and our awesome waiter told us if u feel like u want tovom when u think of drinking tequila you've been drinking the wrong tequila.. I've obviously been drinking the wrong tequila!!
Austin is famous for all its live bands so after dinner we headed to one ofthe many bars with live music. Blues bars, jazz bars, rock bars, pianobars. We opted for a kind of 80's cock rock bar! We were instantly greetedby some big muscly American military guys who were excited to be meetingtheir second lot of English in two days. We ended up spending the eveningwith Barrett, Brian, Box and their sargent whose name didn't begin with Bso I don't remember. The scary looking dudes were actually some of thenicest guys u can meet and told us if we stick by them there would be notrouble. :)
We walked past many bars that were offering 1 dollar drinks but insteadopted for the Coyote Ugly bar where the drinks are 'slightly' more due tothe supposedly sexy women dancing and shouting on the bar (exactly like themovie). I thought I could do a lot better and so with some persuasion from the military guys I did! Dancing on the bar with Jenny and the bar girls! I'd like to remind you at this point that I was completely sober.. I think it's the Bothamley blood in me! (I can see dad cringing as he readsthis :) )
After mine and Jenny's crazy experience we decided it was Steve's turn. As Steve had treated us to dinner, we decided to treat Steve to a body shot. Iwon't go into details of what this includes but wait till u see thephotos!!! We think Steve enjoyed it!
We moved onto a couple more bars with the military men, hearing somestories of their trips to Iraq and stop off in Dublin! Jenny had somepublic snogs with Barrett before it was time for them to head back to camp. They had basically spent a week at camp beating each other up as theylearnt various fighting and protection techniques and were being tested onit all at 7am. We said our goodbyes and planned for them to visit us in England and then it was time for us to go to bed too.
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