Austin Trip, Day 6
Apr. 4th, 2009 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llcoolvadAnother totally gorgeous day. We had plans to have brunch with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
livingdeb and her guy R at Trudy's. Trudy's has a buffet for brunch, and after having a lot of single items all week for breakfast I was pretty obsessed with the idea of the buffet. A little bit of everything! Woke up at a reasonable time, spruced up, then headed off to meet up. They got there pretty much right when we did, and we spent the next hour + stuffing our faces and chatting away about everything under the sun. Very fun, and really good food. Thanks, Deb! The company made the morning.
We then had to stop by Brian's house, sit at Enterprise until they give us a new car, then decide what to do with the rest of the day. I recommend the "in your face" approach to getting what you want from customer service. Don't call, go there! They can't get rid of you as easily. Anyway, we got a new car, hooray!
Decided to save the Alamo for the next day, as by then it was already past 1pm, so instead we headed off to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Gorgeous!
After much wandering around in the sunshine, it was back to the car to head downtown for some gelato. Yummy! A bit of an afternoon siesta, then off to the Alamo Drafthouse for dinner and a movie ("Taken" — pretty good!). I've been to a movie/restaurant in Salem (? I think) and they had actual tables there; the Alamo Drafthouse has regular movie theater seats with a bar style table in front of you. The waiter brings your food and refills based on little paper flags you put in a little slot in front of you. I think the most fun part, though, was the preview reel. Very eclectic — stuff from the 70s, indie stuff, music videos. Some of it extremely bad. But fun!
And that was Day 6. Onward!
Please view the rest of the pictures here.
livingdeb and her guy R at Trudy's. Trudy's has a buffet for brunch, and after having a lot of single items all week for breakfast I was pretty obsessed with the idea of the buffet. A little bit of everything! Woke up at a reasonable time, spruced up, then headed off to meet up. They got there pretty much right when we did, and we spent the next hour + stuffing our faces and chatting away about everything under the sun. Very fun, and really good food. Thanks, Deb! The company made the morning.We then had to stop by Brian's house, sit at Enterprise until they give us a new car, then decide what to do with the rest of the day. I recommend the "in your face" approach to getting what you want from customer service. Don't call, go there! They can't get rid of you as easily. Anyway, we got a new car, hooray!
Decided to save the Alamo for the next day, as by then it was already past 1pm, so instead we headed off to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Gorgeous!
After much wandering around in the sunshine, it was back to the car to head downtown for some gelato. Yummy! A bit of an afternoon siesta, then off to the Alamo Drafthouse for dinner and a movie ("Taken" — pretty good!). I've been to a movie/restaurant in Salem (? I think) and they had actual tables there; the Alamo Drafthouse has regular movie theater seats with a bar style table in front of you. The waiter brings your food and refills based on little paper flags you put in a little slot in front of you. I think the most fun part, though, was the preview reel. Very eclectic — stuff from the 70s, indie stuff, music videos. Some of it extremely bad. But fun!
And that was Day 6. Onward!
Please view the rest of the pictures here.
