Austin

We decided to spend our last few days in Texas (Our Trans-Atlantic flight was ex-Houston). Originally we were due to go to San Antonio, but it appears that the weather is appalling there, so we cancelled the reservation and indended to head up to Austin.

As our plane arrived at 4pm, we didn't book a hotel in Austin.

Unfortunatley, US Airways managed to lose our luggage in Charlotte and so we had to hang around the airport for 4 hours. We did get to see some of David Beckham's first match in LA (Chelski won 1-0). We watched it in the same bar that we had had our dinner in on our way out - it was a real deja vu moment.

I managed to remember the way to the bit of Austin I knew (I had spent 6 weeks there in 2003) and we checked into the Holiday Inn at 2am.

Austin is nice. We did a few things:

• Shopping
  
• Visiting the lake
  
• Touring Austin on the duck (T only)
  
• Doing lunch with the people I had worked with all that time ago (P only)
  
• Drinking beer on 6th street
  
• More shopping
  
• Eating food (BBQ at Rudys was a hit)
  
• Playing pool and shuffleboard
  

Eventually, we set off for Houston and stopped by a Waffle House to experience one. T approved. Apart from forgetting to refill the tank, we had an uneventful journey and arrived in plenty of time for our last hop.