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Another lazy morning of sleeping in late before packing up and heading out to meet Aimee at a nearby Food Trailer Park.  Unfortunately most of the food trucks were closed for New Years Day, including the one we especially wanted to try, Pig Vicious.  Instead we headed to a local institution, Chuys, where I finally got some fajitas.  Those fajitas gave me some extra mojo because I then went on to dominate the two them at the first min-golf challenge of 2012 – winner!

From mini-golf we drove up to road to walk around Zilker park, which is huge and was packed.  It was a beautiful day and unseasonably warm, so there were even folks swimming in the big spring:

Last stop in Austin was Amy’s Ice Creams - homemade deliciousness served on marbletop with mixins.  I got the Mexican Vanilla which had a really smooth intense flavor.  so good.

After Ice Creams we hit the highway for the Texas Hill Country, headed to Aimee’s parents house on Lake Buchanan.  Only 60 miles away but on small roads in the middle of nowhere.  It’s a beautiful house, designed and built by Aimee’s mom, with a lot of land.  The amazing thing to see though was the impact of the drought – I’ve heard the drought mentioned on tv but here we saw it first hand.  When they first bought the land 5 years ago, the water was right at the property – now, it’s a quarter mile away.  We drove by dozens of homes with docks with water nowhere near them.

For dinner, we drove Llano to visit what is deemed one of the best BBQ joints ion Texas, Cooper’s Pit BBQ.  Several large BBQ pits greeted us, filled with various meat options.  You point and choose as little or as much as you want of every option, they dip it in some sauce, put it on a cafeteria tray.  You then take yoru tray instead where they weigh everything and charge you by teh pound.  We got lots of different things to try – I thin teh brisket and teh turkey were teh favorites.  You sit at long communal tables, eat off butcher paper, use paper towels, grab some white bread to sop up extra sauce.  Pretty awesome.

Back home we just hung out and watched a Foo Fighters concert on TV and played with the dogs before calling it a night…

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