Vacation to Austin!

We are back!!!! Back from Austin and we sure had fun! AND, guess what? I took pictures! Me, Leah Trowbridge, I took LOTS (for my standards) of pictures!


Are you ready for this?

Ok, here we go.........


Here are the boys on the drive up....





Jake and Dave gettin ready for some "Salt Lick" BBQ. Which deserves it's own post all together.



Me, Steven and Jake at the Salt Lick restaurant, anxiously awaiting our food. I REALLY regret not taking pictures of the restaurant outside. This was by far the coolest, most unique, most original restaurant I have EVER been to. We first found out about this place when Man V. Food (love that show) featured it as a hot spot in Austin. I am SO glad we went. The food was AMAZING! I really could sit here all day and do nothing but talk about the food. It was SO good! Each dish had its own spin, for instance, the cole slaw (which I normally hate) had toasted sesame seeds and a bit of sesame oil all mixed up in there, oh, it was SO GOOD! People, heed my words, if you are EVER in Austin, you need to check this place out! You will not regret it. Not only is the experience awesome, but it is in the middle of nowhere, so the drive is absolutely beautiful. Its just out there in the hill country, just waiting to be discovered.




Here is Jake at the Hotel jumping on the bed...



Silly boy




Steven after a LONG day.....




Steven yelling at me for taking his picture instead of putting him in pj's and sending him off to bed...



Steven (much happier) and I the next morning




Jake and Steven on a giant turtle. They both loved it


Cheese!


THEN we decided to do something just for Jakers. He is such a good big brother, he tries very hard to listen to mom and daddy, so we wanted to take him to a fun place, just for him.

So, we took him to "Kiddie Acres"
Which according to their website, was full of fun activities, pony rides, cotton candy and everything else a little boy could dream of...


When we got there we were pretty surprised. It was pretty ghetto. The grass was dead, they taped up a bunch of rides with duct tape, their solution to the metal burning the kids backsides was to put towels on the seats of the rides....

But did Jake care about any of that?


NO WAY MAN!!! He had a BLAST!








Here is Steven about to have a heat stroke, so we left.

We went back to the hotel and had a little rest.
A few hours later we met up with......

Grandpa and Grandma! Jake was SO happy to see them!


Grandma and Steven at Salt Lick(yes, we went again)


Dave and I


Jake and his new picture pose.....



The second time we went I allowed myself a 2 minute break to snap a quick picture, but I wish I had done it before we started eating. Just look at that meat! And its 10 times better tasting than it looks. I will dream about this meat......


Cheese!


The waiter forgot a spoon for Stevens ice cream, but I don't think it was a problem for him.......


Then the next morning we went to Round Rock donuts



Jake LOVES donuts! LOVES them! So he was super excited

We went to this particular donut shop because we knew there was something Jake would just go crazy over.......

A donut that weighs more than 2LBS

He tried so hard to cover up his excitement






Steven enjoyed the donuts too...
We played for a while longer, then it was time to pack up and go home...


Jake cried his eyes out when we said bye to grandpa and grandma. He loves them so much.


The boys on the way home, very unhappy about the fact that we just left grandma and grandpa. And the fun hotel. And that they were going to be in the car for the next 5 hours, with us. Stinkin mom and dad.