Austin, Texas - Day 2

Thursday morning got off to a slow start for the adults in the house.  Notice I said the adults?  Children not so much, haha!

I made scrambled eggs and bacon for everyone.   When Hunter needed to be sung to sleep Dick finished up the bacon for me.  

Austin easily contented himself with games on his iPad, but by later in the day it had to be put away because of his neck pain.  He had used it a lot the day before while we were flying, and even though he tried to remember to prop it up so his neck wouldn't have to bend forward, it was too easy to forget.  I gave him some neck massages and applied my IcyHot.  

Anthony took Lori to her conference at the convention center, then hit some of his favorite guitar stores in Austin.  

We took the boys to Gatti Pizza.  The main attraction for Austin was the arcade.  He is obsessed with claw machines and beating the ones that are "rigged."  Would you believe that his first three tries were successful??  He got three HUGE balls!!

He needed to have a picture taken next to the machine, haha!!  His huge regret later was that we had not gotten a video of him getting those balls.  He thought we should go back.   Apparently on YouTube there are lots of videos of people getting things from claw machines.  Who knew???  

Of course, we had to order food to have access to the games.  Hunter fell asleep in my arms as soon as we arrived at the place. 

Eventually he woke up.  He gladly eats anything, but our food was all gone, so thankfully I had some baby food along.  

He loved those big balls Austin had won.  

By the way, they did make it back to PA with us.  Anthony bought a needle at Walmart to release the air out of them.

We met Anthony and Lori back at the house, then we all piled into the minivan to go for a little tour of downtown Austin and to the Whole Foods headquarters, where we ate our dinner.  

What a place!  There was a parking garage under the store, seven restaurants inside the store, and a playground on the roof!

The sunset from the rooftop.

Austin and I were always back seat buddies.  On the way home we played the alphabet game.  Q was a stinker to find!!  After we finally found a Q we were almost back at the house and still had not found Y and Z.  Bummer.  

We needed a few things from the nearby grocery store (things we did not want to pay Whole Foods prices for, haha!), so after we got back to the house, Austin and I went with Anthony.  As Austin and I were walking out to the street where Anthony had the Jeep parked, Austin suddenly exclaimed, "Y and Z!!!"   There on the pavement were the painted words, "Tow Away Zone"   What a perfect ending to our alphabet game!!