The Adventures of Danielle and Josh

St. Patty's Day in Austin!

2009-03-24T09:52:00.000-07:00

This year's St. Patty's Day was one of the best yet. Only being the second time spending the holiday in a bar, The Gingerman was the best choice! Cold beers, warm weather, outside patio, live music & good friends, where can you go wrong?

My friend, Ashley (from AiAUS) used to work at Gingerman & her boyfriend, Nick, currently still does. There aren't too many photos from the night, but I wanted to give you an idea!

Here, Josh and I are walking down 4th street toward the bar.

We stumbled upon a huge outside party. Also including live music & beer.

This is Gingerman's outside bar & patio.
(I'm wondering why the band isn't dressed in green?!)

That's Nick, Ashley's boyfriend, on the right. Sadly, he had to work on St. Patty's. At least there was plenty of room for the three of us to hang out around him & keep him company.

Josh, happy with his beer.

Here's Ashley & I!

Mmm Mannequin Piss!

Josh & I in our green.

This was after 3 or 4 photos I made him take with me.
After a while he has to make me stop, haha. This picture cracks me up!

Waiting for the bus is always an adventure.

This supporter of wearing green on St. Patty's (as well as socks with sandals) told us his tale of getting a beer on a busy downtown night.

So of course after any night of drinking, it's time for snacks!
Josh and I can never get past this taco stand (that is directly across the street from our apartment) without a taco or two (or three or four).
At $1.50 a taco, nothing is better than this authentic Mexican treat!

Best Tacos Ever

Hope your St. Patty's day was a good one!

xoxo,

Danielle (& Josh)

More walks in the woods & things

2009-03-13T10:44:00.000-07:00

Again, it's been a little while since we've been updating. Here are some photos & such from a couple weekends ago. (Josh's photos to come soon)

Please leave a comment if our videos are not working for you. I click it over & over & finally it will play. I don't understand why it's not working properly but I'll keep trying to figure out why.

These cupcakes I made myself & brought into work for everyone for a Valentine's Day treat.
They're (vegan) red velvet with (not so vegan) cream cheese icing.

I went to a cake decorating class, Feb 19th, at the Whole Foods Culinary Center.
I didn't know what to write on it & I figured since it was for Josh & I, I'd address it to him!
The class was taught by the awesome Summer Pruett, owner of Stardust Pastry.

Feb 21st 2009
The Senior Director of Admissions @ AiAUS transferred to AiPheonix.
Someone in his apartment building had a going away party in the Penthouse.
Here is a view from Jarad's (SDoA) apartment.
I would kill for that view every morning!

This is the view from the penthouse.

Jarad is to the left, handing out shots of Patron.

Cheers!

Josh & I hanging out on the couch.

After the party, Josh & I stopped at the Jack in the Box next to our apartment for some late night fries.

Drive Thru

It's hard to tell by this photo, but our apartment is between those two lights.
We can hear the drive thru people from our place. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night & can hear people ordering food!

Feb 22nd
Josh & I didn't let our hang overs hold us back. We headed to Barton Creek Green Belt for a walk.
Somehow we found our way up the side of this mountain.

Tree tops.

Below is the stream bed, where supposedly water runs through at some point. You can walk in the stream bed (where the spiders roam) or on the trail running along it.

On top of the world!

Back down on the ground, taking a rest.

This was pretty scary.. watch out for the dirt & little rocks, one slip of the foot & you're going down!

Then we found some water so we followed it.

This is pointing back to the trail that we came from.

Josh wanted to walk across this. The picture that he tried doing it is too blurry to see.

A bunch of people rock climbing.

Feb. 23rd
We decided to go back to the same spot & go follow that stream some more. We stopped the day before because by the time we found it, we had already been out walking for a few hours.
Josh & his caves..

I don't even want to know what's back there! My biggest fear is always when I'm peaking in, if a ton of bats are going to come flying out or not. Unlikely, but possible, isn't it?

The smell of these flowers fill the air.

Inside of this cement structure is where the water was coming from. It took about a half hour to climb to the top.
I love Green Belt
Buy Local..

And the water was all orange!
Well, not the water, but whatever was growing in it.

Josh taking photos of the orange goo.

After we walked back down to the stream bed, we found a huge rock to sit on. When the weather's warm and the sun is shinning, there's a TON of spiders. While walking over the rocks, a ton of the coming running out of underneath. I always feel like they're crawling up my legs!
Can you find the spider?
(I'll give you a hint, it's at the bottom)

I was trying to zoom in down at them from the rock we were on. Josh & I sat on this rock for maybe 45 minutes watching the spiders roam about. This one below, I wasn't sure if it was a spider or not. So I threw a stone down toward it & the spider jumped at the stone! Josh & I watched him for a few minutes & a fly landed on the rock next to him. When the fly started to fly away, the spider lunged at the fly & caught him! Never saw anything like it in real life.

Super zoomed in, didn't want to go near that guy!

March 1st
This is the day we found out the engine to our van was dead. It was a pretty depressing day so we went out for a walk to get some beers to try & forget about our woes!

We went to Uncle Billy's Brew&Que where they brew their own beer. We decided to get the 5 beer sampler & beer battered onion rings. Delicious!

All done & time to move on!

My buddy, Esteban, told me about the Kite Festival going on in Zilker Park. After our beers we took a stroll down that way. Along our walk..

I need to go canoeing here before we leave!

Unfortunately, we spent too much time trying to figure out the van situation that by the time we went out for our beers & got to the festival, it was just about done! There weren't nearly as much kites left as I had hoped for.

This is always nice..

I have been dying to take a trip on this little train that goes around the park! It's only $3 a ticket and they were about to take their last ride so we figured, why not?

Creepy..

Tried to snap a quick pic of the city on our way by.

That's the trail Josh & I were on when we first discovered the train.

Turning around..

Got one on the way back too.

Thank you for checking in!

xoxo,

Danielle

Juli comes to Austin!

2009-03-06T10:05:00.000-08:00

I figure since I'm here, not working this week, I should get on the photo/story blog about when Juli came to visit. It's about time, huh?!
We had many many more photos but here are our highlights!

Feb. 11-16 2009

Juli's flight was super delayed so she didn't end up in Austin until 1130pm Feb 11th.

Thurs, Feb 12th

The first thing we did was dance the morning away.

Then we went for a walk to Congress & meet Josh at work.

The hell highway, I35

("When you see my face hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell")

Sage Creek & Live Oak

Then we went into New Bohemia.
This is a really fun retro clothing store.
We spent maybe a 1/2 hr here looking at everything.

Juli's new prom dress, one of many.

I still need to go into Allen's Boots!

Uncommon Objects.
An antique store you can literally get lost in.

Then we realized we were taking too much time because Josh was about to be done work.

Beautiful weather, beautiful city, beautiful girl ;)

We picked up Josh, he made us some subs & we had a picnic at Zilker Park.

Ahh and the view is so pretty!
This is one of many places Josh & I go to to play frisbee.

We made it to Mount Bonnell later that day.
We had to show Juli our most relaxing hang out.
Time to walk up the 100 stairs!

Well worth the walk to the gorgeous view.

My BFF's.

Unfortunately, these websites take away from the color on these photos a LOT, but you get the idea.

Joshcam.

We could sit here for hours..

The view of the city from the other side.

I love when people offer to take a photo for us.

AMAZING.

Has anyone every seen peacocks in the road before?! This was so bizarre to us. There were 3 of them just hanging out in the road, until one brave driver got out and shooed them away, haha.

Juli's eating BBQ!

After Mount Bonnell we decided to enjoy a feast at Iron Works,
the BEST BBQ in Austin
(that I've tried so far)

Then off for dessert at Hey Cupcake! The Michael Jackson is still my favorite. Nothing is better that a cupcake vendor on the side of the road!

Friday, Feb 13th

Juli & I on our way to Central Market to get supplies for lasagna.
This is one of the funnest stores to go grocery shopping.
(aside from Whole Foods, that is)

City in the distance on our way home.

After Josh got off work, we took a bus into downtown & had lunch at Hickory Street.

("When you walk my way, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell")

Juli & Josh under Congress Bridge, where the bats sleep.

Chillin on our dock!

Sunset- Standing on Congress Bridge.

How is she so much taller than me?!

Sat, Feb 14th
We made Valentine's Day Brownies!
Unfortunately, this was basically all we did all day.
It was ugly & rainy out so we had a hang in day.

Sunday, Feb 15th

Hooray, a walk in the woods!

Hanging out at the dried up Twin Falls.
(The Twin Falls link has a photo of the falls when there is actually water flowing through)

This was pretty wacky walk in the woods.

And Josh, like always, climbed up the rock to explore a cave.

Juli was afraid he was going to fall down & she wanted nothing to do with it.
"I will not be a witness to this!"

Being in the woods brings out your wild side.

Video taping.

Juli & I sitting on the "picnic table"

Cooling down at Austin Java.
Nothing is better than an ice cold beer after a long walk.
(Juli had an iced coffee!)
One thing I love love love about it here is all of the outside seating most of the food & drink places have. The atmosphere is amazing.

This is pretty much the end of our last day.
I look like a nerd but Josh looks pretty much perfect so I had to post it!

Sadly, Juli left around 8am Monday, Feb 16th and I have missed her so much ever since! I love you, thank you so much for coming to Austin. I'm glad you had fun & loved it so much!

xoxo,

Danielle

NU Magazine Article

2009-02-11T16:47:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone just wanted to inform you that I was featured in a local Austin Magazine called NU Magazine. I should also be featured in a new magazine out of Philadelphia called Gov't Issue sometime in the beginning of March.

I am also now an volunteer at the Austin Museum of Art and will be committing 4 hours a week helping run the Museum. Hopefully things will keep going this way for me and I will get some exposure.

Video/Photo Post

2009-02-08T15:05:00.000-08:00

Here are some videos & photos from the last few months.
(I think you need to click the "play" button a bunch of times to get it to play. I've been trying to figure out how to fix that)

A few days before Christmas Josh & I found some music playing from the city when we were at Zilker Park sitting by the water.

Chrismas morning!! We never did make another one after the gifts like we said we would, sorry!

The beautiful view from the Oasis on Lake Travis.
12/26/08

Windy Point.. extremely windy!
Day after Christmas.

Finally found water at Barton Creek!!
1/2/09

McKinney Park, Jan 10th(ish)

We took the van to Pep Boys and stopped in at Pluckers for wings & beer.

Didn't know they'd be this HUGE!! 34oz
Jan 24 09

Another walk in a new part of Barton Creek.
A nice man offered to take our photo!
Jan 31

Danielle!

Josh getting his camera ready for action
Here we're sitting at the dried up Twin Falls.

Inside of rock.

Homemade cookies are a great walking snack!

Top of a mountain, Josh was pretty stoked.
1/31/09

Soooo beautiful!!

This looks like fun in the summer.

A cave.

We found a cave and a small amount of water at Barton Creek.
1/31/09

This is a random video of one of the first times I drove alone in early December, going up this ramp used to be extremely frightening for me.. I think I have the hang of it by now ;)

Lately

2009-02-08T13:24:00.000-08:00

We think we owe you all a little update ;)

Last Friday night Josh & I went to Wal-Mart to pick up our futon mattress for the frame we got at a thrift shop. When we got home we set up camp in the living room with a salad & wrap from Baby Greens and a movie. Saturday we took a 3 hour, or so, walk through a new part of Barton Creek we've never seen. The weather was beautiful, in the 70's. After our walk we went over to Home Slice Pizza for a pitcher of Lonestar and a Margarita pizza out on the back patio. It was really the perfect ending to our long walk to sit in the sun, drink some ice cold beers & eat some delicious pizza! The rest of the night we spent hanging out & Sunday we ran some errands and played frisbee in the park. The wind was kicking our asses and ruining our game, so we went home to watch the Cardinals vs. the Steelers.

The week was busy, both of us working. I got fitted for my bride's maid dress for Kristi's wedding on Tuesday. and Wednesday I made Mucho Margarita cupcakes to send to New Jersey for Mom's birthday. (which was on Thursday the 5th, Happy Birthday, Mom!!)

This past Friday we went to Hickory Stree t for beers & food. Afterward, we headed to see the video premiere for the new Alien Workshop video, Mind Field, hosted by No Comply skate shop. It was a lot of fun and I always enjoy a skateboard event Josh takes me to. Saturday was first Saturday at Independent Brewery but the wind was too much to sit in a parking lot to drink free beer. We took the bus to Maria's for some tacos and later on took a walk to Stacy Park. The wind had calmed down a bit & it turned out to be a beautiful night. Since it was so nice we walked down to the SoCo district on South Congress to see what people were up to. We sat on a ledge & people watched for a little bit. Hey Cupcake was too tempting not to stop, so we shared a 24 Carrot before heading home. Leading us to today where we went food shopping & now I am making this blog!

Also, big news!! Juli comes to visit this Wednesday-Monday and I couldn't be more excited!! I have big plans for her visit, we're going to have a blast.

The Tuesday after Juli leaves (boo!) Josh & I are taking a cooking class together at Whole Foods Culinary Center. The class is called Hot! Hot! Hot! We'll be making barbecued stuffed paneer, andhra chicken curry, spinach toor dal, apple cumin raita and basmati rice. The following Thursday I'll be taking the class Icing on the Cake. I'm extemely excited to be able to take some cooking classes, especially cake decorating!

Things have been going pretty well here in Austin. We haven't been updating as much now that we have jobs. I'm currently working on getting the videos onto the computer. Something's wrong with my camera & it's been having issues taking videos off, which is why there's been a dely in those.

Expect some photos & video's shortly! (I hope.. I'm still fighting with the camera, grr)

xoxo,

Danielle

Whats New?

2009-01-21T08:35:00.001-08:00

Not much going on down here in the Lone Star state. Weathers been a little iffy but I can't complain since I know whats going on back home. Danielle's job is going great and I have been working at Thundercloud Subs which is a hip local sub shop. I also volunteered at the gallery Arthouse in downtown. I got to network with some of the visitors and artist, plus shoot photos of the event. It was a lot of fun here's a link to the photos I took, look I got photo credit! Arthouse blog. Please click on the underlined/highlighted text it will lead you to information regarding this post. Love you all and stay warm.

-Josh

Christmas and New Years Post

2009-01-04T18:45:00.000-08:00

Sorry it took us so long to make a new post everyone.

Weekend before Christmas.

Danielle in the great outdoors of Barton Creek.

Found some water and it was crystal clear.

Austin is so pretty at night.
After playing Frisbee, listening to Christmas music coming from the city.

Chillin out on our beautiful Christmas Eve. I think it was like 70 out.

I get into Frisbee look at the determination in my eye. Eyes on the prize.

Danielle and our new pet.

This Giraffe was bucking hard. It eventually threw me off but I think I had the upper hand.

Danielle posing with the gifts, way too early for photos.

Me posing with the presents. I just woke up too so leave me alone.

Once again Danielle made a tasty meal for the two of us.

Our Christmas tree after we put all of our new ornaments on it.

The Oasis is a tasty restaurant in the Lake Travis area that is built on the side of a cliff next to the lake. Makes for a really cool dinning experience. Plus as expensive as it looks we found some pretty cheap very good food with a beautiful veiw.

12/26/08

This is looking up at a house on a cliff side in the Lake Travis area.

Back to the green belt.

12/28/08

I guess when there was water here someone lost there swim shoe. At least if they come back they can still get it.

I've become one with nature.

Too bad we didn't have this before Christmas.

Yeah Texas is in a huge drought right now. This use to be a swimming hole but is now just a pile of dangerous rocks.

Its hard to see but this rock is like chalk and I was able to carve a heart with our names in it with a stick.

Glow sticks and light sabers make for great swirly pictures.
New Years Eve in Zilker Park.

This was the start of New Years Eve. We went to First Night which is a family event where bands play and this year the burning of a 34 foot clock tower.

The Burning Clock, click the link to watch a closer video of it.

This picture is of three masked people. They where standing next to the fire but moved when it started getting hot.

After a few minutes of burning, the hot ash went into the air and then back down onto everyone. I feel bad for that camera man in the Cherry Picker.

6th Street was hoping that night. Music, people and enough police to arrest every person in Austin.

New Years Ball at Pure Ultra Lounge. Too bad we didn't stay for the count down. Our legs were hurting so bad since we walked everywhere.

New Years Day!!!

We found this nice waterfall spot in Barton Creek but of course someone had to sit right next to us. So we left to go find a more secluded area.

1/2/09

Scary, Scary!!

Weird vegetation that you wont ever see on the East Coast.

Look at that hottie!

Snack time! (delicious muffins, thanks Kristi!!)

Can't wait to go tubing down this!

(Josh posted this blog without videos we've made.. for some reason it's hard getting them off of my camera so hopefully soon we'll get a few up!)

update soon!

2009-01-02T07:18:00.000-08:00

We know we owe you all a HUGE update! We have photos from more outside hikes and adventures, Christmas, New Years & LOTS more. Hopefully by the end of the weekend we'll have them all up.

We've been keeping ourselves pretty busy. I finally got a job! I'm the new receptionist for the Art Institute of Austin. Good pay, great benefits, etc. It's definitely making this feel more worth it. (Besides all of the other great things we've been doing & experiencing) We're loving Austin more & more and we're definitely glad we decided to take the risk.

We also hope you guys come visit soon so we can show you around & have you see what we love about it so much! ;) We'll post our pictures soon! (i think i have over 120 on my camera now between photos & videos)

xoxo,

Danielle & Josh

A little something

2008-12-17T19:43:00.000-08:00

Danielle and I went back to Mt. Bonnell and took this shot on Sunday the 14th, aww aren't we so cute. Notice how we are wearing t-shirts; well the next day it dropped down into the 30's, not so nice.

This weird little bug was crawling on our Christmas lights the other day.

This was a photo I took after Danielle made some Guacamole. Avocado, Garlic and a little Lime.

This is the Diptych I made from the series of shots that I did. Scrapes on the left and tasty Guacamole on the right, yum.

My latest Oil painting, looks like crap in this picture. In real life it's pretty cool I used Coffee to make all the brown specs found in it.

Yeah not too much to write about but just wanted to post something for everyone that cares.

This week...

2008-12-07T20:42:00.001-08:00

Wednesday, December 3rd
Wednesday we re tried Mount Bonnell and it was perfect.

This is the most epic view ever.

Found a spot to sit on the side of a huge cliff.

I could have fell on someones million dollar home.

Re traced our steps at Zilker Park.

The entire day was amazing then all the sudden a cold front moved in and created these interesting clouds.

Our Christmas tree!

Saturday, December 6th
Randomly found this brewery down the street from us that has an event every first Saturday of the month. If you have a pint glass you get three free pint sized glasses of some tasty beer.

We bought glasses since we didn't have any with us. Someone should have told us the rules to this before we came.

Awww

The inside of Independence Brewery.

There was a band.

This barely shows how many people were there.

Yumm!!!

She is cute.

Unfortunately, they ran out of free beer. We had an extra ticket from someone too. Oh well save it for next time. So we headed home..

Found this monster Agave walking back to our place.

Sunday December 7th
Rachael Ray book signing, look at the line. Maybe we should have left sooner.

There she is! Danielle is freaking out at this point.

Danielle with her best friend Rachael Ray. We met up with Rach at a local bar later and caught up on old times; just kidding.

rachael ray!

2008-12-01T10:55:00.000-08:00

yup, she's signing books at a really neat store called Book People on dec. 7th at 5pm! you need to buy her new book AND buy a ticket to get her to sign it, which i don't have money to do, but i think i'll go stalk her anyways ;) YES!

Thanksgiving Weekend

2008-11-30T13:50:00.001-08:00

This was a composite we did the night before Thanksgiving.

Brunch or Lunch?

Our raw turkey, in the seasoning and buttering stage.

Danielle cutting some butter for later use.

We're planning on making a cook book since Danielle is the amazing chef that she is. Look for it in stores soon... Just kidding.

Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies!!!

This is the inside of our fridge, nice huh?

I found a desk out "near" the dumpster and brought it inside. I decided to paint on it since it was pretty boring looking.

My cool waves.

Multi colored because one color just isn't enough.

Our delicious Sangria's.

Watch out Rachel Ray.

Yum!

She was in the zone.

Green bean fun.

Mashing the potatoes.

Danielle's got that look in her eye.

Let the feast begin.

Kinda hard when you don't have someone to hold the camera.

The next day we went to a place called Mount Bonnell which has a really big set of stairs to walk up.

The view was well worth it. To bad it immediately started to rain after I shot this picture.

Saturday we explored Zilker Park which is like the biggest park in Austin.

I hope this isn't a part of the bridge that they need.

We have seen a lot of unicycles since we got here, very weird.

Austin on a gloomy day.

This is the Christmas version of a hunted house on Halloween.

Santa of the future.

Danielle was chillin with Poo Bear and his Hunny Wagon.

This picture has nothing to do with any thing I just really like it.

The MPV is a beast.

Danielle-Blair Witch Project. Spooky, eh?

I got an Agave Americana to beat up Danielle's Planty. I named him Agave because when you already have a name like that why change it.

Sunday we went to Barton Creek Greenbelt. Which is part of Zilker Park, Austin is crazy on parks. This one had designated places for rock climbing.

Its crazy becuase one we are still in the city and two because this is only a 10 minute drive from our place.

Found a cenapeed doing cenapeed things.

I went rock climbing with no ropes, hahaha just kidding Mom.

I climbed up into a little cave.

This looks weird I know but this rock was shaped like a helmet of sorts. I would have stuck my head in there but I saw spider webs.

Standing in a stream bed that has dried up a little.

Danielle is a modern day pioneer.

It looked like conceret but it was rock.

I may never run out of interesting pictures from this place.

Dead Catus.

Me climbing some more, this time less dangerous.

Ths cliffs where amazing such a beautiful day.

The fisheye made this look way scaryer than it actually was.

The further we walked North the bigger things got.

Someone put together a make shift shelter so I checked it out.

This was the window for the shelter.

Theres all kinds of pointy vegatation in Texas.

This was a big pile of what looked like drift wood.

This bridge was closed but we decided to go over it any way. That's that see you next time.

ps.

2008-11-26T13:48:00.001-08:00

i have made our blog so that anyone can post, even without a membership. we weren't aware that we had it on that setting so now anyone can comment if you'd like. <3

thanksgiving is tomorrow!

2008-11-26T13:08:00.000-08:00

i, more than anyone, realize we are not going to be home for thanksgiving dinner. thanksgiving is not only my favorite holiday because you get to eat a ton of delicious food, but you get to cook it, which is my favorite, and enjoy it with the ones you love.

we'll be alright though. we got a 12 pound turkey (lots of leftovers!), stove top stuffing (josh loves that stuff), i'll be making mashed potatoes, garlic steamed string beans, rolls and, yes, a pumpkin pie topped with whipped cream. for our cocktail, we'll be trying out a mulled red wine sangria.
i'll admit, it is going to be lonely making and eating all of this food, just the two of us. and it's going to be scary making a turkey all by myself for the first time and a pumkpin pie, something i've never done before either. but i love cooking and i enjoy this challenge. i hope one day i can have huge family feasts at mine & josh's home for the holidays.

i am definitely missing everyone back home. so far it's mainly felt like a vacation and then i remember i don't know when the next time i'll see any of my family members will be. it's all apart of the adventure, though. living in the moment, exploring a new city, it's been a blast. as a reminder, this is not forever, and if we don't get decent jobs or we just don't feel like being here anymore, we will be back in 6 months and call it the amazing experience it will be/has been. it shouldn't be something anyone is sad over, we haven't died, and you should come visit!! even though i'm a hypocrite with the sad part.. i just can't help my aching heart from missing everyone back home!

speaking of visiting, we can't wait to show you around & bring you to all of the fun places we've been to. last night josh and i were trying to decide what to have for dinner, since we don't have much food in the apartment. we wanted something cheap and tasty and we've heard nothing but good things about Maria's Taco Xpress so we decided to stop by. it was definitely all of the great things we've heard and more! we got a chicken fajita, al pastor, chips & salsa with a side of beans for 8$! the food was great and the set up of the joint was comfortable and fun. too bad the girl working at the counter didn't speak much english so we couldn't explore their happy hour, but it was still a great time.

jobs are unfortunately still up in the air. i have an interview monday at a daycare and i'm keeping my fingers crossed about that. once we're making money, any kind of money, things will feel more complete. until then, we'll keep ourselves cheaply entertained and continue applying!

enjoy your thanksgiving, family & friends. we miss you, we love you to death and we cannot wait to see you again.

i'll tell you the one thing i do not miss is the weather! today: 72 and sunny.

xoxo, danielle & josh

East Austin Studio Tour

2008-11-24T16:49:00.000-08:00

So Danielle and I met with a couple of new friends and took a tour of the East Austin Studio Tour.

E.A.S.T. is in its seventh year and is where artist open their studios or homes to the public for one weekend.

It's a chance for people to see where the magic happens.

This little girl was one of the artist daughters and of course was playing with paint.

Each studio/home was marked with a number and there was a map given out of the entire tour area.

I really enjoyed Jeffery Swanson's work.

The owners of this space had a goat and a stage full of old type writers. Artist are pretty weird.

This is Danielle and I going super fast on a scooter in the city, good times.

This space was really interesting, it was a co op which had multiple artist within the building.

This is the back yard at Okay Mountain, which is the greatest gallery I've ever been to.

Me standing outside of Okay Mountain after a long day of walking with a camera bag on my back, yeppy!

We Made It!!!!

2008-11-22T12:29:00.001-08:00

We made it 78 degrees and Sunny!!

Home Slice Pizza's Birthday in Soco. There is always something going on in Austin.

Hey Cupcake

This one's for you Brittany, a cup cake vendor. Yeah a freaking cup cake vendor.

Our bathroom.

Hallway from the bedroom to the kitchen and living room area.

Our kitchen is awesome. Got to love the bar window thingy that separates the dinning room from the kitchen.

Danielle made some tofu fried rice that was very delicious.

My chef at work.

Our big balcony with a pretty crappy view but once we get some plants other than planty it will look a lot better.

Me eating poor man style.

Danielle's first interview was on a rare cold day.

I went out and took some pictures.

Nothing beats exploring a new city with a camera in hand.

H-E-B is our new super market which has some pretty cool stuff in it. Well really the only thing cool was the Beer isle.

Whole Foods is probably the coolest market in the world.

Waiting on Congress Ave. for the bus after our first Improv experience.

The club behind me was hopping that night.

The Move

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Danielle, Planty and Josh on the start of their adventure to Texas.

Mountains in Strasburg, VA behind Denny's.

Pit stop in Roanoke, VA due to faulty tires. We decide to get drinks from the Mexican Restaurant across the street to ease our pain.

The start of our second day with new rear tires. Lets see if we can make it to Little Rock, AR.

Tennessee!!!

My brief ride in the passenger seat. Danielle can't handle the open road this lasted maybe ten minutes.

Nashville, TN!!

Beautiful Tennessee sunset.

Our huge room at the Days Inn in Little Rock, AR.

Nothing to interesting around here.

Little Rock, AR is really little, no pun intended.

This was near the town of Hope, AR birthplace of former President Bill Clinton.

Dallas, TX we actually made it to Texas!!!

Three and a half hours from now Austin, TX...