Day 11, The “Wurst” birthday ever.

Sorry for the long delay in blog posts, but there really isn’t much to report from Austin during to work week. Being unemployed is a double edged sword, on one hand you have no obligations and are free to do whatever you want—like a vacation! On the other hand you have no money, and can’t afford to do anything fun. Madelyn and I have been spending our time looking for jobs, and getting familiar with the city. A blog entry from last week would have read like this: Woke up, looked for jobs, went jogging, ate lunch, looked for jobs, watched Law and Order, ate dinner, watched more TV, went to bed…….rinse and repeat…. In other words, you haven’t been missing anything.



This weekend I had two days of birthday celebrations. On Friday Madelyn took me out to dinner to the Oasis, which is a restaurant on Lake Travis. It was really nice to sit outside and eat in the middle of November. We have had record high temperatures this week, Friday it was in the upper 80s. This restaurant says it has the “Best Sunsets in Texas”, so we had an early dinner and enjoyed the view. Here are some pictures:







On Saturday we went to my aunt’s house in New Braunfels and had some lunch with the whole family before heading over to “Wurstfest”. For those unfamiliar with Wurstfest, it’s a big German festival also referred to as “The 10 day salute to sausage”. It’s held in a giant old warehouse and it was packed! It took us a while to find a table and then we literally had to fight people off who were trying to steal our chairs! Lot’s of polka, beer, sausage, and Germans. We both had nutritious, balanced meals for dinner that night—one sausage on a stick and one giant turkey leg. I think that any food that is served on a stick is high class.