Austin

It rained all day yesterday, but Casee, Steph and I went down to Austin regardless. We had such a good time! We started by hitting up Ikea and REI in Round Rock where I got a wine rack, new down pillows, and drapes and a kick ass hoodie. Casee had never eaten at Ikea so we did that too. Next we migrated down to Whole Foods to get groceries. I actually bought 5 bottles of wine under the "well I just got a wine rack" excuse. YESS! There is another REI next to the Whole Foods so we went there, cause they had a better tent selection. I ended up getting the new Half Dome 2 tent, since it was much cheaper than the Mountain Hardware tent and both were 3-pole tent constructions. I'm really bummed I even needed to buy a new tent, I loved the old Half Dome and wish they hadn't messed with the design. Also I ended getting a Solio, solar panel charger. Next Casee, Steph and I went down to South Congress. We hit up Gueros and Casee was hysterical. She was hitting on our very cute waiter and ended up leaving him her number. Girl definitely has guts. Then we walked along South Congress showing Casee some of the cute stores. I had always wanted to go into one, Lucy in Disguise with Diamonds, which I heard is the ultimate in costume stores. We went in and it DEFINITELY is. We ended up trying on all these costumes.

Casee and Steph wearing Texas sized hats.

Casee and I tried to put these on, but they were fastened close! Damn I was excited to try on Kiss boots/fall on my face walking.

French maid and Mermaid?

Steph trying to look all American.

Casee and me.

Casee

Me as a Fraggle!

We also decided to have a costume party for Mardi Gras. There was a whole section of these in the store that we went through. Many of the costumes looked like something Betty White may have worn on Golden girls. However, there was one costume of GENUIS

This costume inspired us to think beyond their Mardi Gras section and these costumes might be "appropriate" for such a party. Something like this outfit

OR this top

with these bottoms

LOL should be a good Mardi Gras party. We ended the night at Hey Cupcake! and then drove back to Waco in the rain. We got back around 9 and Kelly and Michelle joined us and we played Apples to Apples until midnight when everyone went home. All in all a REALLY fun girls day. It really was just what I needed. However, now that I have new pillows I really don't want to get out of bed, like ever. Probably not good for productivity but I have a 4 day weekend to enjoy myself sooo. Hope everyone has as many good people around them. I am pretty fortunate.