Fourth of July

First off, nice work on Boggle!! I think 6 comments is a record. I'm back for a recap of our 4th of July weekend. On Friday we drove out to Lake Travis (near Austin) to meet one of Edwin's good college friends and her boyfriend's friends/family. They were renting a great VRBO house for the week. We were lucky enough to go out on their boat for the day. I found a google image of a similar boat for Adam to see:

On Saturday Edwin and I celebrated our country's independence by eating meat. Lots of meat. In the afternoon we went to a German draft house that had FREE brats! They were delicious. We went to see Larry Crowne later, which we would give 3 stars. It was funny and pretty cheesy. For the record, I would rather watch Julia Roberts in a happy role than in an angry, moody role. Her smile and laugh are what made her famous! I digress. After the movie we got dinner at Mighty Fine Burger Co., a local burger chain. They use really good beef, etc. It was delicious and we won some points for supporting local businesses (ie Austin's "Keep Austin Weird" campaign).

On Sunday we got to see Kieley and Jack! Kieley is our friend from the Valley, and Jack is her adorable Australian Shepherd. See their adventures here.

Jack was especially happy to see Edwin since he doesn't have a lot of male role models. Kieley is teaching another year in the Valley (God bless her) which is great for us since she (and Hannah) can visit!

Unfortunately Austin (and most of Texas) is under severe drought conditions and all fireworks were canceled, so we didn't see any live fireworks on Monday. Luckily for us the Macy's NYC fireworks were on. Sadly the holiday ousted the Bachelorette from airing on Monday night. Sigh. We made an awesome meal on Monday which Edwin will be back to report sometime soon!