Happy (almost) Friday! I’ve had a little bit of a crazy work week that also involved a quick trip to Austin for our annual team retreat, so I thought I’d share a few snaps.
Though we had two cold and rainy days in Austin, the trip was productive and we even squeezed in a little fun, starting our day with a scavenger hunt via Watson Adventures.
The seven of us split up into two teams and walked around the city finding all of the clues and the extra challenges were to take certain photos like “two heads popping out of something” and “ordering or eating food in a strange way.” The fun is all in seeing how each team came up with their photo ideas. I snapped most of the photos so I’m just in a few of the 10 or so we had to complete.
We tried to spell out “y’all”…and it didn’t work out quite how we envisioned…but…FREE HUGS! Seriously, there are people who stood outside all day offering free hugs. #onlyinaustin.
We stayed at the Hotel San Jose. I wish it had been warmer because they had a really cool heated pool.
You can’t tell in the above photo, but in our welcome buckets there was a box of Sarah’s Kale Chips and they are UNBELIEVABLE. Like, I’m literally eating them as I type this at 8:30 at night unbelievable.
Wednesday night we went out for pizza (I forget what the restaurant was called but it was busy and the food was delicious) followed by a visit to Amy’s Ice Creams. I got the Mexican vanilla with extra cookie dough. Highly recommended.
I've always wanted to do a 'staycation' at Hotel San Jose. The pizza place you went to was probably Home Slice.
It was right by the hotel— so if that's the one near there, then it probably was! 🙂
It looks like you guys had a good time! I've always wanted to visit Austin. It seems like such a fun city.
My sister is relocating to Austin later this spring and I see many visits in my future to this cool Texas city. Thanks for sharing!
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my only child will be in Austin or SXSW festival soon, she hates to leave this event, she adores Austin, if she had the wherewithal she would reside in the most creative and eclectic city in all of the USA! She always picks me up something from the festival and her daddy too, people ask me all year long where I got the item of clothing I always say my only got it at the south by southwest festival in Austin, tx they just look and me and say oh well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! have a great week and happy Chinese new year come feb 19 2015 year of the wooden sheep to boot!
It was probably Home Slice. They're down the street from San Jose. Love their eggplant pizza. YUM!
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i really love posts of your recent purchases! thank you!