Everything's Bigger in Texas

Ryan and I got a group of friends together, and went out on an adventure!  We had heard of this place called "Big Lou's" that sold enormous pizzas, and we had to see it to believe it.  Well, we saw it.  WOW.  Huge!  The 42 inch pizza had slices that were bigger than our babies, and eating one piece about did you in.  Although the drive was rainy and traffic was terrible, we all decided it was worth it.  We are brainstorming what the next group food outing will be...giant burgers?  Grande shakes?  

So the next day, our little family went on our own little escapade.  We drove up past Austin to Round Rock - hit traffic on the way and went on a little backroad past the freeway, took way too long going through IKEA, fed a hungry baby in the car (multiple times), ate at a yummy place called Torchy's Taco's, drove on a toll road past the crazy traffic of Austin, stopped at Buc-ees in New Braunfel's, and made it back by dinner time.  Whoa.  I think we will wait a few weekends before we do that again!  It definitely was a very long day in the car, which made for a sad little babe, but we really liked doing something different and exploring the new world around us.  So far we have come to the conclusion that Austin feels familiar - more of a Portland feel (especially since they decided to COPY Portland and have the slogan "Keep Austin Weird" everywhere...) It was surprisingly green and seemed to have all sorts of fun things going on.  We will definitely visit again!

*Buc-ees is the largest Gas Pump Station in the country and largest Convenience store in the world!  It had walls and walls of snacks and drinks, and the nicest bathrooms I'd been in for a long time - so random and SO Texas!