Phew, I am exhausted. And dehydrated, but that’s my own fault for not drinking enough water for three days of playing in the sun. I did manage to escape without any hint of a sunburn–my mom is so proud! So contrary to my earlier post about toobing the Guadalupe, apparently people go to other places…
Category: Things to do … all the time
Review: The Grove Wine Bar / Kitchen
It was my first food-induced coma. A friend and I went to The Grove Wine Bar / Kitchen for a leisurely lunch today. It’s a new wine bar/restaurant just west of the corner of 360 and Bee Caves, on Bee Caves. It has an awesome patio with huge tress shading the entire thing–hence the name…
Toobin’
Now that summer is pretty much here in Austin–only a few rare May days requiring a sweatshirt remain–plenty of Austinites will head south to the river(s) to float the Guadalupe or Comal from Gruene, New Braunfels, San Marcos, or one of the little other towns. I think the average float trip goes something like this:…
Polish Horseshoes
While camping this past weekend, a friend from Vermont introduced us to a game he calls Polish Horseshoes. A google search revealed that “polish horseshoes” apparently has something to do with washers … which are cool and all, but not an awesome new game I wanted to share with y’all. For lack of a better…
Joy o joy, Dhaba Joy!
When I first stopped in to Dhaba Joy to see what a vegan bakery looked like, and because I had read tons of awesome reviews on yelp.com, I got a vegan cookie. It was the most amazing, succulent, delicious cookie of my entire life. I became obsessed, and took everyone I knew there, and they…
Costco Liquors vs. Spec’s
I’m hosting a Kentucky Derby party on Saturday afternoon–more because it was a good excuse to get dressed up than because I’m super-into the Derby itself–so I set out on my buying liquor mission yesterday. Before Spec’s came to town, Costco Liquors was THE cheapest place to buy liquor (and a small selection of beer…
Review: Sago Modern Mexican
Based on cocktails and appetizers alone, Sago was delicious! Their signature Z-Martini is a spicy-sweet number sweetened with agave nectar–low on the GI scale, so less of an impact on your blood sugar!–and it even has little pieces of crushed jalapeno floating throughout! We also tried a martini whose name I can’t remember, sort of…
What to do on Wednesday
Wednesday this week is offering a doubleheader of athletic options. There’s always SoCo Run Club, the awesome run club I won’t stop talking about, but now there’s a new competitor: Wednesday pickup volleyball at Zilker. So, there’s a friend of mine who started the meetup.com volleyball group (you can access it through atxvb.com too ……
Free yoga class! at lululemon
When I was a wee intern at Shape magazine, I was in charge of organizing the fashion samples that came in. It was there I learned to love lululemon athletica, this super-soft, super-stylish brand of yoga gear. Apparently it’s more than just yoga gear, but that’s the styling it has. Literally, they use the softest…
Bikram – The Hot – Yoga
So I skipped run club in favor of Bikram Yoga with my girls. Of course, I was late, so it’s not like we hung out, but still, it’s a cute idea. Sweating together. 🙂 I did not think Bikram sounded good at all when I first heard about it. The room is 108 degress, you…