Friday is Date Day for Hubby and me. That usually means lunch and a movie in Kyle or San Marcos, the two nearest theater locations. Lately, however, we seem to be having more and more trouble finding movies we both want to see. I guess we are no longer of an age to be included in movie-makers' target audiences. Kind of funny, though, when you consider that we now have more leisure time and money to spend than we ever did before! Anywho, Friday before last was one of those days, so Hubby decided to plan a mystery adventure in old east Austin -- one of the last bastions of Austin's former funkiness. Our adventure began here, at a Chinese bar/restaurant called Old Thousand. The food was okay, but the decor was way fun!
Coming out of the restaurant was kind of depressing, however. If you looked to the left you could see wonderful remnants of Old Austin...
but glance to your right, towards the highway, and you see nothing but the march of massive condo developments, eating up everything in their path.
Our next stop was a tiny little gallery called Link & Pin, with a really big-to-me art show going on -- one called Heroines + Warriors + Goddesses, featuring the work of three artists, Helen Rose Buck, Rhea Pettit, and Neena Buxoni.
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| Hubby loved it too -- especially the portraits of Pink and Ann Richards, two of his idols! |
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| The H.E. Building, Where Most Of My UT Classes Took Place |
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| The Dorm Where I Lived My First Two Years In College |
The rest of the date was spent wandering around the UT campus, including my old dorm, where we met and fell in love while both working part-time in the dorm's cafeteria. There were also trips to the Student Union and the University Co-Op, which has a super great art supply addition now.
It was a very good date day!
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