Austin {A morning on SoCo}

This will be the last of my Austin posts. Sorry if you’re bored, but it’s just such a beautiful city and I love sharing bits and pieces of it with you. Sadly, though I’m running out of iPhone pics from our fun trip… and I’m still lamenting that fact that I forgot my DSLR. I’ve been so bad about hauling out the big camera ever since we got back from Australia. Must change that…

We spent our final morning in Austin browsing the shops and grabbing lunch on South Congress. I’ve never been to the SoCo neighborhood before, and I must say it was a delight. I have, however, been wondering where I might find Austin’s “I love you so much” wall that I frequently see on Instagram. Turns out it’s on the side of Jo’s Coffee on SoCo. Of course, we took plenty of pictures by it.

After our coffee stop, we wandered in and out of all the cute little boutiques on both sides of the street. Lots of cute clothes, but I wasn’t in the mood to splurge. I really liked going into one of The Impeccable Pig’s brick and mortar stores after shopping their website for so long now. So many cute dresses there. So many.

I didn’t actually consider opening my wallet to buy anything though until we made our way down to Uncommon Objects. If you haven’t heard of this place before, you are missing out. It’s an awesome shop full of whimsical antiques. Every corner of the store is covered, floor to ceiling, with the most impressive curated displays of the most random knickknacks and cool pieces of furniture. It seriously took me a good 30 minutes to get through the shop, and I felt slightly rushed at that pace. In fact, I took so long that the girls left me there and walked over to Guero’s Taco Bar to order lunch while I finished my perusing. Although I wanted to buy a number of things in the store, I settled on just one purchase…. a horseshoe {made in Texas} for my gallery wall.

{Technically, my gallery wall exists only in my mind at this point, but I have been collecting things for it since last spring and the horseshoe was a nice addition…. maybe in our next house I will actually create this imagined wall. Just thought you should have this disclaimer.}

I met the girls at the restaurant, where we scarfed down some delicious tacos {and, of course, more queso} before we had to take Sarah and Whitney to the airport. Such a fun weekend with some of my favorite girls. Thankfully, my flight didn’t take off for a few more hours which gave my sister and I a chance to stop by the performing arts school where she works and play on the gymnastics equipment in the gym. Then I said my final goodbyes to Texas and my sissy over a bowl of Amy’s Ice Cream. Gosh, I love Amy’s Ice Creams. And I love Texas. The end.