Austin, J-choc's view, day one. Aaaand go!

It’s only Wednesday and I’ve already had a pretty intense spring break. How do explain three days of spring break in Austin with the some of the best most original people on the planet. You can’t. BUT I WILL TRY!

Well, it all started with a wish to fly to NY. Didn’t happen, and then came the idea for pretty pimpin' Austin. We set it up around some of our lovely friends’ birthdays. What ensued was… heh I don’t know. I love you guys. =)

So the first day, we gathered downstairs, collected our luggage, and made sure that our good friend Don was “with us” (via a printed picture of his smiling face!). We split up into our respective cars and drove our merry way. While I’ve heard some crazy awesome things in the other cars from “it’s a Peter-car thing” to consensual (or not?) sexual encounters, the car peeps I hung out with, well, we had a great time too. It was me, Brian and Kristen all hanging out while Brian drove. We saw lots of cows and condemned houses, we threw Brian’s food out the sun/moon roof—well, Brian did this once while I held the wheel at like 70mph. Don’t worry, we’re all alive.

We made it to Czech stop (in West, TX—an actual place!!), an awesome bakery with longs lines and delicious smelling Kolaches which were bought and shared all around. Gathered in front of the main entrance, we acted silly and had a good time as usual.

Hopping back into the car, we hit the slowest traffic ever. We creeped into the next city over by mere inches. But that was okay because we made it to our swanky hotel and saw creepy people outside.

Of course we found our respective rooms, watched TV and chilled, then jumped into action when Brian walked through the door a little later. Surprise! It was his day, and man, did he put up a struggle when he was held down and had a shirt shoved down over his face. He ended up liking the shirt. It was Pulp Fiction—it was a great choice and he wore it with pride.

For his birthday, we went to super-fun-happy-zone (hehe) and it was amazing. I bet the food would’ve tasted better if I were a bit younger. BUT-BUT-BUT we had as much fun as any of those ten year olds while in the arcade!! We all went around, choosing different games to play. Quan had this awesome game face while riding a motorcycle game. According to pictures, Sam and Anh had fun shooting up various enemies, and Don even got to play Soul Calibur 2! (with a little bit of help from Cheryl) Me and the guys played a hoops game (very addicting). First, Brian and I played a round, then we frantically got change to buy more tokens for another round, and then we got the rest of guys out for yet another round and just played like nobody’s business. (see the progression?)

Well, then we did DDR (dance dance revolution, baby!) and it was fun. Soon we had teams and everyone was designated a certain half of the dance board. All in all, there was a display of dance moves from: Brian, Kristen, Cheryl, Anh, Bich, Quan, and myself. It was the most ridiculously fun thing I’ve done in awhile, and I’m glad that I did it with these crazy fellows. =)

Whew, still day one.

That night, we went to a pretty nice restaurant. Had some unpronounceable food that we probably might not try again (taste testing other plates became the norm) and had a cool waitress who didn’t laugh at us when we placed Don on the table with a candle in front. She even took our picture for us! The place was beautiful and the atmosphere comfortable and chic. We all dressed like we had it going on. I’d go again in a heartbeat, but I need a $$$-paying job and a handle on the Italian language. (which may take awhile, I think)

The city was amazing at night. The store walls were works of art. All were unique and had their own character which couldn’t by replicated by making chain stores. --Man, I love this city...

We saw a film screening of Bruno. (Brian was pretty excited!) I must say, if there’s anything you can get from Austin, one of those would be an honest, unique, and fun culture. There were lines outside and everyone looked ready to have a good time, regardless of what was up. Where I’m schooling now, I don’t think anybody would be willing to go have fun and do what he/she wanted without wondering who was there or what they looked like. Sorry, segue there...

But yeah, Bruno was so funny it was crazy. I’d love to tell you more, but sorry! Pre-screening! (however, if you haven’t seen Borat you should probably do that first hehe). This guy hosting the event was one of the highlights. He joked around with us, fully convinced me not to record ANY of the event because his suggestions, and was just so cool. Tossing down the mike was just the icing on the already delicious cake.

After that, we made interesting detours (of course we weren’t lost!) around downtown-ish Austin trying to get back to our hotel. (we would end up making a lot of those on this trip) It was a cool night and we saw a lot of sights, but we were kind of pooped afterwards. We had to quit playing Taboo and watching youtube vids. Tomorrow we were gonna be up for quite awhile…..