Well, I am back in California after a really awesome trip to Texas. I am beat!
Yesterday Tara, Cindy, Julie and I headed up I-35 to Austin, the state capitol.
We just drove by the actual capitol – we had better things to do, such as stopping at Hill Country Weavers, where I totally gorged on sock yarn:
Here’s what I bought:
Nature’s Palette, Jitterbug, Araucania Ranco Multy, Araucania Ranco Multy, Jitterbug, and Malabrigo Worsted.
I love Hill Country Weavers. If you are ever in Austin, you must stop there!
The girls were pretty cool about me dragging them to a yarn store, since none of them knit. I think part of it had to do with the intriguing Airstream right across the street:
Did we totally partake of cupcakes following the yarning? Yes, yes we did.
After that, we stopped at the huge Half Price Books on North Lamar, then headed back to San Antonio.
And took a lot of pictures. As you can see, I am now a redhead, courtesy of Garnier Fructisse.
I had a GREAT TIME on vacation. I miss Texas a lot. But it was good to get home, especially when I knew this was waiting for me:
(Note the chapstick for scale!) It’s my new tiny laptop, an Eee PC. I was hoping it would arrive prior to the trip, but it didn’t. It’s Linux, which I was expecting to be difficult to get used to, but it’s easy and I love it.
Now I am broke, but it was SO WORTH IT – the trip, the computer (though that was courtesy of the U.S. Government and their ESP [hahaha esp]), and seeing my best girlfriends. I am mentally recharged and ready to write – and finally finish a novel or too.
Also: damn, June already? Yikes.
