These are some shots from our balcony. Ada is embracing her new home nicely as you can see. The view of the city is much better at sunset when you can enjoy the warm colors swirled everywhere. At night, we can always count on hearing some live music from below at "The Tiniest Bar in Texas," and loads of lights fill the cityscape. Our balcony is large enough to set out a full-size dinner table, as well as add some chairs for lounging with a cold one. We hope to have many a meal and chill time out there once the oh-so-brief winter weather comes to an end. And I guess we might need a table and chairs as well. Having any sort of outside to play with Ada and watch the trains, right in our backyard, may be my favorite thing about our new place.

Austin Factoid: It seems every Austinite with a bike owns a Bianchi.

Welcome to Ada's world of crawling! You will probably be seeing a lot of this cheeky wonder. Is this font big and obnoxious? Feel free to vote on that...

Since we have loads of photos already, I will just throw out some random facts and thoughts along with a shot or two.






Some things we miss about Raleigh that Austin just can't do for us:

1. signs of autumn
2. NC farmers
3. YOU
4. composting (Austin is known for its green thumb, but our lawn is 20 floors down)
5. Lilly's tofu salad
6. not getting lost in whole foods, or losing my family (well... it can be fun)
7. less fit people (i'm serious yo. maybe it's my building or something, but Lance has a serious influence here!)

That should suffice for now. Maybe more to come. This is our hallway.

Disclaimer

Ok, so I am new to the world of blog; go easy on me. I want to capture some of our time here on "paper" in Austin for Ada's sake, as well as yours. The fact that this entry, and every one following for that matter, is not on real paper stowed away in a journal is a big step for me. (Three cheers!)

That said, we are well. We haven't a community here yet, but we have each other, right? All you need is love. And maybe a few groceries. And an Ikea, which has been our one-stop make-your-house-a-home store.

I have very little to report to be quite honest, which is why (as you may have been wondering) I have been putting off writing emails and things of that sort to friends. People are always so excited and want to know EVerything. I wish to come through for you with an equally excited tone. Daily goings-on consist of little right now, but we are working on making life writable. heh. I know what we need. Pictures! I will work on that, once I figure out how to make them appear here for your viewing pleasure. Until next time, keep Austin weird. Come visit!

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