May 6-10, 2007, Philadelphia-Austin: 1,661 MilesDon't be scared, I didn't drive to Austin, but even with the plane, it took me about 8 hours~!
May 6, 2007
Got up at 4 a.m. in order to catch the flight at 7 a.m., changed in Dallas and arrived in Austin at 3 p.m. I was burning out when I arrived at Radisson Hotel-Tired and hungry...I really wanted to take a nap, but I was too hungry to sleep, so I went to a Mexican restaurant near the hotel--not cheap, but it was really good!...Had nice food and nice bed, and of course a nice sleep.
May 7, 2007
First day of NARRP Conference, I went to the session in the morning, the keynote speaker was an economist, who had got Economy Nobel Price, very clever guy and impressive experiences...
Oh, should say that, this was the first time I had Mexican food for breakfast, quite heavy, but I love it~!lol!
Downtown tour in the afternoon, walked on Congress Avenue, up to the Capitol of Texas, and there was Mr George Bush's painting there--since he was a governor in Texas. Got out from the back of the Capitol, soon arrived at University of Texas, pretty big campus--I miss the campus life! Since I got into this program, we always stayed in the same building, even the same classroom, just like we are prisoning...:( Pretty long walk though...had some sushi when I got back, but they put the wasabi in the sushi!!!--i hate wasabi!! this was the first time I haven't finished sushi!~! Yuck!
After dinner, I went back to the famous Congress Bridge, which was right under my hotel, to wait for the famous millions of bats flying out together for food...People said they would come out at 8:05 p.m., I arrived there at 8 p.m., and stayed until 8:40 p.m., there was even no single bats came out...scam!!!!
Went to the famous 6th street to listen to the music, but they were too loud, different music from different bars mixed together, that was noisy!
Back to sleep...
May 8, 2007
There was a cow lady came to play music during the lunch at the conference, she has a nice voice, and those songs were really cool--much better than the shit at the 6th street, this was the real music of Texas...
Had a long walk on the trial along the river after lunch, and sailed a boat there~I sailed the boat to the center of the river under the bridge, I really wanted to see if there were really bats there...starring at the bridge, I began to think what if they came out now, all on me...Ugh, disgusting...! It's better I stay under the sun on the river~:) So i moved the boat far from the bridge, and took a nap at the center of the lake...Woooooo...SUPER!!
It was a little hot...I got back to the hotel, changed and went to the swimming pool for cooling down...but since got to dress up for dinner, I could not stay too long...
Dinner was at Ruth's Chris-a famous steak house chain in the US, quite expensive~I ordered a fillet, it was good, but could not compare to the one I had in Wisconsin at the banquet, that one was much better and tender...
Waiting for the bats again, still none came out...
May 9, 2007
This was a shopping day...the mall was huge, and 2 hours, $300 bucks have gone--and I even haven't bought any cloths...ahhhhhh!
This was the last day of conference, and the barbecue with the auction was the most wonderful part of this conference~!--Nice band group, awesome food, and interesting auction...
A guys kept following me since I arrived there till the end of the auction...haha...just watching me eating like a hungry pig and exciting like an idiot at the auction--I'm always like that when i face good food, and I never saw the real auction before, it was so interesting! I bid a set of manmade pen--actually it was just a ballpen and a pencil--for $75...kind of crazy, but it was nice, and it's worthing:)
Had lots of fun in the party, and it rained so heavily on my way back to hotel, and I got all wet and so visible:P, thanks to my cowboy hat, or I would get even worse...hehe~It mush be funny taking my shoes off and walking in the rain with the cowboy hat...hahaha...
May 10, 2007
Austin trip finished, nice food, nice walk, nice music, nice shopping, nice barbecue party...and the scam bat's legend:P...My holidays finished again...
I changed the flight in Chicago this time, but i was stucked in Chicago on the plane for 6 hours--I really hate that airport, never on time!...When I got home, just crashed directly to my bed, could not do anything...Giizzzzzzzzzz...
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