DAY ONE: Tuesday, 29
March 2011
When Mum let me know their flight
arrangements, that they’d be coming in Tuesday morning, I thought it worked out
pretty well. Mum said it’s cheaper to
have a flight on Tuesday, as opposed to Saturday. That actually gave me some time to get stuff
done around the house, run a few errands, have the regular maintenance done on
the car, and not miss my monthly class with Cat Dancing (which only happens on
the fourth Monday). Mum & Dad decided
they were going to split up their “southern visit” like they did the past two
years, half the time in Austin, and the other part of the time in Florida with
Aunt Dayle.
After picking them up at the
airport, and getting these hungry travelers something to eat, we just hung at
the place I was living now so we could spend some quality time together. Their visit was to see me first, and other
stuff secondary, but there was some stuff my parents wanted to see again. Since this was going to be sort of a
“re-experience” of the 2003 trip, I thought it would be interesting for them to
see how different (or similar) things looked after nearly a decade. I made sure to drive by the Spring Hill
Suites where they stayed on their first two visits, as well as the Sam’s Boat
pub which was next door. It was pretty
much a leisurely day, so the jet-lagged visitors could relax.
DAY TWO: Wednesday,
30 March 2011
Today Mum & Dad wanted to head
over to the Bob Bullock Museum Austin the first time (back in March 2002), I
only got to see the first floor of the museum, because I wasn’t allowed time to
fully explore it. And when my parents
came down in March 2003 to visit me the first time (with Bruce, Sue, Earl, and
Mary in tow), we went there again. I got
to see the floors, but as everyone had scattered off in different directions, I
ended up running around like a sheep dog keeping tabs on where everyone
was. In the effort to keep the group
from getting too separated, I really didn’t get a chance to enjoy the exhibits. Because of that, I thought it’d be nice to
re-visit the museum.
Mum wanted to come back her
specifically to giver her some new historical context. She commented when she was down here the
first time, she enjoyed reading all the notes about the specific locations where
events in the road to Texas Independence (and eventual state-hood) took place,
but ultimately it was just a museum exhibit.
Mum said now that she had the opportunity to visit some of these places,
the information she’s read about them now has more meaning.
We took full advantage of visiting
the museum in the middle of the day, so we pretty much had the place to
ourselves all day.
More information can be found on the places we visited at:
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