Corrie's Birthday Celebration

We awoke on February 4th to a what was being called a "snow cover", but what really amounted to a slight layer of sleet. It got me out of work for the morning, so it was nice enough.



Corrie enjoyed a pair of gifts I gave her for a while; I'll get more on them later.

She had put together this cool outfit jst for tonight:



We had dinner plans at a local Italian eatery with some of her family, and our friend Sam from San Luis was also visiting, so he happily joined. Dinner was plentiful and good; many leftovers for everybody.

Here's some shots of the Birthday Girl with her fam and Sam:





After dinner we shed the older generation and went to a club/bar that Corrie researched and wanted to check out; an Austin establishment dating back to 1957 called the Continental Club. The initial band that was playing was loud and great. They rocked hard for Austin, which currently tends towards that emo-punk/folksy Frankenstein monster that's popular with the hipsters. Each of the two guitarists took a solo in the full song we saw, and they were both good. Their name, I believe, is "Chris Gates and Gatesville".

The second band, The Mother Truckers, wasn't exactly for us. We held up in the back and tried to have a conversation, which, as hard as it was to hear, was made easy by cool scenery like this:



We left soon after and made it back to the bar where Corrie's cousin Rachel works, but not before Corrie tried to take some cool pictures of the capital at night:



All in all, blurry pictures notwithstanding, it was a great night.