Austin ModHouse

my trusty kodak point and shoot died.  the lens would not retract.  it took great pics and video.  I had purchased it back in november, but sam's took it back and told me go pick out another camera.  this time, I opted for a waterproof, shock resistant device from olympus.  the under water pics look great, but the flash feature severely over exposes most every shot and low light shots are craptastic as well.  but, for beach, kayaking and for a swim excursions...  it should not break as easily.  still, I might return it as well.

Quiet Company put on a great show at beerland this past thursday, free too. 

I shot a small video clip of the show (click here), the audio portion of the clip is horrible (new camera), actual sound at the show was good.

friday afternoon included an impulsive trip to lady bird lake, red bud island.  no kayaks this time, we swam and floated.  took off from the northern tip of the island (this is upstream of all the dog turds from the leash free dog park).  we swam up stream and made our way up a creek and found a big lagoon at the dam.

underneath the red bud trail (low water crossing).  this is where we caught the current for a quick float.  we are planning a trip where we will push off from this location and get out at the congress street bridge and celebrate the riding of the river by a visit to guero's.

we then floated all the way down to the southern tip of red bud island and walked back on land.

daughter's band, MORE COWBELL finished school of rock and had their performance at Antone's.  this year's band was a hodge podge of personalities and talent.

they managed to pull it together and they got to rock out with DON'T FEAR THE REAPER.

we went to the annual muddy slip and slide fest hosted by our friends at crestview doors and erwinhouse

had a great brunch at La Condesa.  kat will strongly recommend the pozole with berkshire pork belly and I can get behind the cochinita pibil tacos AND the huevos chilangos (with house made wild boar chorizo!).  really, everything we've had here is great and their interior is one of my favorite.

we closed out saturday night with some friends celebrating a birthday.  the deck at the cedar door is like a typhoon of wind and mist.  although it was really around 100 degrees outside, it was chilly on that deck and we had to turn the mist down.  cedar door claims to have been the birth place of the mexican martini, but I hear trudy's is also making a similar claim.  I don't care so much about the the origin, long as they keep mixing them up.  I do feel like the cedar door version is heavy on the mix (syrup) and not as pure as the others I frequent around town that feature real fresh lime juice from actual limes.