austin is so hot

I spent the weekend in Austin to go to a music festival. It was a nice town.. the weather was warm and balmy and reminded me of my childhood in the Philippines. I went to the Austin City limits festival and according to the local paper, it hosted over 65,000 people in a large outdoor park.

There was a green river that ran through the park. It looked nice and some of the locals were jumping into the river. It made me think of various idealized memories of young midwestern boys jumping through a lake or a creek and wish I had something like that as part of my childhood.

I had Texas BBQ for the three days, a Mohito at a TGI Fridays to get me reasonably buzzed before Jolly, me and two folks we met at the concert sauntered off to a bridge to look at the famed Austin bats. I liked looking at the lake more than i did the spectacle of the swarming bats. There was a nice cool breeze amid the 80 degree Austin weather that night, and again I felt calm.