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Austinots Eric and Brittany are newlyweds, so who better to trust when you’re looking for the best Austin date ideas?
Planning dates can be a sticky business. You want to get it right every time, and we want to help!
In Episode #5 of the Austinot Podcast, your friends at the Austinot present their top five Austin date ideas:
By Austin Guest Blogger, Momma’s Bacon
If you follow my Momma’s Bacon blog you will know we are one of the many Austin families with a Stay At Home Dad (SAHD). What you might not know is that Austin has an active SAHD community through the Austin SAHD Yahoo Group with lots of supportive play dates and a monthly dad’s night out for its 200 (and growing!) members.
In fact, I am the proud spouse of the current Duke of Dad’s Night Out who currently spends a portion of his limited free time carefully selecting a monthly fantastic local watering hole with equally yummy food for their Austin SAHDs meet-ups. My husband meticulously plans these monthly locales alternating between north, south and central Austin locations with this month’s location held at Red’s Porch in south. How I love living in a city that takes such an important role of any parent who chooses to play an active role as primary caregiver seriously! All stay at home parents deserve a monthly, heck weekly, night out with their buddies regardless of [Read more…]
Recently we were INVITED to check out Austin Carriage, the original horse-drawn carriage company in the city of Austin.
These folks, who provide Austin tours via horse-drawn carriage, are fantastic. And no, they haven’t paid us a penny to say this.
So read on, fellow Austinot, and learn a little more about this company and what they are all about.
First off, let us tell you about the owner Cherie Cunningham. She’s been in the horse business since she was knee-high to a grasshopper. And given the chance she will animatedly tell you stories, with a sparkle in her eye, about her childhood growing up around horses. It is obvious that she has a love and respect for the horses she works with and [Read more…]
This past Sunday, we decided to seize the day and jump on a new activity in Austin. Disc golf.
Eric already had some discs that he used back in Seattle, but I was disc-less. Beginning our search for discs, we turned to something familiar: Sports Authority. Alas, the Sports Authority employee I spoke to on the phone admitted that their selection was dismal and they only sold single discs, not sets. Bummer.
But! The employee was awesome enough to recommend a disc golf store here in Austin, called Disc Nation. Disc Nation was closing at 4 PM, so we shimmied down to Slaughter Lane to get the haps. [Read more…]
Adam was a huge help getting our bikes put together!
Yesterday, we got to pick up our matching 2011 Raleigh Roadsters from The Peddler.
The Peddler is located at 51st/Duval, close to the UT Intramural Fields. I love shopping local, and The Peddler is definitely a local bike shop.
My husband and I went in a couple of weeks ago for the first time. We determined that we wanted upright bicycles for casual riding, and Ron directed us to the Raleigh Roadsters. In 2011, Raleigh made a 3-speed and an 8-speed Roadster. Ron sent us out to [Read more…]
