We have been a couple of busy bees lately, who knew filling a whole apartment from scratch would be tough... Here's our new home, located in the hill country side of Austin, Texas! It's still strange to say that we live in the big Lone Star State, I think a part of me still believes I'm waking up in Maine every morning.
So what about Texas; it has been in the 90's until about two days ago, currently we are at a brisk 82 degrees with it reaching the low 60's in the evening. I hear back in Maine it's becoming chilly, people are wrapping themselves up in jackets and sliding on their boots to head to the Fryeburg Fair for fried food and carnival rides. It makes me a little nostalgic, especially since fall is one of my favorite times of the year, but Texas has an enormous state fair over in Dallas that we're going to visit in a couple weeks so I'm pretty excited about that.
This is our leasing center building, it sits across from our sort of Texas-shaped pool. I gotta admit, one of the things that I love about this state is how much it loves itself, everything is bigger and better here in Texas and I'm starting to dig it. Except for the enormous mosquitoes and crickets, those I don't dig.
The squeeze's parents drove his car down from Maine all the way to Austin packed full with the rest of our belongings, they stayed for several days, although it didn't feel like enough. We took them to see the swarm of bats that live under the Congress Avenue Bridge, unfortunately they didn't make their epic appearance like we had hoped but we did get a great view of Lady Bird Lake.
It's definitely taking some time to get used to, I miss Maine quite a bit. But Austin seems like a wonderful place and everyone has nothing but positive things to say about this little big city. I didn't realize how small Maine was and how big everything else is, but slowly but surely we are getting used to our new home, it's a big feat when we are able to get somewhere without our GPS! To new adventures!
