Weekend in Austin

Sarah had a debate tournament at UT this past weekend. Alex and I headed down early Friday afternoon. Long drive - but well worth it.

Debate is an interesting "sport" if you will. There is the intensity of the debate rounds interspersed between a lot of sitting around and waiting. The best photos taken were of the sitting around part.

Sarah did well all things considered but didn't make it into quarterfinals. So we were done early Saturday. And although I wish she'd continued on, it was nice getting back to the hotel and being able to relax.

Alex meanwhile, was in boy-heaven. As many may remember his best friend Patrick recently moved to Texas. Austin Texas to be exact. I dropped him off at Patrick's Friday evening before heading over to UT. He spent Friday night, all day and night Saturday with Patrick. We picked him up Sunday in time for all of us to go to lunch.

As you can see he had a good time - and happily learned that some things never change and friendships can be maintained regardless of the great suck-hole to the south!

And speaking of friendships, on our way home from Austin, we stopped in Keller and had dinner with Teresa, Pete, Alexandra and Sam. When we'd gone to Dallas over fall break, we weren't able to catch up with them. Although we failed to bring the camera in to capture that part, it was a great ending to a wonderful weekend.