Austin has been great. Yesterday we checked out the University of Texas campus and I have to say it isn't bad. The Main tower is a lot bigger than I could of pictured and is the site where Charles Whitman used as a nest for his sniper attacks that took many lives back in the 60's. We then walked uptown a bit and took a tour of the capital building. It's a really impressive capital building which is kind of similar to almost every capital building I've seen here.

We came back to the hostel and found that the Girl Guides were here and had cooked dinner. They then asked us a bit of questions about were we're from and wondered if we were in a band. Shortly after that we were back out and seeing 6th street in all its glory. The bar scene here would probably be the best in the world. I mean if it's the live music capital of the world then what more do you need. We went to about 8 bars last night and each of them offered glorious amounts of cheap drinks. One of them might as well have been called $2 every-things as everything was well indeed $2. All in all it was a great cheap night out.

Today however was less exciting. I spent a bit of it doing school work (yes, I'm not totally evading my obligations) we had a walk around again, went to the must do that is Amy's Ice cream and that was simply amazing. After that we made plans to go to the Alamo movie theater and watch "No place for old men". The great thing about this place is that you turn up early and you order dinner and they serve it to you in the movie. Every second row of seats is gone and there's a sort of table in front of you where you can put your pizza or whatever and drink your beer etc. Such things are really innovative.

Next stop, tomorrow morning we're off to Houston

Well we spent one last look around Dallas, we started off with a diner for breakfast which provided a hefty burger for minimal prices. We checked out a huge series of cattle statues and some iconic department store. We then moved on to check out the place where JFK died. We didn't bother with the book depository exhibition, but rather spent more time just wandering around the grassy knoll and looking at the X painted on the road where the shots where. It was really quite a sight to see really, knowing that such an important event happened right there.

We took the bus from Dallas to Austin and so far we've checked into the Hostel, taken a cab to a Mexican restaurant and that's about it for the evening. And even though I've seen not much, I think I've fallen in love with the place. I'm really glad we have two days here. It feels like a place I could really enjoy if I lived here.