Kaytee Says… Eat!

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Yeah, I sort of named this series after a Miley song. Don’t judge me. On to recap part one. . . .

After all the craziness that was my Wednesday night and Thursday morning, it was finally time for my sweetheart to arrive. I asked Soup if he was hungry when he got here and he said no, but the minute I mentioned Sonic, his appetite suddenly reappeared.

He had been mentioning Sonic as long as we’ve known each other, so I finally took him. I don’t eat Sonic ever, but I was game for a cherry limeade.

After that, we sat and watched coverage of the Fort Hood shooting until dinner with my parents. The combination of being upset + exhaustion + OH MY GOD MY BOYFRIEND AND MY PARENTS MEETING FOR THE FIRST TIME had me in knots, so there were no pictures taken, unfortunately. I coached Soup on how to say chimichanga correctly while we had Mexican food from Mercado Juarez, a local favorite. (I had shrimp with jalapeno & bacon with rice and a little bit of beans.)

I’ll admit, my fears were in vain. They got along beautifully, no awkwardness, no parental apprehensiveness. When Soup and I started dating a little less than a year ago, my parents were understandably hesitant to accept the situation, but I think they really understand that I’m serious about things and it helps to finally put a face with the name. What a relief.

We called it a night pretty early because I was running on about 6 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours. We got up nice and early to get on the road to Austin.

We stopped at my favorite place on 35: Czech Stop. This is a must-do for our family when we travel. The city of West has a large, proud Czech population and the pastries here are to die for. Seriously. He ate something or another with sauerkraut and swiss cheese and I had a cheese puff and a poppyseed kolache. Great fuel for the drive ahead.

We finally arrived and knew right where we needed to go.

Sixth Street : )

Not only is it one of my favorite places ever, it’s where the two of us really got to know each other the first time. (Awwww.)

We headed to one of our favorites from last year: Casino El Camino. We split a buffalo burger and their famous verde cheese fries and enjoyed the awesome atmosphere. We had fallen in love with this place last year and knew we had to go back.

After that, we walked off the calories, seeing more of Sixth and heading to the state capital.

Gorgeous, isn’t it?

Unfortunately there was a “tea party” going on outside and Soup quickly escorted me away before I yelled at them all too much. We headed over to the UT campus…

… admired the buildings and hung out on The Drag…

…and then took a bus back to Sixth because I was too tired whiney to walk any further. After a quick nap, we were feeling the mood for sushi.

Rather than drive back to downtown, we found somewhere in slightly more suburban North Austin: Kenobi. You wouldn’t be able to tell that this is in a shopping center by looking at the pictures. The restaurant was pretty and the food was pretty delicious too. (Sorry in advance for the crappy pictures.)

We shared:

a bottle of Coppola Director’s Cut Cabernet & lobster and goat cheese gyoza dumplings

pepper hamachi & a few rolls that were eaten before a picture could be taken

creme brulee for me & unphotographed green tea ice cream for him.

And then we got a little camera happy.

After a wonderful dinner and a LOOOOONG day, we headed back to the hotel where we watched a movie and I hit the pillow like a rock.

Come back tomorrow for the barbecue that had my lips smacking and the donut that had my heart thumping… in a good way. : )