Jump on it!

Today we made it to 3/4 of the cities mentioned in the first verse of the song Jump On It by Sir Mix-A-Lot (Houston, San Antonio, Austin). The clothes we hung to dry overnight were still damp due to the humidity so we popped them in the hotel dryer but the thing broke when Matt put in the quarters. So we loaded up into the car, checked out and drove to a nearby little town called League City and threw the clothes in a dryer at a laundromat then grabbed Starbucks while we waited. Once the laundry was dry, we tossed it in the trunk and hit the interstate to San Antonio. About halfway there we hit a highway traffic jam due to road work which was a mess but once we got past it we hit 75 mp/h speed limit. Yeehaw! We stop at Buc'ees for gas which has 60 pumps and 30 lanes. Biggest set-up I've ever witnessed and the largest, nicest gas bar bathrooms ever as well. Anyway, we carry on and get to San Antonio and go straight to Big Lou's Pizza. This is a famous place featured on the show Man V. Food and their featured menu item is a 42" pizza. So we got one to share. Half pep&mush, half pep&pineapple. The pieces were as big as my arm and surprisingly delicious with a soft, chewy crust. We finished just over half of it then packed the rest up to have for dinner tonight...and lunch tomorrow...and dinner tomorrow...

Then we drove downtown and toured the Alamo. It's a free historic site, so all it cost us was $10 parking... The buildings were cool and the gardens and greenery around them were gorgeous. From there we walked around the river walk, which is a river canal through hotels and restaurants much like Venice. Spectacular and so unexpected in the middle of a city in Texas. 

Hopped back in the car and headed on to Austin and checked into our hotel which was one of the nicest to date.We walk over to 6th for drinks which is the busy nightlife street of the city. We go into a bar for one dollar tall boy beers. End up playing beer pong against two girls from San Fran who crush all combinations of Matt, Nick and I. They take off and we go to an arcade bar so we get 2 dollar tall boy beers and play old video arcade games and skee ball for a couple hours. Great fun. However eventually the place fills up with popped-collar college kids that are absolutely unbearable so we mosey on down to a karaoke place and belt a few tunes until closing. Walk back to the hotel and call it a night.