We had a 3-hour layover in Denver, but it was mid-day on a Tuesday, so the terminal was pretty quiet. The kids enjoyed the moving sidewalks and did laps while we waited. It felt good to stretch and move after sitting on the plane!
We flew into Austin and opted to spend a couple of nights there reminiscing and visiting friends. Our hotel was the beautiful UT conference center, conveniently located on campus, and our room had a view (that's the tower peaking up in the back and from a different perspective at night)!
We walked down memory lane as we crossed the Texas campus the next morning on our way to a Kerbey Lane breakfast. The sunny walkway below was once a street, but is now a wide, pedestrian mall inside campus borders.
We had to stop by the engineering quad, since that's where we spent so much of our time, even if it's just blah bricks and concrete.
Most of it looks the same, except for the beautiful new EE building they put in place of the former world's largest bathroom. All of this vast, open, indoor space with natural lighting and a spiral staircase threw us for a loop.
We couldn't pass up the stadium without a picture.
We found some familiar names at the alumni center...
And we enjoyed the sunshine at Clark Field behind the dorms! The kids even did a lap or two around on the track.
All of the academic tour stops were surely boring to the kids, but they certainly loved the turtle pond. Who doesn't? Just watch some turtles for a while, and all your cares seem to disappear, even on your way to a final exam.
That night we met up with the Tylers again, and the kids had no problem entertaining each other while we waited for a table at Chuy's for dinner.
Our final Austin morning was spent soaking up the 70-degree temps and sunshine at Pease Park. Our favorite part was playing in Shoal Creek, hopping across stepping stones and tossing some in for big splashes. The weather was perfect, the water ran clear, city sounds melted away, and only a few toes got wet.
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