Dell Diamond is home of the Round Rock Express team; see website for details about various events (fireworks night, half-price beer night, etc). We went for half-price beer night, and also got half-price tickets because it was simultaneously "law and order night" which meant anyone working in some kind of law-related field got half price tickets. (Subsidizing lawyers? I wonder if Dell Diamond is just trying to build up brownie points for the day they get sued after someone gets hit in the face with a ball.) Anyway, our tickets were $3 for great seats and I think we paid $2 for beer. It was a good night.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Zilker Botanical Gardens
The Botanical Gardens are beautiful. You can spend a nice relaxing afternoon here wandering around amongst the flowers, ponds and greenery. Springtime is the most colorful, but you can still enjoy the gardens in the summer and fall as well. We went in the fall. Admission is free, but you may have to pay $3 for parking unless you're willing to park a little ways away and walk.
Round Rock Outlets
The Round Rock outlet mall is not nearly as huge as the San Marcos outlets, so if you like to get your cardio by shopping you will prefer San Marcos. However Round Rock still has a good variety of stores, and is also very pretty since it's outdoors. If I must shop, I prefer to shop in an outdoor mall. There's something about indoor malls that just makes you want to stab yourself. If you feel the same, you'll like Austin.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Austin City Limits 2007
Austin is known for having tons of music festivals. Even when a festival isn't a "music" festival, there is still most likely live music throughout the festival. For example, the yearly Austin wine festival, or the ice cream festival. Sometimes I think all these dozens of festivals are just excuses for people to get together and listen to live music. Not that I'm complaining!
Anyway, ACL is great because it's 3 days long, features tons of great bands, and is a lot cheaper than the 5 day South by Southwest music festival. For a 3-day pass, tickets are only $135 or $150 if you manage to buy early. Regular price is $170.
The guitars you see below are usually placed strategically all over Austin. For the festival, they bring them all together at the park.
Map of the stages near the entrance:
Bob Dylan, the last performance of the festival. He was pretty amazing to see live, although very old and raspy. Yes I know he's always been raspy. He was especially raspy.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Concert in the Park 2007
The Austin Symphony hosts a series of free outdoor concerts every summer, on Sunday evenings. In 2007 the concerts were held at Wooldridge Park, for 2008 they've moved to the park in front of the new performing arts center. Each Sunday is a different performance, mostly classical music.
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