March 19, 2013

2013 Austin


Austin, Texas

March 2013

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Austin-TX

Day 1

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Hartford to Newark

 

Games on the plane
Games on the Plane!

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Chips shaped like Texas!


Day 2 

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A visit to the State Capital

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The house was not in session

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Day 1 of the Games

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Go Colorado Bison


Day 3 

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Started off in Luling Texas at the City Market BBQ

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Remember the Alamo

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Dave the photo bomber

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Riverwalk

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Enjoying a margarita on the Riverwalk


Day 4

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LBJ Library

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LBJ

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South Congress Ave

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Longhorns Football

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Finally a close game!

 


Day 5

SaltLick
A quick lunch at the Salt Lick BBQ before departing


Other Memorable Moments

The worst meal at a highly rated restaurant.
PalapaOn the day we arrived Chol and Leo did their homework to find a nearby Mexican restaurant.  It was highly rated in Fodor’s and on TripAdvisor.com, but I don’t think the reviews were recent and I think think the bar needed a visit from John Taffer of Bar Rescue.  The food was bland, the service was lame and there was a strange smell in the joint.  I won’t even talk about the rest room.  Now grant it we were there eating dinner at 10PM, so we decided to eat in the bar, but that is no excuse for plastic furniture and bad salsa.

Our not so great seats!
Bought our seats the morning they went on sale and again was shown no respect by ticketmaster.  We were in the second to last row in the corner.  Considering that they only sold 13,000 tickets in a 16,000 seat arena, I don’t think there were 3,000 seats worse than ours.  We also got one of those plain Ticketmaster tickets, I had to pick up one of the nice tickets off the ground to see what our tickets should have looked like.  To make matters worse, they were scalping tickets in the lower bowl for $10 a session.

NOT our ticket
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Our ticket

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Twins separated at birth?

There was a striking resemblance during the Florid vs. Northwestern State game.  It looks like coach Billy Donovan from Florida and the Northwestern State mascot “Vic the Demon” may be twins separated at birth.

COACH-MASCOT

 


See all our photos by clicking on the flickr images below!

 


The Games

 

Miami (2)             
| Miami 78-49 
Pacific (15) |              
   Miami 63-59
Illinois (7)  |
Illinois 57-49
Colorado (10)  
   
Florida  (3)  
Florida 79-47
Northwestern State (14) |
   Florida 78-64
UCLA (6) |
Minnesota 83-63*   
Minnesota (11) |
* upsets

  * upsets Highest Final Seat:–