We finally get to start Christmas shopping today. Conveniently, Leann has the day off. So where do you start shopping when you are the nerdy Fryer family?? Why the Apple store and Borders books, naturally. We scored for Leann and Austin at Apple, and everyone at the bookstore.
Austin, the city, being an independent thinking sort of place, has a wonderful independent toy store, so the grandkids are taken care of. In the same center, is also a cool hardware/gift store--no problem finding nifty things there.
After that much hard work shopping, we stopped for our late lunch at Fuddruckers--great casual hamburger restaurant. And since a quilt shop is in the very same center, well, a quick stop while Wil and Leann finished up lunch.
We had some time in the afternoon and wanted to stay in the central part of Austin where we already were. After dark we wanted to go downtown to see the downtown Christmas lights and lit Capitol.
So we drove out east to an area Leann is considering for her next move. She is currently way out in a Northwest suburb--lovely, affordable, but she is putting miles on her car, and it's too far to have friends over. We drove around a couple housing tracts, and ended up looking at a new housing development--most interesting. Prices are dropping, and they are making deals. We looked at as much as we could before dark at 6pm.
We headed downtown, to test the drive from the tract, and to check out Christmas lights in the downtown streets. It was lovely and fun. The Capitol is a very impressive building driving up Congress Street.
Since we were downtown, anyway, we finished up by going to Book People. It is an awesome independent bookstore, not to be missed.
A full day behind us, we headed home for a couple quick groceries, and light dinner. For me, I had Tex-Mex leftovers--doesn't get any better than this.
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