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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Our Austin Vacation

The week before school started, we took a little last-minute vacation to Austin for 2 days. We went to a cavern, the capitol building, a museum by the capitol building, and our hotel. We had fun!!!
The people that went were our aunt (mom's sister), me, Emma, mom, Nathan,( our oldest cousin)and Brandon (our other cousin on mom's side). Me, Emma,and mom woke up early and drove down to our aunt's house. We put our bags into her car, and off we went!!!
We kids watched about 4 movies during the first part of the garland-Austin ride. We were soaked in TV-watching!!!
Our first stops were right across the street from each other!!! We went to a museum about the capitol building first. It had a ton of info about the history and information about it. We saw many cool things there. There was also the Capitol building we visited. It had things that we could look at like the pictures of the old governors and when they were Governor, some meeting rooms that were not being used we could go in, a TON of stairs(excruciating,there were quite a few!!) and a little gift shop. We loved it there!
Then, we went to our hotel. We put our stuff away and decided to go to the hotel's swimming pool. We played and then went back to go to bed. In the morning, we both went back and forth to each other's hotel rooms. We then packed our bags and headed home.
As we headed home, we stopped at a cavern. It had a gift shop, and I got a mood ring and Emma got a crystal. When we went in the cavern, we walked very far. We actually were walking for almost forty-five minutes! As we headed home, we knew our first vist to Austin was a BLAST!!!!