austin: day three

i forgot how much i love blackout shades. with our hotel room just like a cave, we were able to sleep for hours. after we couldn't sleep any longer we got up and got ready for day two of the festival. the fact that it was saturday morning made it a bit easier to find a brunch place. we found ourselves at a nice hotel downtown where the dining room was half-empty, which was great since we were starving! when we asked for a table, however, the teenage looking host told us it would be a thirty minute wait since the kitchen was backed up. seriously?

desperately in need of a cup of coffee, we headed over to the bar and found a table for two where they would serve us food. score one for sus and rach! and our food came out in like ten minutes - so much for the kitchen being all backed up. and the best part was we had a pretty sweet view into the bakery. no, scratch that - the best part was we sat next to robert plant!! seriously, very exciting!

after fueling up it was off to catch the shuttle for day two. it was just as hot and maybe even dirtier - but we had just as much fun! day two bands: the fratellis, sharon jones and the dap kings, css, eli "paperboy" reed and the true loves, erykah badu, mgmt, the nachito herrera all-stars, john fogerty, conor oberst and the mystic valley band, iron & wine and robert plant & alison krauss. my favorite? hard to say, but it was probably sharon jones. that girl (well, really 50 year old woman) can dance! she put on quite the show in the mid-day heat.

day two really took it out of us. our plan was to take the shuttle back and then catch a cab back to our hotel. well, let's just say it's nearly impossible to hail a cab in austin. i mean we were standing on the corner waving our hand out (assuming that's the universal way to hail a cab) but literally none of the cabs stopped for us. we had to walk up to the bar district and literally hail down a cab. and then some guys tried to steal the cab from us - nearly a disaster.

keep austin weird of the day: we were walking to catch the shuttle and passed some guy who was (supposed to be) cleaning up the street (like those bid guys in dc). so he has a walkie talkie and out of nowhere someone (presumably his supervisor) comes onto the speaker and says, "look, there are a lot of pretty girls out there today. let's try and stay focused on the task at hand."