Day 22: 27 March - Lloyd and Goldy (now you're famous in my blog)

My morning was spent exploring the Capitol Building and grounds. The Capitol Building is amazingly impressive and can be seen at pretty much any spot along Commerce Street in the city. The grounds around the building were filled with monuments to soldiers in the Confederacy and the history of Texas.

I had heard great things about Rainey Street, so I went to check it out. Unfortunately, during the day, it's not so fancy. The street boasts incredible nightlife (though not as crazy as 6th Street), where the dilapidated old houses have all been renovated and converted into bars, sporting specialty food and beers. Most places were closed during the day. I had lunch at one of the only open bars, Bangers. It was an outdoor restaurant with long picnic tables and a barn yard feel to it. I had a venison sausage and poutine fries (fries with gravy and cheese curds) - YUMMY!

After the night before, I was stuffed and went back to the hostel for a much needed nap. When I got back I met the new Aussie boys in the room, Lloyd and Daniel (Goldy). Considering I hadn't spoken to an Aussie in a few weeks, I was happy to hear their sweet sweet accents! After my nap, they came back to relax for a while and I got to hang out and speak to Goldy while Lloyd napped. We'd decided that we'd hang out on 6th street that night, and see how crazy things can get on a Friday night.

It seemed that Friday was about 100x crazier than my night out on Thursday! The street was blocked off again but there were so many more people! At each intersection, there was barricaded group of police officers, in case shit went down. It was pretty exciting!

6th Street Party

Early in the night when we weren't too bad

The three of us bar crawled, looking for live music and cheap beer - thankfully, there was plenty! We started at a place called the Chuggin Monkey, which had incredible live music. We went to a Coyote Ugly bar, where we watched as the bar girls picked on unsuspecting folk, making them twerk on the bar and doing body shots - neither of which we were subjected to! At one point, we ended up at a roof top corner bar and people-watched everyone down on the street.

To finish off the night, we found a pizza place and bought a giant slice each. The pizza was so much better than the night before, but poor Goldy got food poisoning from his slice! :(

We are just too sexy!