Your Guide to L.E.T.S. (Leisure, Entertainment, Travel, and Savings)
Touched down in Austin and headed to our hotel, The Driskill Hotel.
This is a beautiful hotel. It’s the second oldest hotel in Texas. It has a charm and elegance that you just don’t find anymore. If you get a chance you should at least visit the hotel next time your in Austin even if you can not stay here.
OMG This place is awesome. We grabbed some brisket and sausage and are already planning on coming back and we haven’t left yet.
You order your meats by weight and they are so good you don’t need sauce. The sides are cafeteria style, and great.
You really need to come to Cooper’s when you hit Austin. Oh did I mention the prices are reasonable? No well they are.
Good food reasonable price, what’s not to like.
Just landed in Austin Grabbed a few pictures of the art from the airport.
Last weekend we traveled to a local festival called the Ole Mill Crank-Up. It take place just outside of Sanford, NC. once a year. It’s a two day festival where you can access the longest standing covered bridge in NC and see an water powered gris mill in action. There are vendors, food, out door music and a fun family atmosphere that harkens back to aby gone time. I have included some pictures below and would recommend marking your calendars for next year.
So we hit Disney Studios today. We were really looking forward to riding dinner of the new rides that have been added. But it didn’t turn out quite as we had hoped.
We started off with the Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway. It was a fun and enjoyable ride with a 40 minute wait.
We then tried Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run. This is an enjoyable 4 minute ride with an 80+ wait time. Not really worth it if you want my opinion.
The next ride we wanted to do was Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. We never got around to it since the wait time stayed between 100 – 200 minute wait time.
However, we did some other older rides which had no wait normally. You could really tell which rides had not had a recent movie release as they were empty.
I will say that the Star Wars area is awesome. I grabbed a few pics to share:
Don’t forget to bring your towel.
Just some last shots from the Luxor Hotel in Vegas. Really cool place that you should really visit.
Went to the Tournament of Kings at the Excalibur Casino
We have been to other similar show such as Medievel Times. This was definitely different. The inclusion of the King Author story and dancers added a great differentiator. If you have three time you should definitely go.
Stopped by Nacho Daddy’s for lunch. We had tried to go earlier but they were packed. We grabbed some lunch. The prices were high but the food was good. It’s nice to say you’ve been but not really worth the price despite the size. The wait staff was awesome.
After dinner at Planet Hollywood Cafe, we decided to hit Ben and Jerry’s. The staff was really nice and the ice cream rocked.
So after we left V we went to grad dinner or first stop was crowded with an hour wait. We decided to head to the Planet Hollywood Cafe instead. The menus is a paired down option from the old Planet Hollywood Restaurant. The food was fine but not great. I would say if possible go somewhere else. They do have an advantage of being open late so if you get hungry late at night go there.
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