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The Driskill Hotel.

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.

Coopers Barbecue

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.

Old Mill Crank-Up

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.

Longest Covered bridge still standing in NC.
Screens from the event including the mill

Disney Hollywood Studios

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.

Magic Kingdom

I have fine some post on where we ate and done in Magic Kingdom but wanted to post a few thoughts and pics.

First off, way to many Stiller’s strollers. They are everywhere and a hazard to walking around. We got hit multiple times from stroller drivers not looking where they are going or not realizing how much room their strollers take up.

Second the park is expensive so get everything you can. Do not think about the outside world.

Here are a few pics.

One thing I had to break out was a wonderful example of how nature adapts.

On the way out am owl decided to saw goodbye.

Plaza Restaurant

After a long day of fun 😊. We hit the Plaza Restaurant for dinner. It’s a small restaurant near the castle in Magic Kingdom. The food is sandwiches and ice cream. This was probably the best value we have had in Disney. The French Dip was good with lots of meat and a tasty horseradish sauce.

French Dip

The better half grabbed a turkey sandwich.

Turkey Sandwich

Both were very good. If your looking not to break the bank and get something good to eat stop by the Plaza Restaurant.

Sunshine Tree Terrace

Is Disney hot in April, heck yes. So what are you to do. Stop at a number of ice cream shops that do the park and get something cool. A chocolate covered Mickey is always a treat.

Sunshine Tree Terrace is an example of those stops. We grabbed some soft serve while in the park to fight the heat.

As a reminder that although there are a lot of place that sell ice cream they do have differences. For example not so do soft serve.

Dinner at Todd English’s Bluezoo

After a fun day at Disney we decided to visit a restaurant at a nearby hotel. So to Todd English’s Bluezoo we tried.

We got a reservation and showed up a little early and stopped by the bar for a cocktail. The cockatiels were ok. The bar tender let the drinks set halfway through crafting to handle other customers which let the ice melt and water down the drinks. I normally take pictures of the drinks too share but the bar was too dark to take a good picture with out cameras. This brings up a point about the whole restaurant. The lights are turned down really low. It gives the impression that your eating in a cave or a restaurant that cannot pay their power bill.

For dinner we ordered an Angus steak and lobster pasta. Both were good but way over priced.

This is the $55 steak posts and mushrooms.

The food is good but the price to quality ratio is not here. Go somewhere else for food and drinks.

So to sum up Todd English’s Bluezoo, had good food but not worth the cost.

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