Texas living

Sorry to have left you hanging after that last post where we jumped in the car to head east and then were never heard from again. We made it to Austin and have been busy getting settled here in our corporate housing. Which is a shame since they kick us out next week! But anyway it has been an eventful month and so far Texas is treating us just fine.


The trip from SF to Austin took three days, with stops in Flagstaff, Amarillo and Dallas. Highlights were eating at the Red Lobster and the Olive Garden...sadly we weren't able to make it to a Chili's to complete the trifecta.



Greg was our modern day welcome wagon, escorting us directly to the nearest Mexican food restaurant for margaritas and queso.



After all of about 12 hours in Austin we hopped in the car to head to Louisiana for Clay's cousin Caroline's wedding, which was just beautiful. Here are Clay and his brother Chris, coordinating wonderfully with their wedding gifts.

We also got to visit Lawson in New Orleans and eat at Restaurant August, which was amazing. If you go to NOLA, eat there. Seriously.



Once we'd logged 3,000 miles onto the odometer it was time to settle in and send Clay off to work. Here he is the morning of his first day.



And here he is that evening, officially a corporate citizen.



Like a good little Austinite I went right over to the DMV and got new Texas plates. No of course we haven't put them on the car yet but that's not the point.



We also got to visit all of our things which are in storage.



Apparently we have four crates, and they seem huge until you think about how your sofa, bed, table, etc. etc. are all crammed in.



And lastly, on Monday Clay uploaded his thesis and now he is officially done with school! Everything has been written, signed off on, updated, uploaded and sent off into some special, special place at Stanford where they keep their most prized works of art. It was actually really, really exciting and everyone is very pleased with his work, so well done Clay!