Friday, June 15, 2007

Our Final Day in Austin

This is such a beautiful city, with the Colorado River and lovely architecture. Rosemary and Kathy have navigated with maps and good intuition. The weather has held out and we were treated to cooler weather today. We shopped for local art, hoping to bring back earrings and we didn't find anything particularly affordable. We checked out a couple of boot stores and I didn't find the boots that I was looking for. I am looking for Ariats, low heeled, ankle boots. I have a pair from a couple of years ago but Ariat does not make that style any longer. They are cool looking and very stable.

We had lunch at a place with a name that I cannot remember, but I had a great piece of vegetable quiche and my weekly treat - a diet Coke. We had yummy cookies, too, very chewy cookies, which can be hard to find. None of those sugar wafer things that all taste the same and are so flat you can hardly tell them from the wax paper they're sold with. Rosemary and I think we'll open up a cookie and coffee place. She has a bang-up recipe for chocolate chip cookiest. Oh, cinnamon rolls, too. Claudia makes the best cinnamon rolls so we'll beg for that recipe.

I am on my own this evening while Kathy and Rosemary visit Arleen. I'm ordering room service, watching t.v., and packing because we take off early in the morning.

I look forward to going home, especially seeing the cats, who are not following the blog. Being away from writing has given me ideas about how to re-organize my book and helped steer me in a direction that I know will be good for my book. I'm heading home to face the heavy stuff, to find the words for the experience.

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