Posted by: Tony Nguyen | September 3, 2008

Labor Day Road Trip!

The past Labor Day weekend, I decided to drive up to Austin to hang out with a bunch of my friends who were smart enough to jump on the bandwagon and get out of Houston.  I, having different priorities back then, rejected the acceptance and decided to stay near home instead.  Man…what a mistake!  But anywho, that’s a different story…

I wanted to head out Friday but we had a family friend from Indiana come down to visit.  After spending some time with them, I decided to tell my parents just minutes (literally) before I left Houston.  I would have told them sooner, but they disappeared to Galveston without telling me anything and came back right before I left.  After picking up Kat, we headed off towards Austin, only getting lost one time because I was distracted by our very amusing conversation!  =)  Luckily I realized it before going past two-three miles.  We managed to find the entrance to Blue Bell Ice Cream factory because of this!  I am definitely going back there one day to take pictures of the infamous cows!

We arrived in Austin only to find a bunch of people wearing red running in a freaking square around the entire campus, blocking off any entrances into UT!  D@&% IT!  At first they looked cool but after driving for a freakin 30 minutes trying to get through them, (should have just GTA it and hope the cops don’t come), I parked in some back alley and we walked to the drag to meet up with KGin and Youn and went to Potbelly for dinner.

Man, Potbelly’s A’Wreak was pretty darn good.  The guy making my order dropped it on the floor and so he remade it but also said if I could sing the first part of “Fresh Prince of Bellaire” theme song, he would give it to me for free.  Errr…yea… if I knew the words, I would so do it, but unfortunately I didn’t and stumbled at too many parts.  I got a free drink for trying!  =)  Joel showed up after awhile!

After we finished, Youn was still hungry so we went to WhichWich.  The sandwiches there did not look good; Youn’s facial expression after eating it confirmed the taste quality compared to PotBelly.  Out of the blue, Hau and Ashish walked in.  So yea, rest of the night we went out and just walked here and there.  Kat’s friends showed up later in the night when we went to the Union to play some pool and bowling.  KGin is amazing!  She is god compared to the rest of us.  =)  Yea, so that day ended at 4am.

The next day started at 9am.  I had to do my business work… owned.  The rest of them woke up after 12:00PM.  Duy arrived and I took a shower with Kenny watching me… what a sick nasty boy.  We went to Madam Mam’s and ordered a couple of hella spicy entrees (though very delicious)!  I wanted to stay back to go eat at Kyoto’s and go see the bat’s on congress bridge but needed to take Kat back so we left and went to San Antonio!

I met her supposedly hot model roommate and her other friends, one of whom was at Austin with us the other night.  Not surprisingly, her roommate was pretty pretty.  I wouldn’t say hot though cause that’s more of a…Jessica Alba type of description, but yea.  And, she was hella tall.  Man I was like a dwarf and she Snow White.  -_-  LoL!  But yea, we went out to explore Downtown SA, but didn’t really go walking around anywhere.  It was basically a drive out there, drive around while Jackie talked korean (she’s viet) on the phone, and then drive back (i ran over an animal on the highway…).

So yea, 10PM and I was still in SA.  I called JT to see if school was canceled, knowing that it was only a 0.5% chance it would be.  The news of school being on normal schedule made me sad and so I decided to drop by downtown SA again just to go walking around and taking some night shots.  heheheh.  Then i left around 11PM driving an average 90MPH trying to keep up with the truck in front of me (though couldn’t) and made it home around 2AM.  Three hours of sleep and then cold shower, and back to school for a straight 12hours…

What a break, what a break!


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  1. DUDEEE, that was a super awesome weekend! x)

  2. …i still wanna see the bats


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