Last weekend, I met Jake in Austin for the Austin City Limits Music Festival. When we arrived on Friday, the grass in Zilker Park looked like a country club fairway. They had closed the park for an entire year to install an irrigation system and re-sod it. But on Saturday, it rained all day, and by Sunday the grass was replaced with an inch of mud. Luckily I have high-performance footwear...
This was taken when we finally got to sit down to watch Ben Sollee on the only dry patch in the park. (It been protected by a huge tent.)
Luckily, I also brought a rain jacket. Others in our party had to be more resourceful...
The music was great, the company was even better. We rented a house with fellow Teachers for America and significant others. Mornings consisted of feasts of eggs, bacon, sausage and biscuits and gravy, then a delightful bike ride to the park. Then it was hours and hours of music!
