Houston

To start the day we are going to have a traditional mexican breakfast at this little mexican cafe down the road.

Charritos Mexican Restaurant

Really good food but so filling. The menu was in spanish (of course) so Uncle Garry had to order for us and he decided I should have 2 different breakfasts...

Menu at Carritos

My breakfast

Laarnis breakfast

Austin

Today we are going to the capital of Texas, Austin.
Along the way to Austin, we stop at a small town called Marble Falls, for lunch.

And so our american food experience began. I had to have hot wings to start then BBQ Pork Ribs, sssooooooo good. The softdrinks are bottomless cups for about $1.

BBQ Pork Ribs

Laarni dived into a Chicken Fried Steak. That's right, its a steak that is battered and fried like chicken!

Chicken Fried Steak and Chips

The view from the restaurant was great, we sat on a balcony that actually hangs over a river. The bridge to the side is so iconic of American movies.

Bridge at Marble Falls

Back on the road again and just loving the country side.

 Going up the main street you see the Capital Building on the hill, it makes you feel like you are approaching the white house.

Austin Capital Building

Laarni posing infront of cop cars.

Me infront of the Capital Building

 We parked at the town hall and walked through the town.

 

At first I was surprised that the Capital of Texas is so small but then I found out that we only saw 2% of it and it is quite spread out. Walked around the town for awhile, great looking buildings but didnt have much time to look at much else. Supposed to be great at night with lots of bars and live music.

Crossing the Colorado River

We walked for an hour, out of the town, across the bridge and along the river to visit the memorial of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial

Looking at Austin City from across the Colorado River

Head back to San Antonio in time for dinner. Uncle Garry took us to this off the road BBQ place called Rudy's. 

Rudys BBQ

San Antonio

So here we are in San Antonio, we are so tired.

 Such a nice little airport here, looks more like a small shopping centre then an airport.

Uncle Gary picked  us up and because it was night time we couldnt see much on the ride to their house.
When we arrived we got to meet the 6 dogs.

Uncle Gary cooked us up a quick snack and off to bed. I absolutely crashed as soon as I hit the pillow.

USA

Ta da! we are in the USA.

It was a nice flight from Japan to LA because we flew straight at the sunrise and not a cloud in sight. It was as if someone had sped up the rising of the sun, an amazing sight to see.

LA airport was big, and busy, and an easy place to get ripped off by fake war vet beggars.

We had some time to kill until our flight to Texas so we decided to get some food, pizza and a focaccia.

The flight to San Antonio was...

small!!

The flight took us over Arizona, nice looking landscape, plenty of small mountain rages but they do look odd. I would still like to explore them heheh.