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Saturday In Austin

10/21/2016

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      …Continued from yesterday:
      As Vince and Kathleen’s wedding was not until 6 pm Saturday evening, we had a day to visit Austin.
     We really didn’t know much of anything about the city, except that it was home to  the Bullock State History Museum, which we decided would be our day’s destination.
      So we drove from our hotel to downtown, and managed by good fortune  to find a parking spot a few blocks from the museum in a pretty residential neighborhood of elegant houses.

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     First on the agenda, though, was breakfast. 
     So we started walking away from the downtown area 
in hopes of finding some little off-the-beaten-track mom-and-pop restaurant,
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...which we never did find, though after walking about ten blocks we did come upon the University of Texas at Austin.
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  The street across from the campus was lively, festive, and filled with students and parents.
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    We found out the reason for all the activity was that there was a football game that evening,  UTA Longhorns vs. Oklahoma.
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     We ended up grabbing a couple of bagels for breakfast at an Einstein Brothers, which does, in truth, make a nice bagel,
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 ...then we walked back to downtown, passing along the way a church with a nice message.
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     As we walked through town to the Texas history museum, we learned something about downtown Austin on game days:  every square inch  is either occupied by tailgaters or cordoned off as a "no tailgating" zone.
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​We arrived at The Bullock State History Museum,
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...a beautiful and modern museum offering a number of  interesting exhibits on the State of Texas,
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     However I spent most of our visit poring over a traveling exhibit called "State of Denial" which studied the question of how Adolph Hitler enticed the German people to vote him into office.
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     I found the exhibit  quite terrifying,
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...especially in view of our own upcoming election.
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    Chilling thoughts.
    To be continued...

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