Austin Couch Potato Trip Part 3

If you're ever in Austin there is one place that you must go to. It's the Oasis Restaurant on Lake Travis. It is a short drive outside of the city but the drive is gorgeous and breathtaking. The food is great as well but the view.... oh my... the view... it's beyond amazing.

I first went to the Oasis on a school trip in 1997. It was the year that I fell in love with Zcaveriche jeans, loved every Bryan Adams song, and first went to Austin. Back then the Oasis was a little wooden restaurant that had level upon level of shaky wooden decks built onto the sides of the cliffs. The Lobby even had a huge tree growing up through the middle of it. Sometime in the early 2000's the wood building burned to the ground and they have been slowly rebuilding for years now. Everytime we go another part has been added on.

I love the architechture on the outside. There are also iron sculptures around every corner and turn.

That's not even the best part. The best thing is the view.

Beautiful right? I didn't get the best pictures of the view because His Royal Highness claimed I spent too much time in the gift shop and they had already gone outside to see the view, while I was shopping. So I just snapped a few quick pictures and headed back to the car.

There is a golf cart that runs people too and from the restaurant to their cars. This one drove extremely fast and Princess Newbie was hiding from the wind. I was actually scared because our less coordinated child, Princess Goofy, was riding on the outside edge of the golf cart and the driver was taking sharp, fast turns. If you can fall down an escalator, you can fall out of a golf cart.

To see the best pictures and find out more information, view the Oasis Website here.

You might want to watch out for your kids though.... Apparently they only card those under 2.

Hey Cupcake!

I think it's time for a road trip. Pack your bags, gas up your cars, put on clean undies, sit on your couch and take a virtual road trip to Austin with me.

The next few days I plan on showing you some of our trip to Austin that we took two weeks ago. It has taken me the full two weeks to recover and get back in the swing of things. Hopefully you won't experience the same setbacks.

My first true Austonian experience was at Hey Cupcake. Austin is known for it's food served in Airstream trailers. No joke. So when I read about Hey Cupcake, I knew it was fate.  I know this might be tricky for you but you'll never guess what they serve at Hey Cupcake.

How'd you know that? Did you cheat? They serve delicious cupcakes. I ordered the Micheal Jackson cupcake. It was chocolate cake with white cream cheese icing. It was great but I later tried one with buttercream that I liked better. There was nothing wrong with the cream cheese icing, it was just a warm day and the buttercream held up a little bit better than the cream cheese. The cake itself had little chocolate chips mixed in it. It was amazing and the atmosphere of being on a hip but crowded Austin street in a line of airstream trailers only made it better, not to mention that the woman serving the cupcakes could have stepped out of the Better Homes and Gardens, 1950's edition. And yes, there is always a line... a long line.. but it moves extremely quick.

It was a great treat that the princesses and I really loved. I fully recommend finding Hey Cupcake if you are ever in Austin, in person. The airstream trailer can be found on S. Congress, just south of the capital area. If you see funky, trendy looking shops, you will find Hey Cupcake.

it looks like she has a mustache...hehe...

Someone's Grandmother was sneaking them globs of icing... that someone might have been in a sugar induced coma....