Mommy Date, More Breakfast Tacos & Liz Carpenter Fountain

What a fun weekend!

After a productive morning of swim lessons and (boring) furniture shopping, Alex and I went on a movie date to see Kung Fu Panda 2.  The movie was a bit intense in parts for such young eyes, but Alex did well in his seat and was a perfect gentleman sharing his popcorn and slurpee with me.  

Sunday morning brought a visit south to Torchy’s Tacos in the South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery.  First off, the “trailer park” isn’t as unappealing as it may sound.  The first (yes, first) one we visited on Saturday was basically a nice lot we ample parking, matching picnic benches, and an indoor area with tables, restrooms, and fans.  Apparently you can have parties here.  Now the food options are basically spiffied-up versions of food trucks – some quite gourmet sounding.  I don’t know if this is a new trend or has been going for a while, but apparently there are quite a few of these “parks” in Austin.  Now to the tacos…  Amazing!  We tried a small variety of tacos, some breakfast, some regular.  It was grub.  We joked about stopping by again for lunch later that day.  I highly recommend the Migas breakfast taco, Michael loved the “Democrat” – a barbacoa beef taco, and Alex was quite content with his bacon, egg, and cheese taco.  Definitely better than Rudy’s breakfast options (see last week’s post), but also 18 miles further away.  We may need to move south… 

Following the taco feast, we headed to Liz Carpenter Fountain.

Activity 16: Get soaked at the Liz Carpenter Fountain at Butler Park

The Liz Carpenter Fountain is in Butler Park (formerly Town Lake Park), which is right next to Lady Bird Lake. There is a gorgeous view of the downtown skyline and the lake from the fountain area.  Alex had a fun time running through the fountain and soaking up the sun.

The day was getting pretty warm as we finished up at the fountain.  Michael suggested that we get some snow cones before heading home.  Great idea!  Snow cones or shaved ice are pretty popular out here.  There are “ice cream trucks” and entire free-standing businesses devoted to shaved ice.  This is how we happened upon our second “trailer park” of the day, enjoying shaved ice at Frigid Froggy’s Shaved Ice on South Congress.  Michael went for the classic cherry cola ice, while Alex was more adventurous with a “Spiderman” ice – blue raspberry coconut with cherry.  Both were tasty.  I tried a Sweet Tea Slush which was a delightfully refreshing drink (no spoon required) and allowed me to more closely monitor the food dye explosion that Alex was wielding.  Haha!

Hope your week was as fun and tasty as ours!

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