Park

Fun with parking structures.

Happy Hour

La Condesa has one of the best. Lots of amazing bites and tastes and even steak and plantain frites. Half price cocktails and their margarita is the best I've had. Ever.

They also won the 2009 AIA Restaurant Design People's Choice Award. Grainy iPhone adds a certain charm.

Exclusively

I'm not sure if the bats are just an Austin thing - you know, the whole bat/Austin connection. Or if there are sour bats at Whole Foods around the country in honor of Halloween. If it's the latter, I hope you will go get yourself some pronto. They are not to be missed.

Moonlight Tower

I learn the coolest details about whatever new city I'm living in when Mom comes to visit. Austin was no exception - constant mumblings and requests to find one of the 17 remaining Moonlight Towers - the only ones in the country still functioning. I had never heard of them. 

Mom, you'll be annoyed to hear that we drove past this one on S 1st and Monroe multiple times a day, just blocks from my house. Oops! They are amazingly beautiful structures, even moreso at night when all lit up. More to come on Moonlight Towers in the moonlight. 

Watering Holes

Hamilton Pool.

Angel's - poker night.

Al Fresco

The heat is behind us, for now, and it's a treat to eat outdoors again. An even bigger treat to be eating a Torchy's Taco.

Sugar Mama!

This post was just a matter of time. Among the Things Ibby Likes best: cupcakes. Sugar Mama's reign supreme.

I'm eating, I'm eating! Given they are just a few blocks from my house, it's a small miracle I haven't turned into a cupcake.