Last Saturday, as I mentioned in my last post, I went on the South Austin Airstream Tour. Well, sort of. I dragged along a somewhat willing friend for the adventure and we showed up at Flip Happy Crepes around 11AM, only to see a very long line. Despite the chilly temperatures (and the wind!) we waited patiently to place our orders at the window of the delightful Airstream trailer. My friend got the salmon and I ordered the (heavenly) ham and gruyere with mornay sauce and green onions. Oh. My. Heavens. Delicious! The crepes were perfectly cooked and deliciously eggy. My fillings were warm and well-proportioned. And they are surprisingly easy to hold in your hand and eat, even though it looks, at first glance, like it's going to be a nightmare of ham blobs and dripping cheese. My only complaint about the place is the extremely limited hours!
Next up was La Dee Dah, which I skipped in lieu of going to Hill Country Weavers instead to buy some yarn. Because...it's conveniently located directly across the street from the last official destination - Hey Cupcake!
I've mentioned Hey Cupcake! before, I think... When you're selling sweet, tasty cupcakes out of a shiny Airstream trailer with a giant rotating cupcake on top...well, it's just really hard to go wrong! I got my usual, the Snowcap - chocolate cake with vanilla icing. I always forget that their chocolate cake has chocolate chunks in it, which I adore. The icing is nothing special and a bit too sweet for me, but the atmosphere (and the proximity to a yarn shop!) is hard to beat.
So why the "Well, sort of" up the first paragraph? My main complaint about the day, and it has nothing to do with any of the places we actually went, was that I never actually met the other "tourists." Since the whole thing was organized over the internet and I didn't already know anybody that was going, I wasn't really sure who to look for. There were a handful of people I was pretty sure were part of the tour, and I think I saw the organizer, but all in all, I didn't feel overly social. Which is largely my own fault, I'm sure...I'm not exactly the most outgoing person. (Far from it!) Hopefully, at the next event I attend along these lines, it will be a little more obvious who's there as part of the group and who's just there with their kids on a blustery Saturday morning!
For a few more photos of the tour, check out my Flickr set.
