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Thanks for visiting my blog! My name is Nova Walsh and I'm a freelance writer. This blog is about the stories I uncover, food I love, places I travel, and my life in Austin, Texas.

Day Two

Today was definitely a blur.  We started at 9:00AM, saw apartments all day, got back to the hotel for a little break, then hopped in a cab and tromped around downtown in the rain until about 11:00PM.  Around 9:00 tonight we both started falling apart and ended up ordering fries and chicken sandwiches at TGI Fridays.  I'm a little disappointed in us but we both needed some comfort from home.  Funny enough the TGIF's food here is better than back in the states.

I'll be posting tomorrow about our apartment hunting.  Frankly right now I'm burned out on the whole thing.  Instead let me share some pictures from the day!

We ate breakfast from the buffet downstairs.  It was surprisingly good - a strange combination of Western and Eastern breakfasts.  I found another new favorite - taro cakes.  They kind of taste like chicken and dumplings to me which is weird.  I think they have fish in them.

Taro cakes, dumplings, cabbage, and chocolate pastry.  Perfect combination!

For lunch we went to a place called New York New York (which is about to go out of business - hence the "Bye Bye Sale").  It was six floors of shopping and restaurants, and we ended up having dim sum in a room clearly designed to be a banquet hall (like at a hotel or Mesa Convention Center) - weird.  

It was a pretty silly place - the underground parking had a ton of graffiti and blue lights and there was a fake statue of liberty.  Funny what their view of the U.S. is...

Car park

Bye Bye Sale

A little happy hour refreshment - free beer and snacks from the hotel (only on Tuesdays and Thursdays and only from 6-7.  Good for one drink)
 
Some of the stuff over here is outrageous.  It would never fly in the U.S.  Take the heart symbol on the city buses.  Or the bright pink ATM room covered with pigs (didn't get a picture but wish I would have!) 


Tomorrow we see more apartments and will probably make a choice over the weekend.  I'll post again in the morning about the apartments we've seen!
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  1. Anonymous on May 20, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    An ATM covered with pigs?! I don't get it.
    Ahh...I read your food blog.They all sound so good!But I HATE bitter mellon.
    Got over the jet lag yet?
    -Li

     
  2. Nova Walsh on May 22, 2010 at 6:51 PM

    Sorry - I knew I didn't describe that well. It was a room that was totally painted hot pink and had little pigs painted on the walls all over. It was really cute. I just can't imagine a bank in the US painting an ATM room like that. Guys would NEVER go in there! :)

     


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