I went to visit Steven for his birthday, and we drove from where he lives (Sugar Land) to Austin for the weekend. Here we are at Lake Travis on his 25th birthday. I wore this cute Anthropologie dress for the first time since I bought it massively on sale. Many compliments on the dress ensued.

We bumbled around town, visiting shops and being silly. Austin sure has a ton of vintage shops! For all of the shops we hit up, I didn’t end up actually buying very much. One of my favorites was definitely the store to the left of Mom’s Tattoos in the photo below, Room Service. That is where I bought a deadstock acid-washed black denim cropped jacket, complete with the original Dirty Dancing movie tag and plastic gem buttons. Official movie merchandise, people! I had to cut the tag off to wear it, though.

This is my favorite photo from the weekend. It makes me smile

Austin is a lovely town, and it reminded both of us very much of Portland, from the geography to the demographics. We both enjoyed our visit, but then he had to return to Sugar Land and I to San Francisco. Sad