Beau is heading up a Spring Break Campaign to Bastrop this year to help rebuild after all the fires they had last year. He said, last week, he wanted to take a day to drive down there and "check things out". He asked if we wanted to go with him and make a day trip out of it. I said sure and then remembered a tv show Aimee had just told me about a few days earlier called Daytripper on PBS. Apparently its about a man who takes day trips around Texas. Each show features a new town and the man tells you neat places to eat and things to do in that town. I got on the website hoping to find a town somewhere along our trip to Bastrop where we could stop. Well, what do you know...there was a whole show on Bastrop! Ha!
Friday morning we woke up, had a nice breakfast (its fun when Mom's pregnant and wakes up hungry, but also has the energy to make breakfast!) and then headed out on our day trip!
I, of course, forgot my camera so you'll have to deal with phone pictures.
Our first stop was Roadhouse. They have one of Texas' 50 Best Burgers and since my husband is obsessed with finding the best burger we knew that had to be our first stop! It was a small shack of a place, but when we saw a line to get in for lunch (in the rain) we knew it had to be good! We ordered the kids a cheeseburger and fries to split and then ordered their famous burger and another of our favorites and split them up. It was really good, but we did have trouble finishing!
Beau and Elijah playing Tic Tac Toe while we wait on our burgers...
Once our food arrived Sadie was all business...
After lunch we met with the lady who our group will be helping. The kids and I stayed in the car since we were at her new house's construction site and it was raining. Well, we stayed in the car until Sadie announced she needed to poop in the grass and couldn't wait. There was no grass, just mud, and there was no potty in sight and we were not in town. I noticed Beau and the home owner were on their way to the back of the property. I hurried Sadie out of the truck and held her up while she peed and pooped. I then noticed Beau and the nice lady were on their way back towards us. I quickly cleaned Sadie up with napkins and "hid the evidence".
After our meeting we needed to walk around. It was rainy, but Bastrop has a really neat old downtown with covered sidewalks. We walked around for a while (though I did not trust to take the kids into any of the cute boutiques) and noticed we were the only people walking around in the 50 degrees/rain. Oh well.
We tried to tour their original jail, but missed it by a few hours...
Our final stop was Lock's Pharmacy. Sounds weird, but the Daytripper said they have an old-time soda shop inside with fantastic shakes, malts and treats. Our other obsession is ice cream so of course we stopped by.
Beau and I each ordered a malt and the kids wanted "ice cream they can drink". The lady said she thought the shakes were big enough to share so we ordered one shake for the kids...
waiting patiently...
When she brought the kids their shakes our mouths dropped open...
They each got a full glass!
We thought she had been generous when she made theirs since they were sharing.
Nope! She then brought out our malts. They was a full glass and the metal container was at least half full!! It was huge!
We were there a while!
I was sure I would never eat again! Even with the cold and rain we had a great day trip!
1 comment:
I think i want to go to Bastrop and have a burger and malt!! yummy!
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