Texas

Texas is bloody big. I will try to keep this short.

Houston Astros Baseball was great, it had everything, a double play, a home run, a fucking huge fat man for Reidy to get pissed and point out. We also went to the space center and touched a bit of the moon. Couple fight league also saw yet another flare up when Dipo (ALLEGEDLY) tried to turn left into oncoming traffic and Reidy suggested it was not a good idea.

We also met up with American Chris from Exeter, who when you're in America just becomes Chris. Chris said he'd show us some of the town before we came out but ended up getting lost with Dipo in the middle of downtown. In the end we went to some bars he'd never been to before and got a bit pissed and met the most disaffected ex-pat so far; a scouser who looked a lot like a shitfaced Hugh Laurie. The night ended with us drinking cans of light beer in the utility room at the end of our floor.

Austin is an incredible city full of cheap bars and towering, glittering sky-scrapers. The people seem a bit younger and prettier than elsewhere and we see a lot of gym-bunnies running, jumping and yogging about town. Despite being built on a curve of the Colorado river it still gets very hot, 100+ degrees at 6pm.

Day one we went to the capitol bulding and got some lunch in a food market. Here we all witnessed Reidy do something unprecedented - eat a salad as a main course. Apparently the endless diet of burgers fires and pizza led the poor chap to fancy something a bit healthier.

Saturday night out in Austin is great fun, there must be about 50 bars on 6th street running from east to west. We had tremendous fun trying to sample as many of these as possible. All the bars are free entry and all the drinks are dirt cheap. Needless to say we abuse this as true british people and end up in a heated argument with a grumpy bald welshman about the merits of his national rugby team.

Next day we go watch Arsenal Liverpoll in Fado's Irish pub at the table next to the same welshman. We accidentally walk out without paying for our full irish breakfasts or bloody mary's. We also went for a boat ride on the river and saw the Expendables.