tricks AND treats - halloween - austin, tx

it has been MONTHS since i've updated this thing...i'm going to get better at it...i've just a had SO MUCH going on!

i think i left off in ROCKtober, which is always a great month! i carried the "ROCK" part on over to november this year!!!!

the last weekend of ROCKtober i went to austin, tx for halloween. man, do i love that town!!! not only do i have a lot of good friends that live there...it's just a great place to visit! i flew down on thurs. am...ray and i were on the same flight. we had fun with the broken down bench at the airport...

when we got to austin sam picked us up and we went and met mr. john flynn for lunch at his restaurant...great sandwiches and drinks to start off the afternoon! always good to see flynn...love him!
next we headed over to gt and lexi's place to hang for a bit before we went to waterloo records for the patterson hood solo.

me, sam, and gt

after the patterson solo>back to lexi and gt's to get ready for the drive-by truckers show at stubb's. the truckers show was lots of fun...first time to see everyone in a long time...in one of my favorite cities...seing one of my favorite bands!

the next day we all went to lunch at shoal creek saloon...pretty tasty, nice weather...perfect for patio seating! here's a shot of all the ladies at lunch...

after lunch we went back to erica and mcnatt's to nap and get ready for the 1st night's show. we got to austin city music hall pretty early bc we weren't for sure how getting in was going to be. there were different color tickets, different entrances, etc...
the show was good the first night. they opened with lawyers, guns, and money bc the last show of last tour (houston, tx) they closed with it and totally mutilated it. they wanted to make it up to the tx folks and do it right so they opened with it this night...pretty cool.

10/30/09 Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX

1: Lawyers, Guns, And Money, Action Man, Pleas > Love Tractor, Tickle the Truth, You Should Be Glad, Blight, Little Kin, Dyin' Man, Fishwater > Cream Puff War > Fishwater
2: Tall Boy > Jam > Space Wrangler, Three Candles, Disco > Arleen > I'm Not Alone > Impossible > Machine > Barstools and Dreamers > Climb To Safety
E: Chest Fever, Ophelia, The Shape I'm In
['Safety Dance' rap during 'Climb To Safety'; Last 'The Shape I'm In' - 09/30/95, 1196 shows]

the next afternoon we went to the green mesquite for lunch...more nice weather...more patio seating...which is always a bonus...especially at the very end of october!

back to eric and mcnatt's to get into our halloween costumes>off to the halloween show!

10/31/09 Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX

1: Waitin' For The Bus > Chilly Water > Rock > Chilly Water, Trouble, Gimme > You Got Yours, Give, Mama Told Me Not To Come > Red Beans
2: Come As You Are > Bowlegged Woman, The Last Straw, Holden Oversoul > Jam > Vampire Blues, Imitation Leather Shoes > Drums > Bust It Big > Pigeons, Lake Of Fire > Henry Parsons Died
E: The Masquerade, Postcard, Flat Foot Flewzy
[Only 'Come As You Are', Only 'Lake Of Fire', Only 'The Masquerade', Only 'Waitin' For The Bus']

stage - halloween night

robin, me, and shay

me and bradsher

sam, me, and boswell

lexi

erica

the most special part of this whole trip is that we got to meet miss lucy nash clough! ebeth had this bundle of joy early in the morning on the 30th. we stayed an extra day in austin just to meet her. i got her the onsie she has on in these pics...bc she is the newest edition of the crushettes.

miss lucy nash clough - posing already!