We went to Austin for two-fold. Attend a wedding at Bee Hive , Star Hill and to experience Austin. While it's the location may have been a bit far from Austin it allowed us to move about the Hill Country rather easily. We visited Johnson City for LBJ Ranch and Slat Lick Barbecue and who knew Texans distilled Rum at Crystal V Creek while visiting Jacob's Hole or Blue Hole as locals call it, Gruene tubing on the Quadalupe River and the Gruene Hall for music and dancing, San Antonio the Alamo and river walk, Pana Maria for Polish history and sausage at Pollocks in Fast, Texas. We were in Austin on one of its two busiest weekends.....ASL Austin city Limits Music Festival.......while we didn't get tickets we hit up the Saxon Bar for fantastic live music. We saw the bats on South Congress bridge and visited all sots of funky shops. We ate Tex-Mex and experienced wonderful barbecue ....Blacks and Torchies. Downton Austin Rainey Street funky fun @ Javelin. North Austin for modern furniture shopping, Lamar Street noerht and south, Wine House Wine bar market district.......Austin Brew Garden Brewery off Lamar. Bullock Texas history museum, Johnson Library on the UT campus. We packed a bunch of fun and it started on 6th Street.......and we had a peaceful and private respite every night at Julie and Tony's.