Birthday girl!

I headed down to the University of Texas campus today to meet up with a bunch of friends to celebrate Laura’s birthday. Not all the ladies could make it, but we had a great lunch at Gabriel’s Cafe in the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, just down the street from the UT Tower. We all enjoyed catching up with eachother. Afterwards, we walked the few blocks to the Blanton Museum. Tuesday’s are free!

UT Tower – funny story… I was down here a month ago in May, right before graduation…the groundskeepers were spraying the grass on the medians with green spray paint. 🙂

I haven’t been down to the museum district since before COVID. And things sure have changed! There is a new pedestrian-only mall that goes all the way from the Capitol Building, up to the Blanton – and huge new office buildings where there used to be only a surface parking lot.

This is a pretty cool feature – the new Capitol Mall. The Bullock Museum is on the right.

The Blanton has done much work on their grounds, and this pretty awesome feature consists of a dozen 3-story tall structures that they call Petals. They provide much needed shade.

The new Petals architectural feature at the Blanton Museum. I LOVE this.

I need to come down more often to enjoy the exhibits.

Happy Birthday, Laura!

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