Weekend re-cap: Cafe Java, Perisso's, STW, Bill's, Wedding Oak, Highlands

We started our Saturday by enjoying a frou frou coffee drink at a favorite neighborhood cafe.

 We have never been here that it wasn't packed, and we were here early!  No worries - its fun to sit and sip your coffee and admire all of the funky art they have.

 The food is always served hot and the wait is very reasonable.

 Big thumbs up to migas and brisket breakfast tacos.

 We figured it was going to be a loooong time until lunch!

We went directly to Highlands and off-loaded all the *crap* we seem to take each weekend.  It never ceases to amaze me how much stuff gets shuttled up there: miscellany and supplies and the occasional booze...with a sweet anniversary card from Hubby.

My pics of the wine club pick-up at Perisso's were few and far between, but we had a good time.  We enjoyed the "sip and stroll", a brat sammie, and a bottle of Malbec with some new friends we met in the tasting room, Jean and Mike.  Mike kept us fairly well entertained and Jean played his "straight man".  They were a hoot.  We hope to see them again in the future as they are new wine club members.  We picked up our wine and headed over to the Save The World 5th Anniversary party.

Hubby missed the pic by about 1 minute...

We were technically late to this party, but we got there as quick as we could!  We enjoyed our pours on the shady front patio and it was nice to see the owners back from their trip to Belgium.

 And we didn't win any of the raffle prizes, but had a great time.

I really enjoyed the beer brewed with Syrah grapes from Perissos- Sol Vinum - and my all-time favorite, Jonas Relief which is their pumpkin ale.  Both are technically celebration beers {meaning they are higher ABV and meant to be shared} so I can only enjoy a couple of them at a time!  We got to keep the pretty glasses.

**Anniversary dinner was take-out from Chicken Express - a very low key affair!**

 The next day I took zero pics of the site prep we did at Highlands to get ready to build our storage unit.  The storage unit will house all of the assorted camping and canoeing stuff while not in use, as well as be a safe place to park the mower.  Our goal is to be able to walk completely around Mabel as well as finish out the inside of the barn.  Stay tuned for any progress we make on that...

 

We split a burger, a chicken sammich, and some onion rings at Bill's Burgers for lunch.  {We didn't even fight over the last one}  This place is not full of ambience, but the food is hot and fresh and they do have some of the best onion rings I've ever had!    Afterwards we stopped by Wedding Oak on the square in beautiful downtown Burnet and enjoyed the view, the a/c, and the wine from the members only lounge.

Then we returned to Highlands, spent hours lounging there, and headed home to enjoy some salmon burgers and yellow squash which were both pretty good.  And that was our anniversary weekend in a nutshell!  This coming Saturday and Sunday will be full of hard work, so I don't feel one bit guilty... I just wish the weekends didn't go by so fast!

Gina