Babymoon!?!

We hadn't even heard the term "Babymoon" before we started plotting our 7th Anniversary festivities.  We decided to take a weekend break for ourselves before the little guy arrived.  We wanted a nearby locale within a few hours drive.  We settled on Austin, TX, and then started looking for things to do there.  I stumbled onto the mother-load, The Dinner Detective!  More on that in a minute.

We arrived in Austin on Friday afternoon.  The first objective, checking into our Holiday Inn Express.  Check.  The second objective, to see the state capitol building.  Check.  The third objective, food!  While driving around, Lady spotted an Indian restaurant and we pulled in.  I had never tried Indian food before, and it was awesome!  Check.  The last objective for the evening, witnessing the Congress Avenue Bridge bat colony heading out for dinner at twilight.  The bat colony is the largest urban colony in the country...or something like that.  We didn't get to see the mass exodus that you hear about, but got to see a handful zipping around and plenty of guano.  Sorry Earl, didn't collect any for you.

Saturday was a whole new experience.  The usual fantastic Holiday Inn Express breakfast followed by a day of reading, napping, and swimming!  To top off the relaxing, we headed to the Mariott for the Dinner Detective.  It is a murder mystery dinner theater that occurs over a 4 course meal.  We started with creating our aliases for the evening, Lady was Anya and I was Fenix.  (Bonus points if you know where those names come from!)  The evening started with appetizers and chit-chat with the other attendees in an area that was separated from the dinner tables by caution tape!  Then, we sat down at our seats and a man burst into the room yelling and had a knife sticking out of him, eeek.  After that, we got to meet our detectives.  The tone was set early, and the laughs didn't stop all evening.  We got our salads, then some more clues, then our entrees, then some more clues, and then our dessert and our last clues.  We then had 7 minutes to fill out our answer sheets to tell who did it and why.  As we get the answer sheets, they set the cheesecake out in front of us, those devious folks!  The closest answer would win a prize.  Ta-Da, Lady, I mean Anya, was victorious!!!

If you are ever in Austin, or any other location where the Dinner Detective is, we highly recommend it!

Whew!  That was an awesome weekend :-)

Congress Ave Bridge, up top viewing.

The bats' home underneath in all those cracks.

Chillin' under the bridge.

Timed pictures that you aren't ready for...Priceless!

Ah, nailed it that time :-)

Lady and her prize pack with our alias nametags.

The coveted prizes!  We were quite pleased with our detective work.