Robyn comes to Austin!

Robyn came to visit me and meet my family and some of my friends from high school this weekend. And it was really, really fun. Friday night she showed up right in the middle of Peter's 18th birthday party, so we ate leftover pizza and played rock band with Peter and his friends. It was really cool that Robyn clicked so easily with my family. My mom really seemed to like her, she spent a lot of time just talking with Victoria to get to know her, and she enjoyed spending time with Peter and his friends too. It was cool that she stayed at my house for an entire weekend and it almost felt like she was a part of the family.

Saturday we slept in for a bit, watched a couple movies (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Enchanted) and went to Schlitterbahn with some of my youth group friends. I could tell at the beginning that it was probably kind of weird for her to be crammed into a minivan with 6 people she had never met before, but she warmed up to them pretty quickly and seemed to have a really fun time. It started raining right as we were about to go on the first ride, but we still managed to hit about all of the good parts of the old section of the park. I was a bit upset that we didn't make it to the new section with the awesome wave pool and insane water slides, but I found it easier to dwell on how much fun we did end up having and not how much more fun we could have had if we'd decided to go for the entire day or if it hadn't rained for an hour. This was especially helpful since people were already upset about Geoff losing his keys in one of the tube float rides and the possibility of not being able to drive back to Austin loomed over our heads. Fortunately one of Geoff's parents was able to drive down and give us a spare key, and even offered to pay for our dinner on the way back at Dairy Queen.

On Sunday I drove Robyn to UT before going to mass so she could visit one of her band friends from high school. After picking her back up again much earlier than I expected to be seeing her again, I took her to see my high school and outside of the building that I work at this summer (unfortunately you need quite a bit of clearance to actually go inside the building). She thought it was really cool that my school was broken up into different buildings so we could be outside so much, something I hadn't really appreciated much while I was there. I guess it would have been pretty awful to be stuck inside one building all day. Then we went to Mangia, one of the best chicago-style stuffed deep dish pizza places ever, and later drove up to a Target in Cedar Park to visit TJ while he was working. Robyn was worried that it might be awkward for the two of us to see him together since neither of us had seen him since before we were officially together, but it was actually pretty nice to see him and not really awkward at all. We were especially lucky since we managed to get there right at his 3:30 lunch break. Still trying to figure out how a break at 3:30 counts as lunch though.

And I'll get to see her again in about 3 more days when I go back to Houston for the last time this summer. Then it'll just be 2 weeks and 5 days until I move back home to Rice!