When I visit home, we always keep busy. It is nice to drive around to the old haunts and see what has changed and what has stayed the same. With all of the growth that Round Rock has had recently, not much has stayed the same. Now there is a gigantic overpass going in as the town tries to make some money on commuters going to/from Austin.

Today we headed into the heart of downtown Austin to visit the most amazing food store I have ever seen- the Super Whole Foods. I love a store with good produce- and you really can't get much better! We picked up some beautiful globe artichokes (some of the best we ever had- Mark's favorite), a cute purple artichoke, we gawked over the amazing asortment of fresh mushrooms (they had fresh porchines, truffles, and some lovely blues- I was captivated). There were more kinds of fresh shrimp then I knew existed. Mom got some delicious soy dip and some fresh Prussian bread while I eyed the handmade soaps for a very long time...

After a delicious and fresh luch we headed over to the mall to look at my first apple store. I loved all of the gizmos- amazing, wonderful (and expensive) little toys lining the shelves! After drooling we headed down past where Mom use to work at TYC to look at a game store- Great hall games where my parents picked up some chips for Mark over winter. After looking around, we found a slightly used copy of Fresh Fish copy- by an amazing guy who dyes his hair green and likes to start the titles of all his games with FF.

What an amazing day!