Austin

What can I say.
A lot of the museums are closed on Monday. It was further than we thought it would be. So to get an overview in a short period of time we took the 90 minute tour. These pictures were from the inside of a van, so aren't as good or up close as I would like.
The cemetery included a memorial to those from Texas killed on 9/11, featuring two girder beams from the World Trade Center towers.
The city still has the old moonlight towers, a lighting system began in 1895. There are 17 of the original 31 remain. They each consist of a cluster of six carbon arc lamps (now mercury vapor) that casts a glow over a radius of 3,000 feet This is the only U.S. city with a tower system still intact.

The shorter old fancy building in front of the sky scrapers is the oldest hotel in Texas

(As a side comment, in Texas, everything has a claim to being the largest, only, or best in the world, state, county, city).
We also toured the inside of the capitol building, and that gave us an added insight into the history of Texas. Like all Capitol buildings we have seen, it was beautiful and had some great architectural design.

Since we will be going through Austin again on the way home, I am hoping to stop and visit the Whole Foods headquarters there. I have been told there is nothing like it.