We went to the Maker Faire yesterday. After two years of being back in Austin, we are finally falling back in love with here, and all things here-ness. Our Austin weekend included:

• walking to an airstream to eat pink cupcakes
• buying sweets at 10:45pm at the Big Top Candy Shop while listening to fez donned shop owner discuss with the guitar player the true origins of the Transformers
• becoming part of a Montessori community that is some 40 years old while pouring bubble juice into trays and buying vegan pumpkin pies
• being serenaded on the Zilker Zephyr miniature train by a jogging musician while three women on horseback ride by
• kicking two very large bouncy balls and one mini official world cup soccer ball in the field by our house — every day
• eating thai take-out with friends and enjoying the first glimpses what it will be like for kids to play together while adults talk together
• listening to a fantastic jazz band while drinking beer, wandering in the park, feeding the turtles, ducks, and catfish, and watching the moon swell into the sky — just us and about 300 other parents of toddlers spending friday night at central market north
• petting a Uglobe Pleo under the chin and watching her eyes half close with pleasure at the Maker Faire
• paying $12 for breakfast taco lunch for four at Maria’s Taco Express
• playing ukulele on the front porch while evening meanders in all pink and orange

It is so nice to be here.