Midday Margaritas

Sunday 15^th May 2011 – Austin TEXAS

We headed down Willie Nelson Boulevard and across the Congress Bridge to the independent shops for some browsing and then stopped off at Guerro’s for midday margaritas.  Guerro’s features in the Tarantino movie ‘Deathproof’ so somewhere that was definitely on my list as a) I wanted to try a margarita not made by an English bar man and guess what, it was waaaaaayyyyyy nicer.  And b) I’m a movie loser. Either way the margarita was ace however the moment was spoilt slightly for me by the language barrier.  ‘What language barrier? You’re in America for goodness sake’.  Which is exactly what I thought when I was trying to buy a Guerro’s bag, something I had seen on the website and knew existed and was also for sale.  This took about 20 minutes which is a long time really when you are both speaking English but not understanding one another.  I do feel vindicated in that by the time it was all over they had realised that yes they did sell bags (pointing repeatedly to the bag I was carrying to emphasise the point had taken some time to comprehend) and yes, that’s what I wanted.  We all seemed relieved by the end of it, so much so that they gave me the bag for free.  A $4 victory maybe but a victory none the less.

Also enjoyed were milkshakes from the soda jerks at the local candy store.  Lou – Vanilla (boring I know but a life long favourite, Leon – Peach, which he said didn’t taste much like peach!)