Austin, Texas

For spring break, Cho and I decided to use our free tickets to head to Austin, Texas. So let me get the list of things we did and saw out of the way: University of Texas, Lydon B, Johnson's Library, Downtown Austin, Capitol Building, Barton Springs, kayaking, laser tag, lots of good food, rodeo, and more. All of these were good, but what was reality of our trip to Austin?

From the beginning, I was shaken up and had to rely on God's grace. The night before our flights, my apartment mates and I went to Koreatown to play Left for Dead and a PC room. 3 hours later we beat the game and returned exhausted to the apartment in the wee hours of the morning. Cho and I planned to leave at 4:45 AM to catch my morning flight to Austin. Ignoring our alarms, I awoke in panic as I looked at my clock that said 5:20 AM. I rushed to wake up Cho and Jon (who was dropping us off) and finished up packing my stuff very quickly. We rushed out of the apartment and headed to LAX. As I tried to check-in, the machine would not let me print my boarding pass...thankfully, I found an attendant who let me cut in line and helped me out. As he helped me, he told me that he doubts I will catch my flight as the line pass the security gates was super long. Regardless, I ran to the security gates and rushed through the line and made it 5 minutes before the boarding gate was about to close. A person running 2 minutes behind me was actually the last person and said that he had actually taken 30 minutes to get through the security gate, while I had only taken 5 (I arrived way later then he did to the airport). Man, totally God's grace.

In Austin, Cho and I were lost as we looked for our motel. However, the whole time I was reassured because of the morning. Eventually one hour later, we walked up to our motel and headed downtown.

Our trip to Austin consisted of mastering the Metro bus system (we took public transportation everywhere), meeting very friendly bus drivers (allowed us to sleep and would let us know when our stop came up), talking to interesting people (one man who was a freshman at Kent State during the shooting), enjoying the simples pleasures of eating to-go food on our beds, watching basketball games, watching Modern Family together, and waking up whenever we wanted. We didn't eat BBQ every day and we didn't go to bars. However, we did have a great time in a great city and I can honestly tell anyone that Austin is an awesome place to live and visit.

Go Longhorns!