Austin City Limits
Sep 16 2007

I have lived in Austin for quite some time now but have never made it to the Austin City Limits music festival.  Today we found ourselves right next door without even thinking about it.  The ACL music festival is held at Zilker park which is near the newly renamed Town Lake.  It’s now called Lady Bird Lake in honor of Lady Bird Johnson who passed away earlier this year.

The kids woke up around 6:00 a.m. (bleh) so since they don’t make it easy for us to stay in bed and sleep we were all up we decided to go for a walk near Lady Bird Lake.  Tons of people and their dogs were out walking, running, and biking on the trail.  It was one of those gorgeous spring-like mornings: sunny skies, 77 degrees, and a slight breeze.  We went to feed some ducks, swans, fish, and turtles and then headed over to the playscape area.  We were literally the only people there!  The kids had the whole place to themselves.  We think it’s because they had blocked off direct parking access to the playscape area because of ACL.  We had walked in through the back way.  We heard some of the bands practicing and saw the media vans and set-up crew through the fences.  As we were leaving the park around 10:00 a.m. we started seeing the attendees filter in.

Maybe when the kids are older we can take them to the music festival but for now I’d rather stay away from the ear-drum smashing loud noises, crowds, and hot weather (usually 90+ degrees here in the afternoon).  🙂

Author: Aruni | Filed under: Just For Fun | Comments Off on Austin City Limits

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