Annabelle's Austin Bachelorette Extravaganza!

I know it is Tuesday, and I got back from Austin on Sunday, but it has taken me this long to recoop. Seriously. Anne is one of my favorite people in this world. We have been friends for close to 7 years; she read in our wedding, and I have the great honor of being one of her bridesmaids at her wedding in January. It's easy to love Anne, she's gorgeous, fun, smart, but most importantly (well, to me at least), she introduced the Hubster and I, so for that, the two of us are forever grateful! :) Here is a pic from the night she introduced us (back in 2007)

So anythewho.... we went to Austin for her Bachelorette party last weekend. We rented a very "Austin" house. Here are some of the more interesting parts of the house...

View of the house from the street.

 And yes, that is the Honey Badger. Just in case you were wondering...

 View from the back porch out into the yard.

 Your guess is as good as mine...

 One of the rooms

The "yoga" room in the backyard. I sure they did something in there but I'm not sure it was yoga...

Da Roosta

Future Mrs Mac and her lovely sash made by Chelsea (aka head master Chels, aka super wonderfully organized planner!)

Rachel and her bottled Natty Light. Who even knew they made this stuff in a bottle?!



We started off having drinks at the house, then went out to eat at El Arroyo where you can find in Pat Green's Carry On Video just in case it blows your skirt up....

Where we actually did have some tacos, beers and let ourselves go... Ok, but back to the story. We next headed to a little bar on 6th called Shoal Creek. It reminded all us BR girls of Serano's at the North Gates of Campus, you know next to the super delicous Raul's?! It was a cool place, open to the street with a great cover band... (even though they did NOT know all the words to "Take Me Home Tonight) when the Bride requested it..

 Chels and Annah taking a little breather...

 Rachel, Jess and Anne

 Ambrey, Brandy, Me, Kristine

 Chelsea and Jess

Jammin' out!!

We finished our night with some late night eats and night-caps in the kitchen and finially ended up in bed sometime around 4 am....

The next morning (Saturday), we were picked up by a fabulous Limo and an even cooler Limo driver who looked just like Randy Travis!

 Here I am posing with Randy! :)

He was really great! He put up with driving 12 girls around all day and even answered when we called him Randy! :) Here is our crew before we left the house Saturday morning.

Kristine, Rachel, Chelsea, Anne, Ambrey, Annah, Jessica, Nikki, Shannon, Me, Brandy and Brittany

Mimosas/Bloody Mary's and GOOD TIMES! (I love the reflection in the mirror on the ceiling)



First, we went to Becker Vineyards. It was amazing. We did wine tasting, took a tour, and bought lots of vino! :) My favorite was the Tempernillo- a delicious red.

 Rachel, Chelsea, Jess, Anne and Ambrey

 Beautiful Bride-To-Be and Moi

Shannon, Annah, Brittany and Nikki

 Me, Chelsea, Ambrey

 Rachel and Me

Wine Vats! Yummo!

Anne outside of the Winery. It was beautiful!

Next, with our bellies full of wine, Randy took us to Toiture de Pietra winery. (Side note, I had no idea what the name of this place was...I had to google it... hehe!) It was pretty, but just different than the first. Here they had a live band and a cool covered outdoor area where we had lunch and Randy even got in a dance or two!

 Group Shot

Chelsea and Randy cutting a rug.

Saturday night, we hung out at the house, ate dinner, then had Anne's "shower". Chelsea assigned us each a letter and we were to buy Anne something that started with your assigned letter. It was very very cute, but I will spare the detailed pics...

"Future Mrs R. McConnell"

After the shower, we got a text from Randy that he would come and pick us up in another limo and bring us out. Of course we agreed. Randy showed up in an even cooler limo and even burned us a CD that just so happened to be Anne and Chelsea's favorite band! What are the odds?? We had so much fun and wished that 6th street was further so we could have hung out longer in the limo.

 Randy and his crew on 6th.

 "Everybody touch Randy!"

 Who's that creeper in the back right, oh that's just Chelsea.. haha!

 Planking and/or barracading the nasty bathrooms downstairs

 Petty Cab time!

Me and Nikki

 LT and Anne

 Rachel and our private DJ!

 Dancing Queens

 Nikki and Annabelle

One of the last, but also one of my favorite pics of the night!

Had an absolute blast with all these girls and cannot wait to do it all over again on January 21st!!! :) Thank you to Chelsea for planning and organizing such a great weekend!