Segway Tour

Today Matt and I took a Segway tour of downtown Austin! We were both a little nervous and a little skeptical that it would actually be fun, but we had a blast!! They felt VERY strange at first, but it doesn't take long to get used to it... then they're a ton of fun! As you can see in the picture above, our first stop was at the capitol. That building is HUGE! We see it every week when we go to church, but when you are right there next to it, it is so big! Here are a few pictures from our trip. (I was in a black and white pictures kind of mood tonight... ;-))

We even got a chance to go inside for a few minutes and look around. I think I toured the capitol once when I was a kid, but I don't remember it. Matt and I decided we'd like to go back sometime when we can spend more time there.

One thing you have to get used to on a Segway is that they don't really ever completely stop. You can kind of rock back and forth in place, or swivel from side to side, but its very difficult to stop. I was going slow and turned around and took this picture of Matt. After that, I took off and put the camera in my pocket... or so I thought. I actually missed my pocket and dropped our digital camera... on the concrete.... while moving. It smashed up a small corner of it, but everything still works! Whew! :)

I was really nervous that I'd end up falling off or crashing or something. I always seem to hurt myself, so I figured getting on a Segway was just asking for disaster. Surprisingly, I didn't crash! I bumped Matt's wheel once when we were stopped and it scared me and I stepped off. Even when you step off, the Segway still tries to move, so it was a little weird... haha! The guide had to come over and help me get back on it. Matt laughed at me. ;-)

I didn't actually mean to get myself in this picture, but its kind of fun!

Caught Matt off guard...

We went all around downtown Austin. We saw the Congress bridge where the bats are, the "haunted" Driskill Hotel, and.... 6th Street. Yikes. One girl nearly ran right into someone's STOPPED segway because she was so drunk. I'm pretty sure her eyes weren't even open... and this was before 5:00pm! Someone else was smoking so much weed that we could barely breathe when we passed by. I think I might've gotten a little buzzed! ;-) One guy tried to throw his cigarette out onto the sidewalk from a bar but ended up throwing it on me then laughed about it. The reputation of 6th Street is clearly true! I realized why we avoid it. :)

We saw a lot of neat things downtown though and it was a really cool tour. The best part is that now anytime we go back we can do ANY tour for one set price, which is 50% OR MORE off their regular prices! We really enjoyed it, and I think we might do it again sometime!

In case you noticed, YES those are jackets we're wearing. We were worried about the weather for our tour because it has actually been raining here (gasp!), but the rain held off and we just got the cooler temperatures for the tour. PERFECT!