I got back the other day from a week-long work trip to Austin with one of the two teams I work on. It was a great week of bonding (we have a lot of new Automatticians on the team that I hadn’t met yet) and eating. I have decided that if it came down to food, I’d much rather live in Austin than New Orleans.

The food:

Lucky us, we had Brazilians making us pão de queijo

Beer tasting at Zilker Brewery

How the sausage is made.

Banana pudding!

Wait. I like BBQ after all!

Moar BBQ

Tacos! My fave.

I found heaven.

Burger time!

Bruce mans the grill.

The work:

The fun:

Me, Dean, Cesar

Simon, Duvall, Gus

Tish, Ainslie, me

You can see where we got our t-shirt inspiration

Brazilian t-shirts are the best

Simon and Chad Chad

I look good in a bikini.

Simon!

Simon.

JOEL and me and Simon

Simon and Livio and T$

Go team! (Thank you selfie stick)