We woke to our tour guide making us pancakes. Big thick American style pankackes. I just couldn't bring myself to put maple syrup on them so early in the morning so i went with traditional sugar and lemon juice, though this didn't work as well as with thin ones!

The group ventured out in to Austin and took a brief look at the Capitol which was cool because it was pink but not as impressive as the one in Washington DC.

There are several excellent museums in Texas which our guide suggested we check out so the group split up and i went with 4 others to the Blanton Museum of Art. A small museum in comparrison to that of the MET in New York, but the perfect size to whip round in our allocated 2.5 hours.

Our small group grabbed a bite of lunch at 6th Street, a street known for its shops and bars. The Americans sure do know how to make a sandwich! Bacon, egg, avacado, red onion, tomato and lettuce was a genius, though highly calorific, combination.

We popped in to a shop called 'uncommon objects' which was a fantastic shop full of old tatt that you have to have in your life. Bird cages, old early 20th century photographs of random people, stuffed animals, old phones, antique jewellry, the list goes on. Fortunately most things I wanted were too big to get home so after the best part of half an hour, we moved on to Allen's Boots!

Allen's Boots is wonderful. A massive shop dedicated entirely to cowboy boots, row upon row of every different kind of leather, colour, patern and style. I was in my heaven. I tried on 4 pairs and wanted them all but at £300 a pair I had to decide on just one. I settled on a pair of beautiful hand made, soft leather Old Gringo's, deep burgandy in colour with a cream colour pattern stiching up the side. They are quite frankly the most beautiful boots in the world. To make them even more special, they were bought in the same shop as Clint Eastwood bought his, as well as Arnold Swartzchniger and Samuel L. Jackson.

Stopped off at some more springs before heading back to camp, not as beautiful as yesyerdays as these were man made, but we enjoyed a refreshing dip and a few of us kiacked down the creek and joined the colorado river which was fabulous. We even saw a turtle which swam under my kiack!

Paused briefly at Amy's Icecream and got a deliciously refreshing smoothie. It had bannana and strawberries in so decided this was two of my five a day and therefore healthier than icecream :D

Team Awesome cooked a Chillie dinner with rice and then we headed back in to Austin to watch bats. Every night 1.5 million bats fly out from under the bridge over the Colorado river. None of us were particularly interested by getting shat on by 1.5million bats however we were so glad we went. The bats are like clockwork and after a half hour wait, dusk set in and out they came! They flew out from underneath the bridge and out in to the sky in flocks. They looked like a swarm of beas the higher they got. I've never seen anything like it!

When the bats dispersed, we made our way to a classic honytonk bar. It was sensational. The local cowboys taught us to two-step to the live honkytonk band as we drank beer and and laughed at just how amazing the place was. Clint Eastwood, Dolly Parton and even George Bush have been known to party at the Broken Spoke, though I couln't imagine Bush having a laugh there! We danced in to the night (of course in my new boots) and returned to camp to rest for another epic drive to New mexico the next morning.