Category Archives: Travel

Round Rock Donuts

As if the Czech Stop wasn’t enough for us to stop for breakfast. Who are we kidding here?!

Has anyone ever watched Man vs. Food? It’s dangerous. I mean really, who can eat all that food. The portion size is crazy (not to mention unhealthy), but we were on vacation so those things just flew out the door! Why not try it?!

Round Rock Donuts

Just off I-35 in Round Rock.

Super Easy to find.

Just look for the water tower and the cars pulling onto this side street.

Then the cars clumped together in front / on the side of this building.

Here she be! There’s a parking lot and drive thru over here on the left side of the building. What you don’t see from the outside is how deceiving this building is. At least it deceived me. I thought it would be huge inside. It’s actually quite small. Beverage cooler, donuts to choose from (they also don’t pick them out of the shelving, it’s handled in the back), counter, cashier. Just walk in, tell ’em what you want and pay.

These are the famous Round Rock donuts.

They are huge.

One cost about $5.99.

One could feed a small village.

Or a small Texas town, we did drive thru a few that were that small.

Even these were not on my vacation diet.

Is “everything” really bigger in Texas?!

Here lies the donuts for the average person. I am ok in being considered average in this sense.

The man here to the left, seriously kept walking closer to me everytime I went to take a picture. Thus he is part of the picture. I think he might have thought my camera was going to eat his donuts.

Sy opted for a dozen donut holes.

I opted for a cake donut and I had to try a Round Rock donut.

It costs about $2 and some change.

The cake donut was awesome! I love them, they are my favorite as they remind me of these homemade donuts we got as kids. All donuts should be these.

The Round Rock donut I tried a little later. It tasted like it had an orange glaze. Soft, airy.

If you are in the area. Swing by, it’s easy to find. Grab a cake donut as they are my favorite. Try a Round Rock donut as you are at Round Rock Donuts.

Feeling lost? Just do as the Texans do – look for the water tower.

Love me some water tower photos!

Birthday Weekend

1 Reply

Sy and I just got back from our little vacation over the weekend. Is it ever nice just to get away from reality for a little bit! It was beyond fantastic, relaxing and quite frankly it was just greatness. Currently, we’re exhausted from the drive back so a much more detailed post will be in the near future but in the meantime here is a little glimpse.

Saturday, we left bright and early. By early I mean 4:30am. (Sy is crazy.) Who drove? This lady. Anyway – it doesn’t matter, it was all worth it in the end. We left, we made a pit stop at the Czech Stop in West for breakfast and hit the road. We ended up stopping at a store off a random exit and I found one of my favorite things about Texas. “Main Street” and a water tower. Oh – it gets me so excited when I have a camera in my hand.

The sun was starting to come up. It was cloudy, drizzling rain and sporadic lightening. It was perfect.

Bruceville, TX, just off I-35.

Great start to a great day / weekend!

Ten Years!

Leave a reply

Besides meeting my niece, my trip home last month was to attend my high school reunion (ten years)! It’s kind of crazy to think that ten years have flown by. Has it really been that long?! I still keep in touch with some of my classmates. They’re not just classmates, they are family. I guess it’s pretty easy to do considering there was only 28 in our graduating class. It’s pretty special being part of such a great group of people.

The majority of us have been together since Kindergarten. We all played sports, we all had the same classes, we have endless stories of growing up. Even though I’m sure we’d rather forget some of them. Whenever we get together it’s like we haven’t skipped a beat and just pick up where we left off. Now we’re all adults and I’d say we’ve had some good accomplishments.

We have a few marriages, a few babies, nurses, health care professionals, world travelers and even a Civil War reenactor. All in all – these are some of the best people that you will ever meet. We typically get together for weddings. Next year is no exception, there’s going to be two!

Only about 10 of us showed up for our reunion. One was one traveling in Spain, another couldn’t make it due to traveling and a pregnant wife. (He lives about 10 minutes from me here in Texas. Yes it is a small world.) The ones who made it met at the Lake Carmi State Park. It’s beautiful if you haven’t been. The weather couldn’t have been better. We sat next to the lake catching up, cooking out and playing some games. We even had a couple members of faculty show up and it was definitely nice to see them after all of these years.

Playing some cornhole aka bags. (Margo is one of the brides-to-be in 2013. Her future husband is below cooking corn.)

What happens when a few people find out you have never husked corn before… you get to do it in front of everyone! Good job Sy.

This is the stray cat that kept coming around and who almost went home with Tyler.

Group photo!

The one with the crazy hat and beard is the Civil War Reenactor. We went to see him at the Battle of Shiloh.

One of my classmates couldn’t make it to the reunion as her uncle was getting married on the same day on their dairy farm. Yes, on their dairy farm. We’re country folk. In turn, a few of us headed up there to meet her, visit with her family and continue the party. The party never ends with this group! And of course we posed on the tractor!