10 Westin properties across the US announced they have added Wii Sport and Wii Fit to the fitness rooms and Houston is one of the locations. Exciting? Yes, who really wants to get on that awful tredmill! Innovative? Defintely, because Westin is the first hotel to team with Nintendo to bring a features like this to travelers. Read the rest of the story here.
Houston:
August 11-17 is Houston Restaurant Week! The goal of Houston’s Restaurant Week is to come together eat good food and fight hunger in Houston. $35/person equals a three-course gourmet meal from new and old Houston restaurants. $5 of each meal will be donated to Houston’s End Hunger Network. The special menus that are prepared are only available during this Week! Click here for participating restaurants and fixed menus.
Austin City Limits (you know the best music festival to catch hundreds of bands at once) is September 26-28 and if you haven’t bought your tickets yet, act fast now! Buy tickets here! Single day passes are still available. But if you can’t commit to get one right now, ShopAcrossTexas will have a link all though August to buy a ticket. Can’t wait for these guys!
September 26-28, 2008
Zilker Park
Austin, TX
Austin:
Blow out summer sale in Austin’s 2nd Street District July 24-27!
Huge savings on clothes, jewelry, accessories, home furnishings and more.
• Up to 75 percent off at Estilo
• Up to 60 percent off clothing at Cowboy Cool
• 40 percent off all floor model lamps at Finch
• 30 percent off all children’s clothing at Wee
Galveston Haak Winery Concert July 13, 6:30 p.m.Weekly Concerts on the lawn, with a variety of musical talents performing. Free to attend, bring your own lawn chairs and enjoy the day. Haak Winery, 6310 Ave T, Santa Fe, Texas For more information visit here or call (409)925-1401.
Dallas
Dallas Summer Musicals Fair Park, July 11-13 (Friday 8 p.m., Saturday & Sunday 2 and 8 p.m.)The last weekend the “eye-popping phenomenon” High School Musical will be showing at the Dallas Sumer Musicals. Tickets are $18.50 - $78.50. Click here for more information. Take the kids!
Kerrville
Second Sunday Summer Serenade, July 13th, 7:30p.m.
A free concert in the park featuring the Sentimental Journey Orchestra. Bring your picnic, blankets or chair and enjoy a concert along the banks of the Guadalupe River. Click here for more information
This Saturday, July 12, Weatherford, TX will host the 2008 Annual Peach Festival. The festival will feature 200 arts and crafts vendors and every peach treat you can imagine. Peach Ice Cream, Peach Juleps, Peach Smoothies, Peach Cobbler, Peach Jams and did we mention just Peaches? Admission is $5. For more information go here.
We’re coming into the last month of Bluebonnets and Beyond by Julian Onderdonk at the Dallas Museum of Art (ends July 20). And if you aren’t going to make it to Dallas for the must-see exhibit, you’re in luck. Post DMA, the presentation will travel to the Witte Museum in San Antonio (September 18-January 11 2009) and the then to the Stark Museum of Art (February 10-May 24 2009) in Orange, TX.
