You didn't get the whole Estate Sale Story yesterday! We went back with a larger, empty vehicle to pick up our chair. (We call this one the 'ugly chair' even though once we got it home I realized it looks pretty good with our colorful walls) We also spotted a nice side table to take home with us! It is a cool old retro-ey cabinet table that looks like it was meant for record albums. The doors slide back and forth. We also found a really pretty velvet rocker chair, with wooden arm rests and a tall velvet back. It rocks back and forth on 4 springs, and has a really elegant shape. We also got a really cool old enameled metal 3-shelf rolly cart for the kitchen, in unbeleiveable condition. Because it was the last day of the Estate Sale, everything was priced really low. Needless to say, this stuff did not now all fit into the vehicle we had. We had to make a couple of trips, and stash some of it at my office. We also had a pickup truck in town, but because we wanted to park on the street at this birthday party we planned to go to, and then, for the second night in a row had plans to go downtown, we couldn't very well leave furniture in a pickup truck parked on the street downtown on a Saturday night! So we had all this strategy. The furniture is all home now, and is just wonderful! We could still use a couple side tables, and eventually a couch. The search continues! We love this estate sale furniture, especially the old stuff. It's really beautiful and well made, and even better, much less expensive then shopping at a store. Plus, you get to meet who are usually very nice people, and hear a story of life that is passed. They just don't make furniture, or stories to go with it, like they used to!
After we had the furniture all squared away, we continued on with our evening. After a lovely afternoon barbeque with the birthday girl friend of ours, we met up with our friends Beverly and Jonathan and Stephen and went to the best little movie house in Austin, The Alamo Drafthouse. The Alamo is famous for their special way of showing films, with beer, wine and a hearty menu served during movies, often accompanied by live music or other special guests and features. That night we were there for the Japanese Spider Man film in Foleyvision. They had live Foley artists accompanying a bizzare Japanese film of their version of SpiderMan. We laughed like crazy! What a riot. The combination of the movie and the working foley artists in full view of the audience was hilarious! We had heard that Fred Newman, of whom I'm originally a fan of via the PBS children's series Between the Lions, but later found on Prairie Home Companion, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Newman_(actor) )was in town for the event, but we were wrong, and some other local Foley artists did an excellent job of filling the movie with sound. It was a full weekend! We made it home very late with our furniture and all vehicles.