Thanks Austin - 2013: Relax! You're in Austin!

Keeping up an annual tradition on FBtA, this post is about thanking Austin, as in six years it has become a rather beloved hometown for not only the two of us bloggers but our Texan-born twins as well.   Last year we thanked Austin for being reliably blue in a red state.  This year, after watching a short video from NYTimes.com that my stepmother sent me that highlights Austin's laid back style, I would like to give thanks to Austin for being warm, comforting, relatively accepting and cool all at the same time.  Hard to think of many cities of over half a million people that qualify as "mellow" and "laid back," but Austin is certainly both of those things.