Johnson City Market Days

When my dear, old friend Cheryl asked me if I wanted to go to Johnson City Market Days this past weekend, I said, “heck, ya!”

She was in town for work having traveled all over Central Texas at her bank’s various branch locations. She was more than ready to venture out for something fun! We’ve been friends since we were in our 20’s. She was also the person most responsible for fixing me up on a blind date with the Big Stud! As if we needed a reminder of how long we’ve known each other, my kids got to hear stories this weekend during her stay at our house. Some of them included bachelorette party shenanigans. I’m not telling if it was mine or her party! Let’s just say we successfully stayed out of jail!

Oh, to be young again.

I am always up for a morning of exploring a small town in the Hill Country. I’ve been to Johnson City many times when the kids were younger. I would take them to the fabulous Science Mill hands-on STEM museum on a pretty regular basis,but it had been awhile. I was up for seeing what they had to offer at their monthly Market Days event in downtown Johnson City.

Downtown is quaint and very walkable. Flowers were in bloom all over the place with butterflies in full force as well. It was just the laid back kind of place we were looking for to get out of the big city for a day.

I noticed so many new places had been opened since my last visit. We found some wonderful new and used items at Huckleberry’s Closet. We kept finding things to buy our daughters in there! Hello, Christmas presents in July!

And how could you not want to try a place called, “The Jittery Biscuit! We just poked our heads in there to see what it looked like inside because we were already highly caffeinated! It was so cute inside. We will definitely have to come back for breakfast sometime.

We decided to get on the wait list to have lunch at Pecan Street Brewing. while we kept shopping around town. I was in the hunt for a unique accent table. I didn’t find what I was looking for but I really liked the antique stores around the square.

Do you even call them antiques these days? Should I call it vintage? I like trying to find some different and good quality items that were made before mass production took over the furniture world!

And it’s fun!

OK, back to our lunch! Cheryl was texted while we were shopping that said our table was ready! It wasn’t near the full hour that they said the wait would be. We felt good about this new development!

The state of my diet these days is somewhere between a salad and chicken and waffles!