Just like kids, sometimes the best way to love Austin is to leave it with the grandparents and get the hell out of town.  The Cibolo Nature Center has a similar history to that of Austin’s Wild Basin – a very small group of dedicated citizens made some big things happen.  They are offering some great 2-3 hour classes on Saturday morning, including a Rainwater Harvest Seminar and a Fall Grasses Workshop, prices are reasonable. 

 This also happens to be Boerne’s “Second Saturday”; their version of a First Thursday.  Several restaurants showcase new art, and have a free trolley to shuttle visitors to each participating location.  So after the morning workshop, you could head down the street from the Nature Center to the Dodging Duck Brewhaus, try all their original craft brews with ducky names, and have a much less inhibited perspective as you let the free trolley drag you around to see some art.  After five or six pints of fresh local beer and some relatively good food for a brewpub, you might actually find some tolerance for a couple hours of art and miserably desperate tourists searching for inspiration to their sad lives in all the wrong places. 

 If you still want to hang around, go back to the Nature Center around 8:30 for live music along the beautiful creek under the oak and cypress trees until midnight.  It might not be Jay-Z or Kenny G, but the setting will be too perfect to matter. 

 http://www.cibolo.org/calendar

http://www.dodgingduck.com/

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