I am coming over to Austin on Mon for a couple of days with my family, we are doing the shop tour and HCG, Quincy's and the salt lick. Anyone any suggestions on what we shouldn't miss while we are over?

Texas State History Museum, downtown Austin. LBJ Library, UT campus. Walk around Town Lake, downtown Austin. Botanical Gardens, near downtown. Broken Spoke, honky-tonk bar. Continental Club, cool music club. All good choices.

Don't miss the bats flying out of the Congress Street Bridge at dusk. Sounds weird but it's quite amazing. The largest urban bat colony in North America (750,000 to 1.5 million).

Whole Foods flag ship store purports to be a grocery store but is, in fact, Food Disneyland! Worth a trip. Located at 6th & Lamar. Across the street in one direction is Waterloo Records, one of the best (if not THE best) independent record/CD shops in the country. Across the street in the other direction is Book People, voted the best independent book store in U.S.
There is also Amy's Ice Cream, an REI (outdoor store) and other retail shops all within a half a block of each other. 6th & Lamar--Park at Whole Foods, grab something to eat and investigate the area...something for everybody.

Thanks very much for the suggestions, I will try and fit as many in as I can !

So many choices.....drink Shiner Bock or Lonestar beer

Lonestar, straight from the horse to you. Austin: play music, listen to music, eat great Mexican food, if you're single cut a filly out of the herd and give a private concert. That should cover it. Somehow bats by the capitol don't surprise me; forum decorum prevents me from elaborating. Think belfry and go with it.

Thanks for the suggestions, we did not have much time in Austin but did go see the bats and eat some good Mexican. I loved the place and will come back in a couple of years.
Sonoman, if I were single and male that would have been an option but as I'm niether I passed!