Austin City Limits Music Festival was this past weekend in Austin, Texas. Mike and I met up in Austin (he travelled from Albuquerque, I came from DC) and had a great weekend listening to rockin’ music and eating fabulous food. Every day started out with a plate of migas or enchiladas at Las Manitas, since it will be moving soon. Thanks Marriott.

Since there is so much to tell about the festival and it could take me until next year to put THAT blog post together, I am just going to do a quick rundown of some of the highlights.

Best Act - KT Tunstall
Best Stage Show - Massive Attack
Best “New to Me” Act - Oliver Mtukudzi and Black Spirits
Best Guest Appearance - G. Love during Ben Harper’s show
Most Disappointing Act - Van Morrison
Most Annoying Crowd - Matisyahu (no reflection on him or the band - they were awesome)
Worst Sound - Willie Nelson (maybe Willie’s sound guy travels on the bus with him?)

The organizers of ACL did an amazing job of keeping everything running smoothly. If we ate at off-peak times - 4:00 instead of 6:00 for example - the food lines were completely manageable (otherwise there was up to an hour wait). It seemed like every bus in the city was on duty providing free shuttles from the festival to a location in downtown Austin. There were hundreds of mostly clean port-a-potty’s all over the park and we never once had to wait for one (this is key when you are 26 weeks pregnant).

The 98 degree heat every day kind of got on our nerves, but there were two AT&T/Cingular tents with air conditioning - so even there, the ACL folks had thought of everything. Ten minutes in the air conditioning every few hours and we were ready to brave the heat and rock out.

You can check out some of my photos from ACL here, as well as other people’s photos here. The festival was wonderful and we will definitely go back, but probably not until the little one is out of diapers…