SXSW: The First Weekend

Holy smokes. This weekend has a been a whirlwind.
As many of you know this weekend marked the beginning of South By Southwest 2013. 

(For those of you who don't know, SXSW is an annual music, film, and tech. conference in Austin.)

It's super cool.

Now this is my first SXSW adventure and although my weekend started off slow because I'm an old lady who gets tired and overwhelmed easily  I think it actually turned out pretty awesome!

Remus and I kicked things off with the Startup Crawl on Thursday night and hung out with some of his co-workers on Friday. 

On Saturday we wandered downtown looking for something fun (free drinks) and didn't have much luck.

But then came Sunday.

Sunday is where the fun really started.

In the afternoon we headed down to Auditorium Shores and participated in The mp3 Project by Improv Everywhere.

It was so much fun! 

We were told to come down to the park at a specific time, download this mp3 and not listen to it, and dress is a certain color shirt. Once we were there and the clock hit 3 we all started playing the track which gave us all directions for what we were supposed to do next. 

It was so much fun!

We were directed to do things like follow non participants around and play freeze tag. 

My favorite part was when we all formed a giant bulls-eye in the middle of the park. 

I can only imagine what all the passerby's thought. 

The next thing on our agenda for Sunday was the Foursquare party at Hype Machine's Hype Hotel.                                                  

This was my first big South by party and it did NOT disappoint. 

The DJ was fabulous! Even Remus danced a little!!

Seriously that never happens. 

EVER.

Though it could have been a little to do with the free drinks.

Maybe...

Anyhoo, that was weekend one for me. Up next this week will be Fader Fort (got my wristband earlier today) and of course the Flaming Lips on Friday!! 

That is all.

There will be more.