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Lake Austin Spa Resort Welcomes Yankee Chicks (and Texan Chicks!)

For a Weekend With Sophia Dembling,
Author of The Yankee Chick’s Survival Guide to Texas

By Madelyn Miller

Yankee Chicks and the Texans who love (or tolerate) them will enjoy this opportunity to meet and share tales of culture shock Dec. 5-7. This special weekend will feature a class in low-fat Texas cooking, casual Texas-style entertaining, and an Austin Music Tour that will include a visit to the Austin City Limits studio and the Stevie Ray Vaughn memorial. Saturday night, Sophia Dembling will conduct a Yankee-Texan Chick Chat, to try and do her part to close the culture gap once and for all – or at least share a good time and a lot of laughs trying.

Spending the whole weekend laughing with Sophia is probably worth the price alone. And you get to luxuriate in the glorious spas, one of my favorite in the world. (and I am a cross cultural convert, Yankee girl turned Texan) 

For this event, the Lake Austin Spa Resort is offering a special nightly rate starting at just $245* per person (savings of $225 per night), from December 3-10, 2003.

The rate includes all the aforementioned activities and:

• Casually elegant accommodations, each featuring down comforters, luxurious bathrooms, linen slip-covered furnishings and a Lake Austin Spa Resort robe for use at the resort

• Three healthy gourmet spa meals daily, inspired by fresh, regional ingredients

• Nearly 20 daily activity options such as, hiking, kayaking, yoga, Spinning, Hydro-biking™, Pilates, cooking classes, water aerobics, Nia dance class, kickboxing, stretch, meditation, aromatherapy classes and more

• Use of spa facilities such as sauna, steam, lakeside swimming pool and whirlpool

• Snacks and non-alcoholic beverages throughout the day 

• Spa services and personal fitness consultations can be purchased a la carte

Call 1-800-847-5637 for reservations and visit www.lakeaustin.com for more information.

*Rates are based on double accommodations in signature rooms, exclusive of tax and service charge, and are based on availability.

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