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Step back in time and play your favorite classic games like Space Invaders, Centipede, and Q-Bert at The Orignal PinBallz, where you can choose from all kinds of retro games that were your favorites when you were younger. Check out Dracula, Apollo 13, Baby Pac, Big Guns, Genie, Jurassic Park, Meteor, and several other Pinball Machines. Hungry? Enjoy food and drinks at Mikki’s Replay Café, where they serve a large selection of snacks, candy, and full meals.

Take a dip into the Barton Springs pool, which measures three acres in size, and is fed from underground springs with an average temperature of 68-70 degrees, ideal for year-round swimming. Over the years, people from all walks of life, from legislators to free-spirited have been drawn to this fantastic pool where even Robert Redford learned to swim at five years old. Today, Barton Springs still attracts a diverse crowd of people and has seen record-setting numbers of visitors nearing 800,000 in recent years.

Explore the homestead of Austin's oldest residence at the French Legation State Historic Site, where you will discover how the Texas settlement and the growth of one of the capital city’s most vibrant neighborhoods came to be. Tour the museum, whose original structure was built to accommodate the diplomatic outpost for the French chargé d’affaires to the Republic of Texas, Alphonse Dubois, after France recognized the Republic of Texas as a sovereign nation.