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More often, we're talking about the cheaper stuff -- "fashion" jewelry, which you can typically pick up for under a $100 (sometimes way under). 2 days: Water activities and Austin just go together, so pick a lake and spend some time exploring. Cousteau's watch had super-luminous hour markers and hands set against a dark dial face, which insured that he could make out the time even in low light underwater. Dive watches usually have illuminated watch hands. Some dive watches include multiple gauges that measure elapsed time on the bottom, and have alarms that flash or vibrate so you can sense them even when water muffles sound. Over the past 70 years, inventors have come up with scores of innovations in an effort to improve diving watches. Step 5: Use a craft brush to generously apply etching cream over the stencils, using care to avoid contact with the glass beyond the stencils.

Step 2: Carefully peel the backing off the contact paper, one stencil at a time, and adhere to the drinking glass. What is Internet Time, and can I buy a watch that tells it? You can buy the bottle there, too. Markers so they can be used in low light conditions. Can a dive watch save your life? Additionally, after being heated to up to 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) for 20 minutes, testers drip water onto the exterior of the watch face. One popular choice is stainless steel, an alloy whose coating makes it resistant to being deformed by water and succumbing to pressure as well as corrosion. 2 days: Spend the day at Volente Beach on Lake Travis (RM 2222 and Volente Road), where you'll have everything you need for a day on the water. Lake Travis and Lake Austin are the most popular for boating and fun in the sun, so get off the beaten path and explore the lakes in the Hill Country, including Lake Buchanan. Take a few fun pictures before you leave. You'll climb 99 steps to get to the top, but it's a breathtaking panoramic view of the city skyline, Lake Austin, surrounding Hill Country, incredible lakeside homes -- and one of the many reasons University of Texas at Austin students never leave after they graduate.

It's a great view. 2006 Christopher Houben The breathtaking view from Mount Bonnell lets you survey the Austinskyline, Lake Austin, and the surrounding Hill Country. 3 days: See the natural beauty of the Texas Hill Country upclose at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center (4801 La Crosse Ave), where planting areas, wildflower meadows, exhibits, and an observation tower honor Mrs. Johnson's passionate devotion to native landscaping and preservation. This museum on the University of Texas campus includes thousands of volumes of presidential papers, a scale replica of the Oval Office during his presidency, and a First Lady's Gallery devoted to the work of Lady Bird Johnson. Continue your trip down presidential memory lane with a visit to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum (2313 Red River). It's popular for good reason so, since a visit to Austin just isn't complete without a stop at Lake Travis, go to the best-kept secret on the water: Krause Springs, located about 34 miles west of Austin. Congratulate yourself on your many bargains at The Tap Room (129 E Hopkins; about five miles from The Tanger Center) in San Marcos, where you'll find big burgers and 32 beers on tap.

Book a room at the Mobil Three-Star InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel (701 Congress Ave), where there's a great bar overlooking Sixth Street. You can't go wrong on Sixth Street. If it's not too hot, ask for a table on the rooftop deck overlooking Sixth Street. For a lunch or late afternoon snack, grab a table at Ruta Maya (3601 South Congress at Penn Field), a local coffee house and favorite hangout for the multi-tattooed and the dressed-to-the-nines or a combination of the two. 2 days: Spend the next day on South Congress Avenue, also called "SoCo." Start your day with hot coffee to go at Jo's Hot Coffee & Good Food (1300 South Congress), which is known as much for its people-watching and "Austintatious" attitude as it is for the coffee. 2 days: Get up early, grab some house-roasted European coffee and a homemade pastry (the cinnamon rolls are huge and flaky -- they melt in your mouth!) at Mozart's Coffee Roasters (3825 Lake Austin Blvd) on Lake Austin, and enjoy the tranquility of the water, or make the short drive to watch the sun rise over Mount Bonnell.