Austin Part 1

Peter has been working on a job in Austin for years now. He goes down once or twice a year to meet with a

group of other people and they assess this parking structure. 

Anyway, he was going to be in Austin for a whole week while some work was being done that he needed to monitor and so we tagged along. The hotel was paid for so, why not?!

On a side note, we left Sunday after church but 5 minutes before we loaded up into the car it started pouring rain- sheets of rain. Peter did not dry out until the third hour of church. It was crazy!

 Do You see the water spraying up the side of the car? Our windshield wipers could not keep up. 

Our drive to Austin was weather free but we stopped at least 3 times and we hit traffic- it seemed like it was taking forever. I wanted to start asking myself  "Are we there yet?"

 We made it in time to witness the bats fly out from under the bridge.

It is the largest urban colony of bats in the world. They are tiny but there are close to 1.5 million bats and it is a sight to see when they start to come out to eat at night. 

 Lily just wanted to find the daddy bat that was caught in a tree. She said it over and over and finally, we connected this to a picture she saw of a bat in a tree on an informational poster near the bridge. She was quite upset when we did not find a bat in a tree. 

Samantha looked like a little Mary but we were told to cover her up because her skin would not do well against the bat guano that falls from the sky as they fly out. That sounds disgusting but really you just feel an occasional drop of wet but see no poop. 

We saw this same thing almost 10 years ago to the date when we visited our friends the Maas' in Austin. Boy, we have come along way!