We had a great weekend. Our last weekend before school begins and busy family life and real schedules resume. We had heard about the bats that live under the Congress Avenue bridge downtown. There are 1.5 million bats that sleep under the bridge during the day and every night, at dark they come out to feed, it is estimated that the bats consume from 10,000 to 20,000 pounds of insects each night. We thought what a fun unique thing to go experience. The kids had a blast, but that have a good time anytime we go out as a family, they don't really care what we do as long as we are together. We hung out under the bridge for about an hour, ate ice cream and waited for it to get dark and then all the sudden the bats came... and came... and came... and literally did not stop. We watched them escape their daytime home for about 30 minutes and there was no sign of letting up. It was truly was unbelievable. We had hear that is smells too, which it did but I have to say after reading Twilight, if I could imagine what a vampire smells like it would be sort of similar to the smell of these bats, kinda creepy. Anyway it was really fun and defiantly worth seeing!
Oh and I just have to share this cute as can be cupcake stand called "Hey Cupcake". It is down the street from Ben's office and we pass it going down town. I just think it is SO "Austin"! Did I mention we LOVE Austin?
1 comment:
I can't imagine intentionally going to view BATS! That is one creature that gives me the heebie jeebies! You are brave to make it a family outing to see them. The smell is one thing - its the mess on the ground that is disgusting! I am so happy that you are loving Austin. It looks like a very fun place.
Post a Comment