Goin' Batty!

On Wednesday, we drove up to Austin to meet with our old playgroup buddies. Unfortunately, we got stuck in a traffic jam in Buda. 45 minutes to go about 4 miles. This was the temperature reading at that moment. Not sure why Buda is such a hotspot (for temps or traffic) but we eventually made it.


We met at a park with fountains for the kids to play in, had dinner at Threadgills South, and headed to Congress Bridge to watch the bats!


"It all started in 1980, when the team of engineers designing the Congress Avenue bridge unknowinlgly created the crevices that would soon become the home to the largest urban bat colony in North America. More than 1.5 million bats emerge each night at dusk, as they have for more than two decades, to hunt for food." My pic didn't do it justice, so I copied this one from the internet.



Lucas was more interested in the boats below the bridge. Ferries, paddle boats, kayakers...all to watch the bat exodus. It was pretty neat, and strange to see them file out from under the bridge in such an orderly fashion.