Texas Tour Day 5 - Austin, TX

Wow, y’all.  This was a big day.  We left Dallas at 8:00 am for a 4 hour trip to Austin.  Bus One had been implementing a quiet ½ hour each day.  Bus Two decided to try the same thing starting the moment the boys got on the bus.  It was quiet for two hours, they loved it.  We stopped at Starbucks (for the adults) and a bathroom break along the way.  Two hours later we arrived at the Bob Bullock State History Museum.  We had lunch at the museum and toured some exhibits before the concert.  The boys filled the three story rotunda with a cappella music.  We walked through a few more exhibits and did some shopping at the museum store then off to see Austin in the Austin Duck Adventure amphibious vehicles.  We saw the Texas Capital building which is the tallest capital building in the country, drove into the water on Lake Austin and saw where the rich and famous live in Austin.

Dinner was at the well-known Salt Lick.  Texas BBQ at its finest.  You will hear from your sons that it’s the best BBQ they have ever eaten.  Brisket, ribs, sausage, coleslaw, potatoes, fresh homemade bread, as much as they could eat.  Topping it off was pecan pie (Matt says the best he’s ever had) or peach cobbler and ice cream.  Jealous yet?

You’d think that would be enough for one day.  Nope.  We dropped in on the Congress Avenue Bridge bat tour.  We boarded a double decker boat and witnessed the evening flight of one million bats going out for dinner.  It was amazing watching a stream of bats all going east in search of food.  These bats eat 30,000 pounds of insects each night.  Of course with all that eating comes the other part of the cycle and many boys reported a few small drops on their heads as the bats flew over (think flying mouse).  That’s one of the reasons they’ll be showering.

Tomorrow, off to San Antonio and the Alamo. Yee haw loved ones.