Bats in Flight & Cousins on the Road

We had so much fun having our cousins (nephews and sister) Spencer & Ryan in town for an overnight visit Monday. Our Wii hasn't been played that much all summer long. We went real bowling on Monday afternoon and ate at Hut's for dinner, then enjoyed Austin's Amy's Ice Cream. After all that, we went to watch the Congress Bridge bats come out. In our 10 years in Austin, we haven't done that. It was a little bit of a long wait, but when they did start flying, they kept flying and flying and flying. All the spectators ended up leaving & there were still bats flying. Amazing.


On Tuesday morning, the kids played in the house, and Conleigh & Spencer played Wii bowling.
Then we hit the pool at noontime before the Gosmano's headed back to H-Town. Thanks for visiting. We love you all!

Happy Bastille Day

One crazy hot summer, Saturday night. Hmmm. What shall we do? Let's go to the Austin French Legation Bastille Day celebration! Before heading to the museum, we took the kids to hip Congress Avenue south of downtown. We went to the Big Top candy store. The children were in heaven. Then we ate walk-up pizza (for the kids) and Mighty Cone (yum-a-rama for Peter & me). We finished that adventure with cool sno-cones for

the kids since we made them eat dinner outside in the 100+ degree weather.
Then we ventured to the French Legation museum. The vino really hit the spot. The kids got to run around the pretty grounds and got to watch jugglers, get balloon art and pinwheels that didn't move because there was no wind to make them spin.


We watched the kids run around the beautiful grounds, and we watched a bit of swing dancing. Then we stood and pretended like we knew the national anthem of France. Then, we called it a night. >
Happy Bastille Day.