How Stinkin' Cool Is This???

And by cool I mean 55 degrees cool.......














Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Sea World????
(and I think the kids had fun too. A is ready to move to San Antonio to be a whale trainer. I have tried to explain about college and moving out but he is ready to go now)

We Interupt our Texas Series

To apologize to all 8 of you who have "liked" us on Facebook. After months of trying to get the feed to link to our FB page automatically, I think it is finally working so I apologize that you just got about 25 posts from us. It shouldn't happen again. I am still trying to decide if we are going to keep the FB page at all (since most people are following other ways and I am still on the fence about how I feel having everything on FB) but there shouldn't be another flood of posts.

Check back tomorrow for the remainder of the Texas photos- Trust me- they are pretty cool.

Texas- The Sea World Edition

In no order other than random










K's first ride on a "roller coaster" such that it was. She liked enough to go on it again

I think D liked the ride. Of course after a week of being too short to ride anything "big" (including an unfortunate incident at Schlitterbahn where she waited 30 minutes for a ride with no height limit only to find out she was too small to stay in the tube without falling out) any ride that would let her on was fun


Of course the splash was what they loved best (and they could have saved themselves a lot of time by just going here and not actually riding the ride)

Texas- the Animal Edition

At the Natural Bridge Safari Park
(and yes, the animals do get more exotic than goats)





One of the coolest things we saw in Austin was the Congress Ave. bridge colony of bats. They are the largest urban bat colony in the world with approx. 1.5 Million Mexican Free Tail Bats living under the bridge. And every night at dusk they appear. We actually went to see them twice (since our hotel was a short 3 minute walk away)

At the riverside viewing area




The bat watching boat- (D and I watched from the bridge while everyone else was on the boat- she didn't feel well that night so she didn't want to go on the boat). Apparently it is good luck to get pooped on (by a bat) so several in our group were "lucky" as the bats emerged. Also lucky for them, they are very small bats if you know what I mean ....


The view from on the bridge

Deep in the Heart of Texas Part 2

San Antonio Mission National Historic Park
(and for my friend L- that means one stamp for EACH mission, plus the park stamp)

Mission Espada



Mission San Juan


Mission San Jose

(if you look really close you can see the Coke machine inside- they had it made back in mission days)



Mission Concepcion


The Can't Be Missed (apparently so sacred that the city forced the Hilton across the street to change it's plans during construction when it was realized that the hotel would cast a shadow on the Alamo for about 10 minutes a day) Alamo


And what has to be one of my all time favorite WTF signs ever.
From the museum at the Alamo.
I apologize for the blurriness- I took it on the sly have NO idea how it got on my camera but it reads:

"Please turn off all electronic devices while in the buildings of the Alamo.
This includes photographic and video devices and all cell phones.
Texting and Googling are not permitted inside the buildings."

The only thing I can think is that if you Google you might find out some different "facts" about life at the Alamo