We saw the bats yesterday. Austin is known for the biggest city bat population in the world? the states only? I don't know and I don't feel like looking it up, but there were a lot of those suckers. We got to the bridge about 40 minutes before they started their mass exodus and there were people in the water in canoes and boats and these odd bicycle raft things. It was a lot of watching those folks below, idle chit-chat with Lou and trying to not listen to the inane conversation of a group of people they came up behind us.
Then I started to hear a different kind of chatter from under the bridge. It still took five minutes before the first wave of bats came out. They flap their wings more than I thought they would and even at the close distance could be mistaken for birds by the ignorant observer. Still, it was pretty cool to see them for a spattering ribbon across the sky, all of them following the same trail no matter which part of the bridge they came out from.
Lou and I also tried some food from South Congress, that is from the famous trailers of South Congress. From the line of them we chose Coat and Thai. I got the garlic dish for fear of doing anything spice in the heat. It was alright, nothing special to me, but an experience nonetheless.
Then we went to Toy Joy since I knew it would be Lou's kind of place, and she got some finger puppets and figurines and a bat ring. Then we tried their Honeysuckle Boba Tea. Not bad, though not particularly honeysuckle tasting either.
As a fairly random aside, I've noticed lately that I have changed the way I say the word "either". Use to be "ee-ther" and is now the more British way of "eye-ther". Odd since I haven't been watching more British television now than I have before and when I do say "ee-ther" I automatically follow with a correction of "eye-ther". I kind of like it, just don't recall consciously deciding to change it.
Then I started to hear a different kind of chatter from under the bridge. It still took five minutes before the first wave of bats came out. They flap their wings more than I thought they would and even at the close distance could be mistaken for birds by the ignorant observer. Still, it was pretty cool to see them for a spattering ribbon across the sky, all of them following the same trail no matter which part of the bridge they came out from.
Lou and I also tried some food from South Congress, that is from the famous trailers of South Congress. From the line of them we chose Coat and Thai. I got the garlic dish for fear of doing anything spice in the heat. It was alright, nothing special to me, but an experience nonetheless.
Then we went to Toy Joy since I knew it would be Lou's kind of place, and she got some finger puppets and figurines and a bat ring. Then we tried their Honeysuckle Boba Tea. Not bad, though not particularly honeysuckle tasting either.
As a fairly random aside, I've noticed lately that I have changed the way I say the word "either". Use to be "ee-ther" and is now the more British way of "eye-ther". Odd since I haven't been watching more British television now than I have before and when I do say "ee-ther" I automatically follow with a correction of "eye-ther". I kind of like it, just don't recall consciously deciding to change it.
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