Tuesday, August 19, 2008


Saturday we went to Schlitterbahn, a fantastic water park about 1 1/2 hours from here and played all day (the people in Rich's Dupont office got us all tickets as a going away gift). On Sunday, we went to another church and checked it out. This one was much more upbeat and charismatic. Three people came up to us and introduced themselves (very friendly). Sunday night we went to see the famous Austin bats fly out from the Congress Ave. bridge (picture attached). Apparently, there are 1 1/2 million bats that fly out each night for food. It was a multi sensory experience (we could hear their wings, see hordes of them flying out and could smell them - smelled like cat urine). They were hard to see because it was so dark, but if you stood in the right spot you could see the flood coming out from underneath the bridge.


Last night, I went to sign up to be a member of a homeschool group in Round Rock and was amazed at all the activities that this group does. There are many science classes, sewing classes, keepers of the faith/home clubs, lego animation and robotics classes and PE classes to mention a few. I am encouraged.


Tomorrow Rich travels to Dallas to meet with the other half of his team and I have to go to AWANA leader training. My calendar is starting to fill in (not so many blank boxes anymore).


To update on a previous post, we moved some things around in the garage and I can finally put my van inside! The temperature outside today is 73 with 100% humidity (ick). I think I'll be staying in today. What I don't get is how there can be that much humidity and it's not even raining outside. Weird.

5 comments:

The Harrington Family said...

I knew it wouldn't take you long to dive in. I am glad that things are going well. Another confirmation that God put you in the right place.

Anonymous said...

I check your blog daily and was happy to see a new one today. So happy to hear of the fun new adventures. Tell Hailey I got her great letter and a return one will go out soon. Think of you often... Dena

Richard said...

Sure am glad you are getting settled in. See moving is not so bad after all. It just take some time getting the kids to agree with you. Both me and Mary are doing fine, not near as busy as you and Rich, but we have more Dr. appointments than you, ha ha . We have not had much time to travel, due to the apointments, but hope to get some in in the near future. Of course we will stop over to see you and will give you enough notice as to when. You could send some of that humidity here, I think today it got up to 9%, not very high. Again I will keep checking yoru Blog, much better than e-mails and a little mor fun to see how you guys are doing. Glad the home schooling is turning out ok, I was a little worried about that. Well you guys take care, give my loe to the kids. We love you both.
Dick/Mary

The Harrington Family said...

This has nothing to do with your post, but I wanted to tell you...Aubrey insists of listening to the Summer Hummer cd everyday in the car (what a joy!). Today when the "pirate song" came on and the guy started singing, she said "see, Mr. Kale is singing on the cd! I told you it was him!" She said that he denied being the pirate all week of SH when he was in regular clothes...but she figured him out anyways :) Miss you all.

Debbie

Anonymous said...

Well, you tell her it wasn't really me! It sure did look like me, but I don't think it was...matey!

Argh!! MR. Kale