Special Friends

We enjoyed an eventful weekend with some very special friends, Kassie Dutton and Priscilla Venegas. We laughed and ate and talked and ate and walked and ate and shopped and drank and had church and ate and rested, went to church and ate!! You can tell that we crammed into our car just so we wouldn't have to fight the traffic trying to stay with one another.

We toured the Botanical Gardens. Of course, the last of the summer is not when you go to see beautiful flowers, but the grounds were very nice and it was free!

We also went to see the bats and were very disappointed. We waited and waited until sundown. It was also "Batfest" weekend, so there were hundreds of people there and the bridge was completely closed to vehicle traffic. In the picture below, it is hard to really see, but the dog has bat wings!

We left when it was dark without seeing any bats! After searching online, I came across this explanation....

Eventually, when it was fully dark, bats came out and flew in dizzying circles under the bridge, but they didn’t emerge in the big stream that I’ve always seen before. Even if they had, it might have been too dark to see. An explanation for the disappointing bat show that I overheard is that our rainy summer produced so many mosquitoes and other bugs that the bats are fat and happy. They aren’t as hungry, so they emerge later, and they can stay under the bridge and still find enough to eat.

So, we headed to the Mellow Mushroom and enjoyed some wonderful pizza on the UT campus just as the UT game was letting out! Karla loved the crowds! LOL!

We had so much fun and hated to see them go. Thanks for blessing our church with your song and testimony. It is always good times when you are with friends that you have known so well for so long!