Texan Patriotism

Let's just get the fact that baby remains in the womb out of the way right now. We had a good 4th, albeit a little different than we are used to since we usually see a lot of family. We spent the morning at a flag raising and breakfast activity our ward held. It was nice and we got to know some member's of our ward better.

We hung out at the pool for awhile then, as a result of going to the ward activity, a nice family in the ward invited us to a delicious barbeque later on in the day. Topping off the evening, we went to an extremely crowded mall parking lot to watch a sub-par fireworks display put on by Six Flags.

                       

Maybe we were just spoiled seeing the Stadium of Fire show every year for the past few years, but the fireworks were not too impressive, especially with a Neiman Marcus building covering half the show.

On Saturday we headed up to Austin to see what there is to see.

We looked around at the State Capitol and that was pretty cool.

We drove around the University of Texas at Austin campus and marveled at it's hugeness, then had some barbeque at Iron Works. Good stuff.

Last but not least, we had to see the bats. If you haven't heard about the bats, go here. Sadly, we were a little late, and didn't get to see the mass exodus, but we still saw some lazy late comers flying out. We went down to the bridge and got a big whiff of the bat guano and while we were down by the lake, we took this picture of a cool looking building downtown.