Everything's fussier in Texas - Part III

We spent the next two days in San Antonio, where we explored the Alamo, Witte Museum, Japanese garden, zoo, and River Walk. Altogether, it was a pleasant vacation though nothing will ever top Korea for George, and he begs every day to go back to Korea and go to Line Friends and take the train to Busan. 

At the Japanese garden with Otto Brown

Ginormous koi that we were not allowed to feed

Henry sneak attack

Japanese garden overlook

Waiting for food at a Biergarten on the River Walk

The boys were not impressed with the Alamo, but hopefully won't forget it

Everything's fussier in Texas - Part II

The second day we explored the Longhorn Cavern State Park. We took a 90-minute cave tour and saw some adorable sleeping tri-color bats. (BBB came along for the tour.) During the evening, we headed back to Austin to catch some live bluegrass music and eat from a Thai food cart.

BBB in the cave

More BBB cave action

BBB hanging out before the cave tour

Henry, batless but with Otto Brown stuffed into a replica of a WWII satchel

Goofing off before the cave tour

Everything's fussier in Texas - Part I

We spent fall break in Texas this year, mostly because we heard there are bats there and Geo has been obsessed with bats since our trip to Carlsbad.

We spent our first day at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg. We saw an educational program complete with a reenactment featuring a flame thrower that the boys loved. Otto Brown came along and tried to drive a tank.

Later that evening we headed to downtown Austin to the Congress Avenue Bridge and saw thousands of bats fleeing their home underneath the bridge to catch some bugs.

Otto Brown isn't a very promising soldier

WWII tank

Hanging out at the hotel

Anesthetized by Terraria

Sk8er boi

Bring your BBBs to work

BBB (the Carlsbad Cavern bat formerly known as Bradley Bartholomew Boris) accompanied Mommy to her office last week. How cccute!

Fall colors

On Saturday after cello group class, I accompanied Mommy on our now-annual fall colors drive. This time we tried Guanella Pass and got to see beautiful aspen stands changing to bright yellow and gold.
We hiked around the summit for 5 minutes before the wind got too strong.

[On last year's drive, a guy at McDonald's overheard us talking about palindromes and he shared his favorite with us: Sit on a potato pan, Otis. Since we have several Otises (i.e., Baby Otis and Colorful Baby Otis, both owls), we thought that was hilarious.]

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

We did a quick Labor Day weekend roadtrip to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison, a national park in Western Colorado. We still need to make it to the Great Sand Dunes, but otherwise have visited all of the national parks in Colorado!