Overnight trip to Austin

We went to Austin last weekend for a quick trip.  This is about a 3 hr drive from Dallas. It is a great town with a lot to do.  We stayed downtown which was fun as they close down one of the streets on Saturday night and there are people all over.  Live music in every bar.

On Saturday when we got there, we went directly to Hamilton Pool.
 

Swimming was closed at the pool due to the flooding that they had earlier in the year.  We were able to walk a trail to the Pedernales river and go swimming.  The air temperature was 103 so it was refreshing even though the water temperature was ~85 degrees. 

We then checked into our hotel and walked up to the Congress street bridge where millions of bats come out at sunset.  Below is a picture and a video (Not sure if this made it but you can see clouds of bats in the distance).  The smell as they flew by was strong.

 

The capital building was quite nice at night and day.

 

Live music for dinner.  A good jazz band.

 

 Sunday we finished off with a drink at Lake Travis.  Austin is a lot more hilly than Dallas.

Fun with Liam

We had only one more swimming day at the lake but Grandpa and Liam played a lot of badminton and we went to the Medina Railroad Museum where Liam was allowed to control the whistle and bells of the train.  Now he is thoroughly enjoying DC.  Tomorrow we will go back to the Natural History Museum because, on our previous visit, we were so exhausted from walking around all the monuments that we only watched IMAX films.