More Pictures from Mike and Patty’s Visit

I had forgotten that Wayne had taken some pictures when Mike and Patty were here.  I just edited them so here they are.

Here is our motorhome at our spot in Oak Forest RV Park.  Note that it is long enough to park one car in front and the other one in back.

 

Mike and Patty were parked to his left as he took this picture and here is their coach and car.

He got a better picture as we were waiting for the bats.  That is Mike, Patty and I on the left hand side of the picture.

And here we are closer up.  Note that we all had on long sleeves.  It was a beautiful Fall night.

 

Again, it was great to spend time with them.

Harvest Moon and Visit from Mike and Patty

I thought it was about time I posted again.  On the Wednesday before we left Aransas Pass we went to Captain Hook’s at Port Aransas with Edie and George our across the street neighbors from The Palms.  Naturally I didn’t take my camera but Edie took a picture of the harvest moon with her cell phone while we were on the ferry.

The next day we drove to Austin and we are staying at the Oak Forest RV Park.  It is aptly named as there are lots of oak trees on the property.  We  chose a spot without trees so that we can get Direct TV. 

Last Tuesday Mike and Patty who traveled with us to Alaska and the Canadian Maritimes came to see us.

On Wednesday they went to the Bob Bullock Texas History Museum and enjoyed it.  Then we went to County Line for Bar-B-Que.  Patty had a whole rack of beef ribs but the picture is on her camera.  We all had leftovers to take home.

On Thursday we did a tour of Austin.  Austin has painted cows on street corners.

This one was in front of the restaurant where we ate lunch.

Patty took a picture of me with the cow.  The pictures of both of us are on her camera.

Lunch was at Threadgill’s which is a fixture in Austin.  The original Threadgill's is in an old filling station and is where Janis Joplin got her start.  This one is at the site of the old Armadillo World Headquarters.

Kenneth Threadgill was a musician and lots of musicians still play there.

These concrete armadillos are above all of the windows on the outside of the building.

 

We had the waitress take a picture of the four of us.

 

The pictures on the wall behind us are all musicians who have played there.  There was one of a really young Willie Nelson.

We drove around some of the older parts of Austin and came across this pumpkin patch with another painted cow.

Patty decided that she wanted ice cream so we went to Amy’s.  Amy’s has homemade ice cream.  Here is Mike feeding Patty ice cream.

That evening we went under the Congress Street Bridge.  Austin has the largest urban bat colony around and they come out at dusk.  There were people lining the bridge and on both sides of the lake.

As it got dark the bats came out between the middle building and the building to the right.  I took lots of pictures but the didn’t show up.  At times the sky was almost black with bats.

Friday morning Mike and Patty left and headed to San Antonio.  Wayne and I headed to Magnolia to meet his nephew, Billie, and a friend on Saturday to move our storage room to Austin.

I have been going over to the storage room organizing things this week.  Not a fun job but a necessary one.