Jared and I decided to go exploring and find out what's the thing to do on a Saturday evening. Well . . . let me tell you we had a wonderful time together. We started off on the MetroRail. It's only a dollar each way.
So much easier than driving downtown in the oh so wonderful Austin traffic and looking for parking that is unnecessarily expensive. Needless to say, we thought the metro was a lot more fun. The train took us right into the heart of downtown by what we like to call the Bruce Wayne building . . . turns out its just a really really tall bank - that also happens to be known as the owl building because it looks like an owl :)
Before we did any exploring we knew we only had a little bit of time before sunset and we wanted to go to the Congress bridge that is famous for millions of bats living under it and flying out right before sunset! We got there just as one of the waves of bats was finishing and we thought we'd missed them :( but ten or fifteen minutes later another huge wave of bats came flying out from under the bridge (we found out that the reason for all these bats is because of the design of the bridge is perfect for the feet to hang . . . crazy huh? Anyway here's some pictures . . . the black dots in the pictures are bats.
It was a little cloudy and I was hoping to get a picture on the bridge of the beautiful sunset behind us, but the clouds covered it up :( this is the best I got. Still a really pretty sky color.
After the bats and pushing past all of the hundreds of people around us . . . we made our way to an ice cream shop called Amy's ice cream. Delicious! Sort of like Cold Stone ice cream except the employees are CRAZY! The pride themselves on how silly they are. They were constantly throwing ice cream in the air and catching it in the bowls for customers. Our server asked if Jared would catch our ice cream from across the street . . . we thought he was kidding, but neither of us wanted to do it so he just gave it to us.
When we were paying for our ice cream, our server pulled up the receipt signature and drew a picture (upside down) of a shark in the water and then a speech bubble and told Jared to sign in the speech bubble . . . so they really are kind of strange, but I guess that's what makes Austin, Austin. I'm not just exaggerating here's a picture :)
After a long walk around downtown we decided to head home on the metro and call it a night.
Wonderful night well spent experiencing the night life of downtown Austin.
