Thursday

Yesterday morning Sammy was knocking on our door at 5:45 to see if Jamie wanted to do the 6:00 a.m. three-mile walk with my dad. She seems to really like doing that so Jamie went with her. She gets to see lots of outside cats, dogs, bunnies and my dad teaches her about the plants and trees.

Claudia and Jordan are back from their overnights at their dad's house and they had a very fun time. They went shopping and to a movie (hell boy for Claudia and that center of the earth movie for Jordan) and out for chinese.

We met them and their dad at Krause Springs yesterday where we all swam, everyone but me and Claudia did the swinging from the rope and dropping into the water thing and it was just a great time. I am seriously disappointed in the photos I got, though. This was a *beautiful* spot with waterfalls and moss and ferns and my photos just sucked. :(

Their dad brought a bunch of his arrow heads to show Sammy, several of us got fire ant bites, we saw a *huge* spider on the side of huge cypress tree. Oh, and we saw a white tail doe and her fawn--so sweet!

After that, the five of us drove into Austin, eating sandwiches in the car, and stood on the Congress Avenue bridge and watched millions of bats swarm out from under the bridge. It was so cool and the noise was indescribable.