After Patti, Dudley, Jim and I finished touring the L.B.J. Presidential Library, we ate dinner at the Golden Corral. Then we drove to see the million bats that perch under the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge during the day and fly out at night to eat mosquitos. We parked in the wrong location and walked almost a mile to find the bridge. We knew that we were close to the bridge when we saw this symbolic bat statue.
Luckily, we found the bridge. Patti and Dudley stayed on the bridge. Instead of trying to squeeze in, Jim and I decided to walk down a flight of stairs that led to the underside of the bridge. That was a really good decision.
It was almost pitch black under the stairs. Thank goodness I had my reliable flash! Jim would tell me to take a picture when he thought that hordes of bats were flying out. Here are six pictures that I shot (blindly) and was fortunate enough to catch some of the bats.
Unbelievably, we saw a friend under the bridge. Christian Rector's mom Allison and friends walked right by us and said "Hello." Naturally, Trojan Candy asked someone to take our picture. Allison stood on Jim's left.
When Trojan Candy walked up the stairs, I saw friend Eileen Ishizue and her friend Jim. They told me that they could see some bats from the bridge.
What an awe-inspiring evening!
Trojan Candy, along with my sister Patti Poon, my brother-in-law Dudley Poon and husband Jim, flew to Austin, Texas, for the Trojans' football game against the Texas Longhorns. We arrived on Wednesday night and decided to tour the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library which was on the University of Texas at Austin campus.
On August 1, 1966, I was at home for summer break in my home town of Houston, Texas, when Charles Whitman's shooting massacre occurred from this Clock Tower.
What an interesting day on the University of Texas campus.