Austin...and yet another birthday

So for my birthday we drove out to Austin, which is a bit of enigma, its a really old hippy town, its where willie nelson somes from and still plays, its a bit of an oasis of cool and alternative-ness in a the very conservative state of texas...and hence has always appealled to me. unfortunately when we went....well...ive never seen so much rain in all my life...which did not make for a great birthday. by night it cleared up and was sunny, but i guess by then the damage had been done. we did see the famous bat colony of austin fly out of the bridge at dusk...all 3 million of them suddenly and all at once flew out from under the bridge at the same time, which is an amazing sight (if not smell) to behold. the building is the state capital of texas...where mr bus used to be governor...least said