Intended Consequence: From the 19th Century to the 21st Century

Sunday morning dawned bright and clear and early. We enjoyed breakfast on the balcony and then we had some family worship in the living room. We read one of Jude's favorite stories from the Jesus StoryBook Bible, "the one about God dying." Though we made a big mistake - we read 3 stories and now every time we read Jude insists we read the whole story - which is fine if we have 20-30 minutes.

Breakfast time. They all look tired.

After breakfast and worship we loaded up and took a trip back in time. We went to Pioneer Farms in Austin. It was very cool (not the temperature). It is a couple of acres of land that have houses from lots of time periods and different people groups in Texas. Very historical. Which is good I like history. It made me wish even more that I had cable and was subscribed to STARZ because Outlander is about to air - this Saturday - as a TV series. If you have access to this show I would love you a whole lot if I could watch it somehow. Anyway there was also a barn with horses, some chickens, some longhorns. The boys were ok. Not great. But ok. Shiloh figured out he could get daddy to carry him almost the whole time.

Here are some pictures of our time at Pioneer Farms:

We had bought a groupon for a BBQ restaurant in Austin and decided to eat lunch there when we were finished at the farm. It was definitely a time shock to go from 19th century to 21st century. Our waitresses were barely clothed and there were numerous TV's on the wall. If we were not entitled to $40 worth of food we may have left. But the food was good and to avoid staring at our waitress I watched some NASCAR and let me tell you those guys can change tires fast. The fastest I saw was 12 seconds. Wow.

We made it back to the Aust-E house and all of us took naps. After naps we grilled fajitas and had another go at seeing the bats. I'm so glad we went back to the bridge. We got there before the bats emerged at sat under the bridge. It was awesome. I heard some saying there were 1.5 million bats this summer. I have not idea how many there were but after 30 minutes they were still swarming out. We asked Jude to count them and he said there were too many so we used the opportunity to re-tell the story of Abraham and the stars and God's promise. It was a good evening!