Before this post starts we have to also include one big thing we
forgot that we did with Mary-Joyce and that is go to her friend Big
Rick’s 4th of July fireworks display. Big Rick spent more than $5000
on his fireworks and we watched every one go up in a 2 and a half hour
display. It was awesome and was finished off with 2 drunk biker chicks
having a cat fight. Gotta love Texas!

Anyway, yesterday we drove to Austin and today we explored it. It has
a great and cheap downtown bus service which we used to see the sights
such as the state Capitol building (pic) which was very open and we
spent ages just wandering around. Then after we had seen all the
sights we went to dinner before watching some of the city’s 1.5
million bats take flight at dusk. Our final destination for the day
was the Cactus Cafe where we saw singer/songwriter Betty Soo who was
so good we bought her CD for the car.

Tomorrow is the drive to Houston to stay with some friends of Mary-
Joyce who have been nice enough to give us a spare bed for a couple of
nights.