Great Horny Toads!

...OK, OK, it was a Texas spiny lizard. Kris saw this outside on a rock outcrop at the Austin Nature Center this afternoon (there was also one inside in a cage). The nature center is nice - there is a "dinosaur" dig area and a little zoo type area (almost all the animals in the "zoo" are not capable of being freed - like they have wing or eye injuries). Kris's favorite was the coati (sort of a stretched out raccoon). There are a bunch of nature trails but we ran out of ambition in the afternoon heat. The center is pretty good, especially because it is free! They also have a sort of natural artifact swap program, so we are thinking of trading some our extra fossils for different fossils, or maybe even an armadillo hide (though Katie and I saw parts of one on the bike ride this morning...hmmm). Near the nature center there is a footbridge across the Colorado River. There were a lot of people on watercraft on the river - it looked like a lot of fun. This morning, before it got too hot, Katie and I went for a bike ride. Later in the morning we all went to an play-date-type event at the playground at her elementary school. We met some nice people, but nobody else from her class came. We had lunch at the Culvers in Austin - food tastes like the food at the other Culvers we have attended.