The Ray Family: September 2010

Labor day weekend Jordan and I headed down to Austin for the day he has been training for...his first Triathlon! Jordan competed in the 2010 Avia Austin Triathlon. He trained for 3 months in between long work hours of Neuroradiology and the Texas summer heat. We headed down to Austin Sunday morning so Jordan could register, collect his time chip, check out the expo and turn in his bike for the race. It was neat to see the many different types of people competing in the race. After the expo and lunch at Katz's, Jordan dropped me off to study a little Patho/Pharm while he drove through the course.

Jordan and I carb loaded at Taverno's, an Italian restaurant a couple of blocks from our hotel and then walked around Austin. On our way to the race location that night Jordan and I spotted this....

all these people of the Congress Street bridge sparked our attention, and we realized they were waiting on the bats....yes bats....Mexican bats...about 1.5 million of them. They sleep during the day underneath the bridge and then every night at dusk they fly out to eat their body weight in mosquitos. I told the lady explaining this to me that only Austin people would embrace the bats. She responded that they have no mosquitos there. Hmmm...I am moving to Austin ASAP.

This is truly an Austin event--the tour boats, kayakers, and people swarmed in to check out the bats...unfortunately there is no pictures on the bats, they were a little shy and didn't come out until it was too dark for the iphone camera.

Bright and early...like 5am, Jordan woke up and headed to the event!

It was still dark when they were ushering everyone down to the water...

Body marked.....check!