Austin, TX - Beth's Bachelorette Part (Part 2)

Once we finished the Duck Tour we came back to the loft to shower and get dressed for the evening.  We had reservations at the Four Season at 7:15 PM on the patio so that we could see the bats fly. 

The Bride looking sexy

The stripes

Here is a little background on the history of the bats in Austin: The Congress Avenue Bridge spans Town Lake in downtown Austin and is home to the largest urban bat colony in North America.  The colony is estimated at 1.5 million Mexican free-tail bats.   Each night from mid-March to November, the bats emerge from under the bridge at dusk to blanket the sky as they head out to forage for food.

So we got to the Four Season and ordered up a drink while we waited for it to get dark.

Once it got a little darker we headed down to the water to see if we could see the bats.

We waited and waited but only saw a few bats fly right above us.  Some locals told us that the bats have been flying later and later so it's almost pitch black when they come out.  We decided that we would head on to dinner.

Since we didn't get to see the bats I attached a picture of what it looks like.

From there we grabbed a cab and headed to a Mexican spot for dinner.  Here we had good food, margarita’s and Annabelle made an announcement for the evening.

The announcement is as follows:  Jake (Beth's wonderful fiancé) had sent each girl $30 to spend only on alcohol for the evening and a 5 hour energy drink.  He also bought our first round of shots which we had to take after dinner!  Thanks Jake for everything you did!

Once we had our shots we grabbed a cab back to the loft to get Beth dressed for the evening!

From here we headed to the Broken Spoke....one of the most famous honky tonk bars in Texas.  Most of us were really excited about going to a fun country bar. 

When we got there it was a little different then what we expected.  Here was the age bracket of 95% of the people in the bar.

We still had a great time and several of the ladies took a trip around the dance floor.

From here we went out to hail a cab to get us back to dirty sixth street to hit up some 80's dancing!  In our efforts to hail a cab we ended up hailing a limo

 Meet Beth's new friend....

It happen to be this girls birthday and she thought we looked cute so she decided to pick us up!

Emily and I in the Limo

We got back to dirty sixth street and headed to Plush for 80's music and dancing.  This was a perfect spot to end the night.

Thank you Beth for a wonderful weekend!  We all had the best time and are so happy to be a part of you and Jake's special day!  Looking forward to many more memories with you ladies!!  I am truly blessed to have such wonderful friends.