Bats? Where Are You?

This summer, Austin Agape is doing something very fun on Thursday nights. We're having THRILLING THURSDAYS!

What are Thrilling Thursdays?

Every Thursday, a person from our group is choosing a surprise activity for us. The person tells us where to meet, if there's a particular way we should dress, and how much money to bring. And then we have a surprise!

This week's surprise involved going down to the Congress Street Bridge to watch the bats fly. Did you know that every year 750,000 Mexican freetail bats come to Austin to make their home under one bridge? That's right, and they live here for six months. All of the bats are female, and they're pregnant. So by the end of the summer, there are 1.5 million bats living under one bridge! Every night they come out to fly, and they save us from an even larger population of mosquitoes and other bugs. Thanks bats!

The bats usually fly just a bit after sunset which was 8:30pm this Thrilling Thursday. But guess what? The bats decided to sleep in a little, and they didn't start coming out until 9:30 when it was already dark! So we didn't get as nice of a view as we hoped to see. But it was still fun, and we laughed a lot while we waited on the bridge.

Gotta love Thrilling Thursdays!