Sunday, October 3, 2010

Today was our first day off. We drove into Fredericksburg. They were having Oktoberfest. It was pretty much a lot of food, drink, and music. We ate several things that were new to us like potato pancakes, and crepes. There were several good polka bands playing and we enjoyed sitting outside and listening to the music and eating.


Entrance to Oktoberfest, Fredericksburg, Texas


Making Crepes


Lots of food and music!


One of they many bands

Later that evening we drove to the Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area. The Old Tunnel WMA is the smallest Wildlife Management Area in Texas, only 16.1 acres. The abandoned railroad tunnel is home to 3 million Mexican Free-tailed Bats. If you look down the tunnel, you can see the bats flying around. About 7:30 p.m. they started coming out of the tunnel. It was an awesome sight!


Looking through the tunnel


It takes a long time for 3 million bats to take flight!