Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Here for the last few weeks, we have had a covey of quail coming to visit and walk around the yard.  Yesterday evening, they brought the kiddos with them!  There were 6 precious babies with them and it was pretty neat how they had their travels organized.  There was a "couple" of adults up front and another "couple" that would take up the rear and follow them.

 

Tummy Time

Man, this is hard work!

 Sticking my tongue out...

Arial view...

Tuckered out....

Toll Roads

 
The debate - To use them or not to use them?

Lee had a meeting in Fort Worth this past weekend.  The meeting started on Friday, so we decided to drive through the night on Thursday night.  That decision was a brilliant one, if you don't mind me saying!  Simply in the fact that we gave Gage a bottle about an hour into the trip, when we were already stopping to fill up, and he slept the rest of the way!!!  Whew...that makes an 8 hr trip with a baby tolerable!!!  (I'll tell you later about the drive home!)
So, as we are driving through Austin at 11:30 at night, we decided to stay on I-35, as there shouldn't be much traffic that late.  Ha ha, I know, joke's on us!  They had I-35 down to one lane through most of Austin!  It took us an extra hour just to drive through Austin.  Enter in:  The Toll Roads

Soooo....on the way home, it's Sunday late afternoon, after a long weekend.  We figure there will be more traffic then and decide to take the new Toll Road.  This new road starts in Georgetown (about 30 miles N of Austin) and ends in Buda (about 30 miles S of Austin).  I happen to have purchased a TX Toll Tag a few years ago, even though it is seldom used and every time we drive on it or through Austin, we talk about the pros/cons of using that road.


What we never have known how much it costs to drive the entire length...until now.  I just received the emailed bill and it cost us $16.80 to travel one direction, which means if we had used it both ways, we would have paid $33.70 to drive around Austin and avoid the traffic.  That's the cost of a decent meal right there!

So...the debate.  Will we continue using the Toll Road and pay $33.70 to drive around Austin...or are we willing to sacrifice the time and sanity of messing with the traffic???  It will be interesting to see.  I know that as we sat in traffic for an hour at midnight on Thursday, I would have paid the money. But probably been pretty hacked!