Bat Festival

Thanks to the Pauly family, we heard about the Lubee Bat Festival, which apparently is a yearly thing we'd never heard of. I need to subscribe to the Pauly "fun for kids in or near Gainesville" newsletter or something.













This is the only time of the year the public can just show up to check out the bats, and it's something I highly recommend. They do a great job providing education and fun for the kids, and of course you get to see some very cool bats! The kids had a great time making crafts and having lunch with their friends. There was also a comic book that the kids could put together by gathering pages at the various tables. And I learned a bit more about how to start a vegetable garden, which I'd like to do...one day.

Oh, and also, we noticed some bats moving around the cage, upside down. Then, a couple turned over so they were right side up, quickly urinated, and then hung upside down again. Do bats need to be right side up to pee?? This is not something E learned about bats when they covered them in school ;-)