When Cara’s favorite ice cream place opened for the season, we made note of it on the blog. So I thought it was only fitting to make an announcement at the close of Dick & June’s 2008 ice cream season. It isn’t really exaggerating to say that Cara goes to Dick & June’s almost every day. In September, because she knows the shop is closing for the season, she sometimes visits twice a day. 

Yesterday was Dick & June’s last day, and I took Cara on her fairwell visit. Dick was manning the scoop. Lucky for her, Cara’s ice cream was “on the house” because she was “such a loyal customer.”

Here’s a picture of Cara with Dick:

We’re in the process of moving Cara’s blog to a new platform. (If you want to read more about it, this link will tell you the full story.) Soon all the links to the blog will point to the new blog, but we’re still in the process of updating.

In the meantime, if you come online to visit the blog, please check out here:

http://www.caraaustin.com/blog

You’ll see an updated design, but all the content is the same. The BIGGEST DIFFERENCE, however, is here by popular demand - you will now be able to leave comments. And we hope you do!

So come on over to http://www.caraaustin.com/blog and leave some comments today.

A few days every week, Cara brings Kyley to work with her. It took Kyley just a short time to get used to being at work, but now she sleeps happily on the corner of Cara’s desk as Cara works.

The first day that Kyley came to work, she got specially dressed up for the occasion.

I just wanted to post a correction to the last picture – according to Cara and her Aunt Debbie, the photo of Cara in the snowstorm was actually in San Antonio, Texas, in her grandparent’s backyard. Thanks for the tip, Debbie!

This is the picture that I mentioned in the blog post about the hailstorm in Kenya. This is little Cara out in a snowstorm in Houston, Texas. Please note her “mittens,” which are really socks!

Cara grew up in Texas (Houston, not Austin). And since it’s never cold there (and often hotter than hell, I’m told) she never really got to experience snow when she was a kid. Except for the one time that there was a big hail storm that dropped enough ice to make it look like it snowed. There is a picture of Cara as a little kid with socks on her hands as mittens (she didn’t own any, she didn’t need them!), looking really happy and playing in the Texas version of snow.

Last week, Cara sent me a link to this story of a Freak Hailstorm in Keyna, which made her think of that experience. The pictures are awesome. To this day, Cara says that she loves living in the northeast because of the snow – to someone who grows up only in the oppressive heat, it’s magical.

Cara just sent me this link, in reference to this article on Minoan Bull Jumping. It’s a video and it’s pretty amazing.