While in Austin we stayed with an awesome friend of ours. His name is Mark, and if you are going to Austin you should hire him as a tour guide. For real. On the last day before we left he determined that we had seen everything good in Austin so he took us to San Antonio (technically for The Alamo, but, as I'm sure Carly will cover, The Alamo is entertaining for a very brief period of time.) In San Antonio Mark took us to The Buckhorn Saloon and Museum. The place is basically a temple of taxidermy but any museum that encourages you to drink has to be good. Early on I took this picture:



Carly determined that the following would be a better picture:



The following is a completely gratuitous series of photos of me with dead animals.

It's a friendly polar bear.  Did you know that polar bear fur is actually transparent, and their skin is black?







After staring deep into their glassy eyes I have come away with no secrets. Please do not touch the displays so that everyone can enjoy them.