Taste this, I think it's gone bad

A few weekends ago, on our quest to Discover Austin, we went to McKinney State Falls. I give it two thumbs down. We should have guessed when we passed a sign on the way in that said, "Water levels low, no refunds" that our trip to "see the falls" might come up short. However, I cling unflinchingly to a commitment to miss the obvious, so it should come as no surprise that I missed that, too. We saw many parched cacti:
This particular type reminds me of ping pong paddles. I have yet to see the sort of cactus that you imagine when you think of drawings you've seen of cacti (the kind that looks like a man with his arms raised), but I've seen plenty of this. And as someone who's touched them, I can tell you that yes, the spines are actually sharp (and if by touching you mean I can't feel this at all. It's really not that sharp, I mean even when I touch it like this it doesn't hurt. I can't feel a thing, see? AAAHHH! I'm bleeding! I'm bleeding! My finger is stuck on it!, then yes, I've touched one).

Speaking of cacti, that white tuna I posted about? We bought one to try it out and after an internet search, determined that it is a member of the prickly pear family. To enjoy it, cut off the tough skin and eat the inside. Rumor has it that it tastes like watermelon and that you just swallow the seeds. I guess it tasted like watermelon, but it's too labor intensive to eat because that thing was nothing BUT seeds. So there's that.

Instead of falls at McKinney State Falls, we saw many of these pools of water, nestled in pockets of limestone.
Pretty cool, actually. Our summary of the falls that day was that it was kind of like walking across the surface of the moon, if the moon were made of limestone and was very close to the sun.

Rumor has it that our class trip in May will take me here, a prospect which James and I are quite excited about.