Support Adventurers with your purchase!
The artwork of two south Austin Adventurers, Melissa Harbuck and Joseph Ramos, will be featured on T-shirts, caps, and tote bags offered by Paper Clouds Apparel of Phoenix, Arizona this August 5-18. Half the profits from all sales of Melissa and Joseph’s work, during these two weeks, will go to the Adventurers Academy, which provides social, educational, recreational and vocational opportunities for Austin-area individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Go to www.papercloudsapparel.com on August 5 to purchase their designs.
To find out more about the Adventurers and the Adventurers Academy, visit www.austinadventurers.org

Adventurers offer their glass art work at the City Wide Garage Sale this weekend! Come by and visit, pick up a great gift, and support the Adventurers, as well. we'll be there 10-5 on Saturday, 11-5 on Sunday. All work is hand made by Adventures, our "Glass Art Class", supported by our partner, Spirit In Glass. Thanks Mary and Charlene!

Samantha Meets a Long Horn!
by Samantha H.
Samantha and the Adventurers was walking at Bandera, TX one morning. We were trucking along in a group, until Samantha meet a longhorn. He thought I had food. But I didn't and I was not scared at all! So I went along to finished our walk. He was good. I was cool and brave. And this is my story.

Fossil Hike
by Beau, Melissa, Joseph and Jacob, as told to Mrs. Mackey
On Thursday night we had a bumpy hike to find fossils. The terrain was rocky. Melissa and Beau both liked walking The sky was blue and there was no rain. Joseph saw five green, brown, and gray lizards. Joseph also saw two walking stick bugs and showed everyone else.

When we got to the fossil pit Mr. Mackey talked about the rocks and fossils. Then everyone walked around looking for fossils. Beau found a clam shell fossil. A long time ago this place was under water. Melissa and Beau and other Adventurers found cylinder fossils called crinoids. Jacob found one fossil. We looked for fossils until the sun went down. Then we hiked back to the cabins. When we got back we went to the campfire.

The Silver Spur Adventurers are back from the Cowboy Capital of the World, and have they got stories to tell (and some pictures to share)! Over the next several days, we'll post some of the stories they've written.
Watch for new installments every few days!

Silver Spur Trip by Melissa H. (as told to Meltzer)
This was Melissa's 2nd time at the Silver Spur. She liked the wranglers. They were really nice. The wranglers are Robin and Tracy. Robert and Jay also help with the horses. Tracy helped Melissa with her horse Texas. Melissa needed help on the hills. She was a little scared but she did it anyway! She really enjoyed it! She had lots of fun with the horses. Jay was fun to hang out with. Kay and Garry are the owners. Kay was out of town visiting her sick Daddy. She came back on Friday and Melissa was very happy to see sweet Kay!

Thanks to Matt Peyton and the Peyton Family Foundation, Adventurers, with several dedicated staff and volunteers, enjoyed a great baseball game Friday night at Dell Diamond. We traveled in style from the Academy in a chartered bus, sat at tables on the "Party Porch", and ate our fill of hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, and even ice cream from the buffet right next to our tables. It was fun to have several new Adventurers join us, as well. And, yes, the Express won... In the bottom of the 12th inning!

What a success! Your hard work raised over $3000 to fund our community outings and adventures. Thanks to parents, families, and volunteers who contributed time, resources, and physical labor to make it happen! And we are especially proud of all the Adventurers who worked so hard and helped so much!

Now we'll start looking ahead to our next activities and events: Academy Outdoor Education Camp, April 22-26, Round Rock Express Baseball, May 3, Spring Fest 2013 on May 11, and lots of other fun stuff in betwee

This Saturday, April 6, 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
Woodlawn Baptist Church Parking Lot
4600 Manchaca Rd, Austin, TX 78745
Come by for great deals on furniture, electronics, clothes, toys, books, and more. PLUS The Adventurers will offer their own hand-made fused glass artwork that makes great gifts! AND They'll be selling baked goods and snacks while you browse the sale.
Donors:
Bring your donations to Woodlawn Baptist Church during the day Friday. Early is better, but later is fine, too! We'll be checking in, sorting, and working all day. See you there!

Adventurers are all about the outdoors, so this spring break we headed outside to explore, exercise, and learn about nature with our friends. Oh, yeah, we ALSO headed down to the Snake Farm in New Braunfels. I know, it just sounds nasty, but it's a really great, educational place.
Our Spring Break Camp ended this Friday, with hikes, games, and a cookout at Mary Moore Searight Park. Thanks once again to K'Cee Edwards for joining us for a camp sing-a-long to close the day!

We enjoyed another great time at Threadgill's Gospel Brunch on Sunday, with the music of George Ensle and the Groove Angels: Greg Whitfield, Mike Rieman, Jeff Hogan, and Evylyn Page. It was a great way to start the week and celebrate our new "official" tax-exempt status.
We'll see (and hear!) many of these friends at Spring Fest on May 11!

This Friday, Jim Swift from KXAN-TV visited the Academy to interview and film Adventurers in action. We showed him our nutrition and money math classes, reading activities, exercise and fitness program, a game of Adventurers Ball, and some of our campfire singing! The story should air sometime next week... We'll let you know.

But wait, there's more!

To top the day off, K'Cee Edwards dropped by in the afternoon to add his guitar, voice, and spirit to our campfire sing-a-long. He left with a promise to join us at our Spring Break Cookout next Friday!