Home Again

Well, we are home from our wonderful trip to San Antonio. It is a beautiful city, hilly, trees, old and full of character. There is so much to do that we are already thinking about when we can go back there and explore some more. The first day we arrived after taking our time to get there. We stopped at 2 different Outlet shopping centers (one was amazing and definitely a girl's weekend dream trip) and we enjoyed a few shops. Then we stopped at a Czech bakery for some yummy nourishment. When we finally arrived at La Cantera we found the place to be gorgeous and the views wonderful, though it is no Colorado. We spent the rest of the afternoon roaming the grounds and learning about the place. After dinner we enjoyed the sunsetting as we sat in the hot tub and then had a smores from the fire pit. It was so relaxing and breath taking. I felt the cares of the world fading away!!!

On Sunday morning we took a long walk and discovered more little special things on the resort grounds and then had a wonderful breakfast brunch. Then off to Target for sunglasses (I broke mine) and cheaters (I tore my close up vision contact :)) and a disposable camera (of all the things to forget.) Then, we hung out at the adult pool for the rest of the day until the late afternoon.

The afternoon found us in downtown San Antonio. An old city, amazing architecture and character.The famous Riverwalk was more than I could have imagined. We took a boat tour through it all, this is the 2nd most popular tourist activity in Texas. Truly amazing and pretty. I felt like I had been swept away to another country.

We ate dinner at Rio Rio and had one of my favorite meals, fajitas! Yum. Then home for a quiet evening in our room while a horrible storm blew through the city!

The next day we went exploring in New Braunfels, an old German town and home to Schliterbahn, the world's biggest and best waterpark. The rivers in the town were full, swift and breathtaking. You can canoe, raft, kayak and tube on these rivers. Unfortunately, due to the storm the night before you couldn't get near the raging river. We ended our time there with a tour of Gruene, another German town. Again, I was treated to more than I had imagined. We ate at a restaurant that was an old cotton gin and on the river. The restaurant was built into the hill of the banks of the river, so the decks of the restaurants were in the trees overlooking the water. Then we roamed this little town. Quaint, quiet and so relaxing.

We enjoyed all the scenery, but more importantly, we enjoyed one another. One question we pondered was "When you look at our lives, what is different than you would have expected." We had many different things, but more than anything, we both said, our lives were far richer than we ever could have imagined and God had been kinder to us than we could ever have thought.

It is so good to stop life and ponder. It is so good to hop off the merry go round and look at what you are doing and where you are going. It is good to look back and see where you have been, where you could be and how incredibly amazing God has been. That is what this little getaway was for me, a time to reflect on the incredible journey i have enjoyed with my favorite person in the whole world.