May 31, 2004: Central Texas.
In early May, we traveled to Belton, Texas where our goddaughter Rachel Booth celebrated her first communion. Rachel's father Bill Booth is a high-school friend of AM's. Then, over Memorial Day weekend, we went to San Antonio and Lampasas to visit our friends Karl and Julie Rivas and their boys Justin and Paul. We stayed with them at their house north of San Antonio (in Spring Branch) and rafted/kayaked the Guadalupe for a couple of days, then went to Julie's family ranch near Lampasas to ride horses, fish (that's where Gina caught her first 2 fish, both large-mouth bass, in a stock tank on the ranch), swim, kayak, and go 4-wheeling. We've done the Memorial Day thing a few years in a row, and now that I'm getting into kayaking, I hope we don't wear out our welcome with the Rivas family too badly.
Top photo: my LandRover properly loaded with hulls, in front of the Rivas house in Spring Branch (notice the huge front yard - and Karl gets to mow it!). The yellow kayak (the "big banana") is mine, and I brought it down from Dallas to run the Guadalupe. One of Karl's neighbors has a couple of sit-on-top kayaks that we borrowed as well. Saturday morning we took all of both families and rafted down river, and in the afternoon, Karl and I took the big kids kayaking. I rode in the banana, Karl took one of the SOTs, and Gina and Justin took the other. Sunday morning, I managed to get another ride in solo.
Bottom photo: Ellen on Red at the ranch in Lometa. This is basically in the side yard of the "new" ranch house; the original ranch house is still on the property and one of the ranch hands lives there, but the "new house" is a great place, really built for entertaining, with some great views.
In early May, we traveled to Belton, Texas where our goddaughter Rachel Booth celebrated her first communion. Rachel's father Bill Booth is a high-school friend of AM's. Then, over Memorial Day weekend, we went to San Antonio and Lampasas to visit our friends Karl and Julie Rivas and their boys Justin and Paul. We stayed with them at their house north of San Antonio (in Spring Branch) and rafted/kayaked the Guadalupe for a couple of days, then went to Julie's family ranch near Lampasas to ride horses, fish (that's where Gina caught her first 2 fish, both large-mouth bass, in a stock tank on the ranch), swim, kayak, and go 4-wheeling. We've done the Memorial Day thing a few years in a row, and now that I'm getting into kayaking, I hope we don't wear out our welcome with the Rivas family too badly.
Top photo: my LandRover properly loaded with hulls, in front of the Rivas house in Spring Branch (notice the huge front yard - and Karl gets to mow it!). The yellow kayak (the "big banana") is mine, and I brought it down from Dallas to run the Guadalupe. One of Karl's neighbors has a couple of sit-on-top kayaks that we borrowed as well. Saturday morning we took all of both families and rafted down river, and in the afternoon, Karl and I took the big kids kayaking. I rode in the banana, Karl took one of the SOTs, and Gina and Justin took the other. Sunday morning, I managed to get another ride in solo.
Bottom photo: Ellen on Red at the ranch in Lometa. This is basically in the side yard of the "new" ranch house; the original ranch house is still on the property and one of the ranch hands lives there, but the "new house" is a great place, really built for entertaining, with some great views.
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