So this year we decided to take a vacation instead of doing a stay-cation for Spring Break. I don't think we have ever done a real trip before. Since we know the kids and I wanted to end up in San Antonio for part of the week, we scheduled a little trip down to Fredericksburg for a few nights. It was such a great little town and the kids REALLY enjoyed our first adventurers going to some of the state parks.
First on the list was Enchanted Rock! We figured the boys would love it but I was pleasantly surprised that Hayden thought it was pretty cool too! We climbed up the rock and probably crawled in every nook and cranny on our trip around the bottom. My favorite is that once we reached the top Cal thought it would be a great idea to climb down the side of the rock...you know, the side that is EXTREMELY steep and most normal people don't allow their children to climb down. Especially when most normal people don't forget their daughter's tennis shoes and allow her to climb a slick rock wearing Converse!!!!! We made it. Me with a partial heart-attack and Cal saying, "I told you it would be fine." Minus that little experience the day was fantastic and we spent much longer than I had anticipated there. . The only reason we made it back around the front was because we were all starving after leaving our lunch in the car. After we all refueled the boys climbed Little Rock, the rock next to Enchanted Rock, while Hayden and I played in the stream. We met back up after their exploring and ended the day with all 3 kids wet and worn out!
The following day we visited downtown Fredericksburg and walked the streets. The boys found a magic shop and learned a few tricks and each bought something "magic". Hayden fell in love with some butterfly wings at a toy store and spent most of the trip coloring them to make them perfect. Cal and I decided we would need an adult weekend to fully enjoy all that the shops had to offer :)
After two days in Fredericksburg we loaded up and headed back to Johnson City. We visited the children's museum there and on Monday made our way to Pedernales Falls. The falls were so beautiful and brought back some fun memories for Cal and I of our vet school days. You aren't allowed to swim at the falls which was a bummer, so we sweated it out for awhile letting the kids jump from rock to rock and explore. We even found a little cave that the kids thought was pretty fun. Then we needed water! Hayden has been asking to swim for the last 4 months so she was super excited when we made our way to the swimming hole...only the "swimming hole" turned out to be the river which was less than ideal for a 5 year old that can't swim! Oh, and the water was FREEZING! The kids didn't seem to mind and the boys and Cal had the great idea to swim across the river to a tree rope on the opposite side. That was another heart-attach moment seeing as the water was up and Bryant isn't the best swimmer but they all made it there and back and loved playing on the swing. We found some baby frogs to play with and of course captured a few pics before we were all ready to hit the road and find food and our next destination.
Cal had to head back home for work but the kids and I finished our break in San Antonio. A few days to enjoy a little time on the ranch and a daily Margarita (for me anyway) finished out a fun week.
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