Last night, as we all snuggled up surrounded by the dogs, I was so grateful to be home - and to know we don't have to travel again for a LONG time! Dave's wedding and reception were both a blast, but we're exhausted and have a list a mile long of things we'd like to get accomplished here on the farm before snow fall.

We arrived in San Antonio, TX on Thursday afternoon, and Geogia was pretty good for her first plane ride. The biggest problem was that our seats were all in different parts of the plane, so we had to stake out the two next to hers and then try to get people to switch with us. It worked for all four of our filights, but next time we all fly somewhere I'm going to try to arrange to have our seats together beforehand. We stayed in a gorgeous hotel right on the riverwalk, and once we un-packed we met up with Dave, Karen, and everyone else who was in town to go to El Siete Mares, a local mexican seafood place outside of the city that had awesome fish, says E. He had a whole red snapper....he's still talking about how good it was. :)

The next day we explored the Riverwalk - what a beautiful place. It was definitely more impressive then I had imagined. It's a bit surreal though, since down in the Riverwalk it's lush, tropical, full of busy restaurants, and tourists, and then up on street level the rest of downtown San Antonio is pretty worse for wear. The class/racial differences are astounding. A chocolate covered apple and a trip to the pharmacy for diapers later, we met up with everyone and headed over to the San Antonio zoo...it was nice, under a lot of construction, but it was cool to see the different types of animals you can keep when the weather is temperate all year round - LOTS of rhinos, I think the most we've ever seen in one place! I used the opportunity to practice with my camera - I'm slowly getting the hang of it, though we realized when we got back that the lowest quality setting turns out grainy in many pics, so I'll be changing that setting...it's not worth it for 20 extra pictures.We had planned to go to Seaworld, but they were closed on weekdays, which is how we ended up at the zoo.

Dinner was at Boudro's, a bistro near the hotel where they had great garlic mashed potatoes, and delicious made-at-the-table guac. Before dinner we went to Penner's, which was probably the highlight of the trip. E wears guayaberas to work whenever he isn't in court, and his, originally his grandfather's, are shwoign their age. Dave and Karen had gone to Penner's for guyaberas for their wedding, and Dave had been talking itup ever since. It was great - we walked in and there were guayaberas in every style, size, and color. The little boy ones made me wish I had a little boy to wear one - so tiny! E came home with two nice new ones, as did Dave and Nick. 

Saturday was the reception at Karen's uncle's house on base - a Texas BBQ. It was nice to see everyone again, and Dave's sister Sarah was able to come down for it too. The whole thing waqs very liad back, and afterwards we met up with everyone on the Riverwalk, ate at a cool vegetarian/Tex Mex place, and went to the Amy's there - I guess the first one is in Austin, and that's where Karen always went for ice cream. A few hours of sleep and it was back on the place to come home.

Everyone fared well while we were away, and by Sunday night we had retrieved Harri and the goats so things are slowly returning to normal. Lots of eggs to wash, lots of leaves to rake (once it dries out around here), and lots of sleep to catch up on. :)