Wednesday we pulled into a State Park near Bellville Texas where Ryan lives. Bellville is a nice little town where you can walk the town square (and the town) in no time....so we did. I snapped a few pictures along the way.
I liked how the peak of this house looked through the trees.
And this brick house made for an interesting shot
The downtown was decorated for Christmas
We ran into this blacksmith's shop that has been here, and running, since the 1800's.
The current owner has been here for 6years. He graciously gave us a tour of both the building and his work. He still uses the original brick forge that you see in the picture as well as the purge that is used to keep the fire hot. This was the highlight of the day, a very interesting find. We hope to stop by when he has the forge fired up and is working on something.
The next day Ry and Ab joined us for some breakfast and then off for some golf. Well Ry played golf, he and David drove the 9 hole course in a cart and I pushed Abs in her stroller.
Here she is looking at Gramps and Daddy in the cart and I am sure that she is wondering.. what the heck how fair is this?
Grandpa did take a turn pushing Abs....so did Daddy.
And just a cute picture of Abigail. This little lady is a thinker, you can almost hear her wheels turning as she quietly ponders something.
When you live in Texas you really have to know how to drive a big Texas truck even if you are a girl. When daddy was taking the golf cart back Grandpa and I thought we'd give Abs an early start on it. Not to worry Ry and Jen, Grandpa was right there out of camera shot holding on to her.
Oh the wonderful things that we could teach our girls if we had them for only a week:) It was nice to get my grandma time in and we hope to get much more in in the upcoming few weeks. PS Len and Kel, it must be a grandma thing because Abs reached her arms out for me and completely stood her daddy up!
OK so here is the sad but true story. We left Bellville Friday afternoon for what should have been a short 1 1/2 hour drive to our next destination, Lake Texana State Park. Ryan gave us directions and we plugged it into our GPS. We really should have realized that something was amiss when we hit our first muddy rutty country road. But we just kept following the GPS bumping and bouncing along the muddiest damned road ever towing our 34 foot camper. Cows, we saw loads of cows and a shit load of mud. I wasn't concerned about getting stuck (foolishly) I was concerned about how the inside of our camper was going to look after being bounced for miles down the road. After about 6 miles we decided that this was too stupid and braved turning this long ass camper and truck around on the narrow mud and rut infested road that was 10 feet wide max. Had it not been for four wheel drive(and David's braveness) we would have sunk into the mud to be sure.
This is the view of the road right before sunset. That was another thing thing, the sun was setting and we were lost on that god awful country road.
We did make it to the park and are damned glad that we can sit and relax for a few weeks. You know Mikey I can just here you saying, "Only my good friend David".
Anyway it is a nice park with lots of hiking trails and wildlife galore.
These deer seem to know how to cross the bridge safely. Yup David is happy as there are lots of deer here. As well as the all too familiar-watch for poisonous snakes-signs....eeeewwwww I so do not like snakes.
The park promised alligators and by golly yes they do live here. In fact they bask in the sun on the shores of the campground anywhere they please. We will be watching the dogs closely.
We will be here until Jan 3rd and then off to perhap's Ryan's campground for a week. We are then off to Quartzite Arizona to meet up with Mikey and Jan for the rest of our trip.
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