Floatin Down the River

Every year my business fraternity alumni group plans a camping trip where we go to New Braunsfel and float down the Guadalupe River. Little factoid for all ya'll, this is where tc and I started getting to know each other and basically when we celebrate our dating anniversary!

We were so excited to go back again this year. We bought a tent, an air mattress, and all of the other camping gear we were going to need for the weekend. When we got down there on Friday afternoon our campsite was wide open, awaiting our tent. We set it up pretty easily, so we got to enjoy the rest of the evening sitting out with our friends and catching up.

a crappy picture of our tent

Saturday morning tc and I took a hike to get our tubes. When we got back we made pancakes on the grill (yum!) then got ready to get on the water. It is so nice just relaxing in the sun all day!

you have to look at this picture sideways because I am too lazy to turn it!The float trip always starts out really fun inevitably ends in disaster for me. Okay disaster is probably a huge overstatement, but I can't hang out in the water for too long. For some reason I just get so cold I get uncontrollably shaky.

Usually this ends up not being such a terrible thing because I get to enjoy the showers and campsite to myself, and I enjoy reading out in the sun and quiet. This year it was also a good thing I got out of the water early, with tc's paddling us faster to get out sooner. As soon as we got back to the campsite it started to POUR down rain and some of our fellow campers did not put their rain guards on their tents. We were able to go around and protect at least some of their possessions!

Because all of our chairs were soaking wet, with not much of a chance of being dry, we decided to pack up and head home a day early. Because of our change in plans we got to eat at the much talked about Gristmill and we got to spend the night with tc's parents, meaning we got to eat at my favorite mexican breakfast place, Jaliscos!!

It was another fantastic weekend!