Mini Hill Country Tour

This past weekend, one of Robert's Army buddies came to visit us for the weekend. We gave him a fairly thorough tour of San Antonio and the surrounding Hill Country. On Friday, Robert and Bo went to a couple of missions on the Mission Trail, and I met them for lunch at Rosario's, our favorite local Tex Mex restaurant. After lunch they went to Natural Bridge Caverns, and we grilled fajitas at home for dinner.

Saturday, we left early for Johnson City to tour the LBJ Ranch. We started with his boyhood home in town where we got to see what a Presidential outhouse looks like before driving out to the actual ranch. The country was lovely, and we could see why he spent so much time there.

We were all starving by this point, so we drove into Fredericksburg for lunch and more sightseeing. Our usual place was closed for renovations, and we had a pretty terrible lunch at the Rathskeller - Yelp let me down! We had plenty of room for dessert at Rather Sweet Bakery, and the chocolate tart, key lime pie and peanut butter brownie filled us up (and gave Claire a serious sugar rush - she would not sit still for a photo).

Robert, Bo and Claire visited the National Museum of the Pacific War, which is really impressive, while I got a chance to do some shopping. We've been to Fredericksburg a few times, so I thought I knew what was in each shop, but I was happy to find a new one, Red, that carries a lot of different, interesting things, as well as an incredible fabric selection in a store I'd breezed by several times (they carried modern fabrics by Amy Butler, Heather Bailey, etc. that I love and are hard to find in San Antonio/Austin). After my shopping, I met them back at the museum, and we all walked over to the outdoor portion of the museum where they have some large equipment and where they sometimes stage WWII reenactments.

On our way home to San Antonio, we stopped in Boerne for dinner at another of our favorite area restaurants, The Dodging Duck. I was wiped out from the day and called it a night after we got Claire to bed, but Robert and Bo ended the evening at the Tejas Rodeo.

Sunday we kept things low key and were able to fit in a trip to Gruene and lunch at The Grist Mill before Bo headed back to Cincinnati. We all had a great time and are glad he was able to come spend the weekend with us!