Hill Country Sights: Bandera

This is a post coming at you almost 6 months late! I've been reluctant to spend time uploading photos, but I finally got a little un-lazy. Way back in October 2015, we went out to Bandera, Texas with our friends Bob and Pam. Bandera, a small town northwest of San Antonio, is the self-proclaimed "Cowboy Capital of the World."

So we saw cowboys (and Bob got to play dress up with them!). Surprisingly (to me at least) there were tons of international visitors. At the cowboy show, we were practically the only people from Texas. There was a family from Sweden and a huge group of Brits, plus Americans from Arizona.



We saw some extremely classy bars...

And even snuck in a bit of culture, passing by their pretty courthouse (Bandera is the county seat of Bandera County) before eating comfort food at the Old Spanish Trail Restaurant.













Oh, and of course, there was a horse "parked" on the street with the motorcycles. Because, Texas.

It was a fun day.

2015 Year in Review: Books I Read

I didn't keep track of the months on these. I read way too few books in 2015 :-/


Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (second reading)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (second reading)

 The Second Time Around by Mary Higgins Clark (audio)

Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs (audio)

 Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs (audio)

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins*

 The Virgin's Lover by Phillipa Gregory

The Chimes by Charles Dickens (audio)

*My favorite

2015 Year in Review: Movies I Watched

January
Youth in Revolt

Boyhood

February
None

March
St. Vincent*

April
None

May
Pitch Perfect

June
None

July
None

August
None

September
None

October
Insurgent

Mockingjay: Part 1

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Far from the Madding Crowd

Woman in Gold

The Imitation Game

North & South (BBC mini-series)

Dark Places

Spy

November
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Jimmy's Hall

Get Hard

The End of the Tour

December
Mr. Holmes

The Age of Adaline

Mockingjay: Part 2

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

*My favorite

Hill Country Sights: Boerne Lake

{Boerne} has a really pretty, small {lake} that I absolutely love. There are no motor boats allowed on it so it's pretty serene. There are a lot of kayakers and people on stand-up paddle boards and folks just floating in tubes near the shore. The doggies love to go walking in the attached park. They also looooove to wade along the shore, but they don't care too much for swimming. 

Down the road from the lake is a dog-friendly, family-friendly beer garden called {Random} that has 80 beers on tap. That road is one cool place. 

Boerne Lake

Boerne Lake

Lake selfie :-)

Yummy beers at Random

August in Photos

I don't know why I don't have any pics of Nugget. She was right there along with us :-)