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.

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

Hill Country Sights: Guadalupe River State Park

On Saturday, we went to Guadalupe River State Park, about 30 minutes from Boerne. We sat our chairs in the river and just drank beer and stared at the amazing cliff walls and water running by and kiddos jumping off the rocks. It was so relaxing and fun. I wish every day was Saturday.

Home Sweet Home

This is our home-away-from-home right now. It's so stinkin' cute. It has a full kitchen and bathroom (shower, no tub), a full-sized bed in the back bedroom, a couch that converts to a bed that could sleep two, but really only one comfortably. Same thing for the dining table. We've got internets (obvi) and a little tv with our Roku set up, so we can get Netflix (phew!). We're bringing our grill down next time we go back to East Texas, so that will add more usefulness to the outdoor living space. 

No matter what, how can you complain when this is the view you look out at?!