I mentioned in the last post that I will be moving soon and Walker will be going even sooner. Over the weekend I suggested we visit the farmer’s market together just in case it’s our last time. I bought a whole bunch of goodies to support my favorite farmer’s one last time. It’s sad to be leaving my very comfortable, friendly market. I know there will be other farmer’s markets but when you come so often you get hugs from the vendors that’s saying something. I will miss that and I like to think they will miss me too.
Like I mentioned in the last post Walker and I plus friends went camping over the weekend. Our friends joined up Friday night and it was a hoot watching them try to put up the tent in the dark. It was nice having our friends come out so I could have more people to take pictures of me jumping. It looks so silly but I was having such a fun time doing it. Even my roommate joined in!
Saturday was jam packed with activity. We took a hike to Gorman falls. It’s so beautiful, seriously. While the weather was quite perfect it wasn’t so warm that the water felt refreshing mostly just really cold. Last time we were there it was over 100 degrees and as sunny as could be so the dip felt like heaven. This time I got in just because we had hiked the whole way and there was no way I wasn’t getting in.
We had lunch and then rested while more friends arrived. In the afternoon we went back to the lagoon area and followed the little ponds, streams, and waterfalls as far as we could. We were rewarded kindly with a somewhat larger and beautiful waterfall. But of course we had to hike back through the slippery water (most parts were not deep enough to swim in). By this time we were all ready to start a fire, eat dinner, play some charades, make smores, and head to bed.
The next day we packed up and took one more trip to the lagoon (for me, everyone else went on a hike while I read and relaxed) before heading back to reality.
This weekend we went camping at Colorado Bend State Park a couple hours outside of Austin. The last time we went camping here was 2 years ago for Walker’s birthday (late June) and it was so, so hot. This time however we had lots of rain and it’s May vs June so the weather was perfect! We thought more rain was coming on Friday but we lucked out and instead had the most perfect weather weekend we could have asked for.
Walker and I got there early before all of our friends so we had some time to explore just the two of us. We found a frog with a heart on it’s head! Ah so cute! We took the short walk to the lagoon area (series of ponds and waterfalls that descend into a deeper pond area). We started at the larger pond and swan, walked, crawled up a few more before heading back down and back to camp.
Now that we were wet a fire sounded like a good idea. It took longer than usual since the wood was a bit damp but Walker got it going and we sat around and tended to the fire while we waited for the rest of our group to arrive.
