Christmas in Texas

We parked in Stonewall Texas the week of Christmas.  That is between Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas.  Sarah flew in from Denver to spend the week with us.  Our decoration was a small Christmas tree we placed on the dash of the motorhome.

Our little Christmas tree with hand made decorations from the grandkids!

Monday we had lunch at the Salt Lick BBQ.   http://www.saltlickbbq.com/pages/About.html

Stopped in Luckenbach TX on the way home from the airport. http://www.luckenbachtexas.com/

And found the Gold Peach Orchards where we had peach pie with peach ice cream!   http://www.texaspeaches.com/gold/Default.htm

Tuesday we drove to San Antonio to visit the Alamo. http://www.thealamo.org/

Ate lunch at the Original Mexican Restaurant on the Riverwalk.  http://originalmexican.com/

We stopped in Medina TX Love Creek Orchard’s Apple Store for apple strudel topped with apple ice cream!  http://www.lovecreekorchards.com/apple-store/  Yes, this is a good area for farming!

Wednesday we spent in the Fredericksburg main street shops.  We now own earrings from The Texas Silver Rush.   http://www.texassilverrush.com/

Sarah & I got new earrings from the Texas Silver Rush shop!

Took a tour of many winery’s along Highway 290.  http://www.wineroad290.com/  That evening we drove to Johnson City to see the many Christmas lights in that town. http://www.johnsoncity-texas.com/festivals/lights_spectacular.html

Lights in Johnson City, Texas!

Christmas Day we Skyped with Stephanie and Daniel then attended the pot luck lunch at the campground rec hall.  Then went to see the movie UNBROKEN.  Wow, what a well done film!  http://www.pluggedin.com/movies/intheaters/unbroken.aspx

Skyping with Stepanie & Daniel Christmas Day!

Friday we spent time in Austin before Sarah flew home.  We drove around downtown to see the Texas Capital, University of Texas campus and the visitor center.

Also found the Whole Foods flagship store. http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/lamar

We ate lunch at “The Picnic” food truck location.  There was also a group from a family reunion at the lunch location.  There were 120 in the family, all ages, all wearing the same t-shirt!  They even helped us sing Happy Birthday to Terry!

Wow, we crammed many activities into 5 days!  We are now headed to Livingston TX, near Houston for the rest of the winter.  We are volunteering at the Escapees Care Center during the month of January.  http://escapeescare.org/