We were getting bored of Denton, and the missus had just completed another school year so we decided to go out of town for a while. After some discussion we decided to go to Blanco State Park.

Blanco SP seemed to consist mainly a camping area and of two a sections of the Blanco River that was dammed off on both ends. Not much to it really.

So we get there Monday afternoon and set up the tent. We were a little rusty on this one as the last time we set it up was during our Grand Canyon trip two summers ago. We got pretty good at it too, but like I said, it had been a while. We swam some in the afternoon and cooked some steaks on the grill for dinner and just chilled.

The next morning we got up & took showers(the showers/br facilities were actually decent) and ate breakfast. Omlets & bacon. Yummm...the missus is good at that. Then we went to the park office and checked out a couple of inner tubes. Only $5 each and they were nice - handles and everything. So we took them to the upriver portion of the river(right by the 1st dam) and got in. Strange thing; we actualy started floating TOWARDS the dam that the water had just flowed off of. Not much of a current but it was there and we had to paddle against it. After about a hundred yards or so we decided that it wasn't working so we bagged it and got out. On a hunch, we got tried again down stream at the second dam after lunch and guess what? We floated up-stream quite nicely. Go figure. We had hamburgers & hotdogs for dinner.

The next morning we left dodge. I thought that the whole camp thing was rather boring as you probably can tell.

We then went to San Antonio and saw The Alamo. We will always remember it;-) This is the second time that we've been to it and it never ceases to amaze me how small it is. Not much to it really. A medium-sized room with some small ones, a couple of which are arranged as shrines. A good-sized gift shop though. We got a few pics while we were there that I'll post later.

After spending an hours at the Alamo we did a session at the LDS San Antonio Temple. It is a very nice & beautiful temple. A very well designed & constructed 'smaller' temple that the Church builds in addition to the larger ones.

Then we went and visited the missus' sister(K) at Heart O' the Hills Summer Camp for Girls where she is a counselor. K seemed deleriously happy to be there for which we were glad. K is head of the art program there.

Then we made the looooong drive home, courtesy of yours truely. Lots and lots of diet mountain dew. Lots of stops for urination purposes. We stopped once for dinner. Anhyhow, we finaly pulled into Denton around 3am Thursday morning. Its over. Yay.