New Braunfels and Gruene, Texas

Last night their was a huge thunder and lightning storm.  I love storms and it was even louder in the RV.  This morning we bought some rafts (at Walmart) and headed to Landa Park to float down the Comal River.  This is the thing to do in this little German town.  On the river there are chutes for your intertube to go through.  It's kinda like water slides along the river.  It was a lot of fun.  We floated for an hour and a half and then walked back up to the part with the chute and did it 4 or 5 more times.  I took pictures but with a waterproof non-digital camera so I can't post them.  After we finished being drowned rats we got back in the RV and headed to Gruene.  This was such a quaint European looking town.  We really liked it!  We went to the famous Gristmill River Restaurant which is located in the ruins of the 129 year old cotton gin on the banks of the Guadalupe River.  It is a very unique and beautiful restaurant with it's many decks nestled in the trees overlooking the river.   We sat outside on one of the decks and we were really enjoying the view, but unfortunately some other wildlife was enjoying it too.  First, Peyton let me know of a lurking cat nearby.  Everyone that knows me well knows that I am afraid of cats, kittens or anything that resembles a cat or kitten (My biggest nightmare would be stuck in a room, house or country alone with multiple cats).  The sad thing is the kids know how bad my fear is and are always on the lookout for the vicious, four legged beasts.  Well, that's not what made us move from the deck, it was another little pest "the bee."  It is funny how such a small little insect can cause so much fear in my normally tough children.  The bee liked their soda and decided to take a seat on the lid.  The bee would sit and the boys would get up and flee.  After a few times of this repeated, commotion we decided to move inside.  The view from the huge wood shutters was just as impressive.   After dinner we were leaving the restaurant and saw the biggest truck ever.  The question is why?  But this is Texas and they say everything is BIG in TEXAS.  We left Gruene and drove to Austin and are in a campground.  There is a huge tornado watch in the neighboring communities.  We will let you know if we see any effects of the tornado in the morn.

Additional pics

The one hard thing in the blog is posting pics.  They are hard to drop in and if I put to many they start deleting themselves.  So I wanted to post a few more from yesterday.