Monday, May 27, 2013

Pedernales River

Happy Memorial Day! Greatly blessed that I live in a country as amazing as The United States.

This Memorial Day was spent outdoors with great friends. Really that is how every Memorial Day should be spent. Mine definitely did not disappoint.


My alarm went off at 9:00 and then again at 9:15. To my surprise I was in the shower after the second alarm. The plan was to meet at the HEB house (the house is behind HEB) at 10:15 so we could all carpool to Pedernales Falls. We were late, obviously. But we weren't the lasts ones to arrive. After an hour and fifteen minute drive we parked at the Pedernales Falls State Park.

The Park has hiking, biking, swimming and maybe even camping. Pretty much your typical State Park. We focused on the swimming. Actually there was quite a bit of accidental hiking too. By the time I actually got into the water we had hiked up a hill and climbed a giant rock. That was my cardio for the day. Seriously though. I didn't do an additional workout today.

Our group was fourteen strong. Huey and 12 girls until Norm showed up and cut the ratio in half. The water was a little cold and very brown. I couldn't see what was in the water so it freaked me out at first. But then I remembered good'ole Lake Houston and suddenly I was fine. Lake Houston is the murky lake I grew up on when I lived with my parents. The rapids of the river were filled with these huge fish. They had sharp fins and a sword like front. For the longest time a couple of my friends tried to catch them with their bare hands, which was unsuccessful because none of my friends are Crocodile Dundee. After a couple hours and a bad sunburn we left Perdernales.

An hour later we ended up at Chuy's happy hour. A happy hour with FREE queso. That is right, FREE queso. Not half price. Not discounted. FREE. I am not sure how I didn't know this before. Genius. I went and ate only chips and queso. I was so full after. Many of my friends enjoyed the happy hour drink specials while I sat alone and sipped on my water. This is because I made the stupid decision to only drink once a week since I'm watching my calories.
I came home and napped for about ten minutes before going to work. I was stupid for agreeing to babysit on Memorial Day. I should have known I would be tired and sunburnt and miserable. So much for planning my own schedule. Sometimes I still hate going to work. I sincerely hope that changes when I figure out a logical career path. I stayed until 8:30 then thankfully went home.

Now it is 10:30 and I am in bed. My body is tired and I don't want to move. Hopefully I'll be able to turn off my computer and go right to sleep.

Memorial Day included friends, water, outdoors, hiking, free queso, sunburns, babysitting and more friends. I would like to think that out of all my 21 Memorial Days this one was one of the best.

God Bless America.

P.S. I added several things to my Summer of FUN list. I figured I still had three months left of summer so why not add a few extra adventures. In fact I will probably be adding to it more as I blog on.

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