Well, we're back from the dude ranch! We arrived back home around 1:15am yesterday, and spent the day recovering from the super long drive. It was frustrating because it took us forever just to get out of San Antonio and headed up I-35 because of an accident right at the intersection of I-35 and Loop 1604. Ugh! Basically took us 11 1/2 hours to get home. The kids did pretty well, although they really weren't thrilled about being confined to the carseats for so long...and when they did go to bed...they really just wanted to be in their cribs. We managed, though, and we are safely home, thank the Lord!
Dixie Dude was lots of fun again this year. Although we were missing a lot of the extended family, we really enjoyed being with Aaron's parents and brothers and uncle. We all met at Mamacita's in San Antonio for lunch on Thursday, and got to the ranch in Bandera around 4pm. Alec and Emma had lots of opportunities to roam around the grounds in the yard and the rocks and the dirt and dust. They got to swim a lot, play on the playground, eat lots of amazing food, see a buffalo and a trick roper, take a hay ride to a cowboy breakfast, and play with their cousin, uncles and g'ma and g'pa and great uncle.
The only unfortunate incident was early on Friday after breakfast, when Emma walked up to a table outside and reached out for a red wasp. As she was walking toward the table, it occured to me that there could be a nest or bugs under there, and so I went after her, but it was already too late. She grabbed for it, and I hurled her out of the way to get away from the nest and started trying to shoo the darn thing away, but it had already stung her finger. Her middle finger and right hand were pretty swollen, and after lots of hugs and kisses, treating it with Clorox (chlorine takes the sting out), some topical hydrocortisone, some Motrin and sending Daddy and G'pa to the pharmacy for some children's Benadryl, Emma was all better. Hopefully, we are through with stings for the year (remember that Alec got stung by the ginormous bumble bee at church a few months ago).
Other than that, we had a fabulous time, and enjoyed being with family. I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story! Here's the link to the Facebook album:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=86397&id=543072123&l=d5aafeb0c3
And by the way...for those of you who do a double take and a "huh?!" everytime we say we're going to a dude ranch, the Today Show was scheduled to do a feature story on Dixie Dude Ranch as part of a series on the best vacation spots in the USA. Unfortunately, due to the swine flu outbreaks in several different areas of the nation, this series was cancelled (I'm hoping just postponed, because I really want to see the feature!!!)
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