Mini-Vacation!

A few months ago, when Hugh and I were in the midst of being up all night, getting sleep in 2 hour stretches, walking around like zombies, and basically just existing…we got the awesome idea to take a vacation. 

We are blessed with the fact that Hugh gets 4 weeks of vacation a year, plus holidays. PLUS: PATERNITY LEAVE! Hugh got a week of paternity leave that didn’t count against his vacation and then took two weeks of sick leave. It was awesome.

We decided to take advantage of my time off from work and get away. It wasn’t long, but it was long enough for where we are in our lives right now. We took 3 days and 2 nights and headed to the hill country. Originally we considered flying somewhere, but we didn’t want to be too far away in case anything happened with Aiden. She’s still tiny, and a handful for someone to keep.

We started off our trip by driving to Austin to eat at Franklin BBQ. This marks our 3^rd trip to eat there. It was incredible. We got there around 10:00 and had our food by 11:45. The wait wasn’t terrible for being a Thursday, but by the time we got inside the line was all the way down the parking lot. After eating a ridiculous amount of BBQ we headed out to Perdenales Falls. We spent a few hours hiking in the state park and then headed to the B&B that I booked for us in Llano. We stayed at the Walden Plantation, and I can’t recommend it enough! It was beautiful, right on the river, the rooms were great…I just can’t say enough good things about it. We spend the afternoon drinking wine and hanging out at the pool. We spent the evening drinking wine and hanging out at the hot tub. And then the fire pit. AWESOME. We slept in until 8!

After a delicious breakfast we headed out and hiked Enchanted Rock. We had tried to do this back on Spring Break when I was pregnant, but the park was too full. We were just about the only people there and we enjoyed it immensely. It felt great to do something physical and tiring. The views were cool, and it was fun to explore. After we exhausted ourselves we drove into Fredericksburg for lunch and then headed on down to San Antonio. We stayed at the Embassy Suites on the River Walk and had a great time. We had dinner on the river walk and then FINALLY saw the Batman movie at the IMAX.  Oh..and we SLEPT until 8, again!

Hugh and I had a great time. It was a much needed break for us. It’s tough work being parents, but we are blessed with an amazing support system that allowed us to take a little break.We both want to thank our parents for staying with Aiden while we were gone. Oh...and Chelsey too.