The Girls on Spring Break 2014

The pictures I am posting are pictures that Lari is taking while they are on their Spring Vacation.  They had invited us to go on this trip with them but since we are so near in closing on our new home and the broken collar bone problems I am having we could not go.

They headed out yesterday after school and their destination is Washington D.C.  I told her to email me pictures so I could create this blog post for her and Arianna. 

This morning she emailed me the first pictures from their stay at the Gaylord Hotel in Nashville, TN.  They are excited to be on this trip.  This hotel is just beautiful!  We had an opportunity to stay at this hotel, while we were in the Nashville area a few years ago, Manuel Jr. was having a conference here and we came to visit him here. 

Lari says this picture was taken from the balcony of their room.  Lari sitting out in the balcony. 

  

Arianna as they are walking the hotel atrium. I questioned their shorts & short sleeves and they say it is in the 70’s.  Now is she like Grandma?!!  Taking pics of their food…. They are at Starz

  

Lari says, “One of the many beautiful things we have seen”.

Lari says “an awesome waterfall”.  (this is a video)  Oops!  could not download video.

I will continue to post pics as I get them.  Have an awesome time!  Love You All & Miss You All!

More of Nashville, Tennessee.  Downtown Nashville checking out the sights.  Lari and Ari pose in front of this huge yellow guitar.  Lari by the red guitar…

  

Lari says, “This water fall reminds me of the one at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.”

There is a boat ride that takes you all along the Gaylord Hotel.  A huge fountain.

  

A Book Wagon they saw along their walk.

More of our walk….                                   Now we are ready for the show at the Grand Ole Opry!!

  

More to come!

WWW Rally In San Marcos

Janet Lambe was nice enough to arrange for a rally to be scheduled in San Marcos so it would be easier for us to attend.  Thank You, Janet. We had 7 coaches attend:  Lambe, Esparza, Bechard, P. Roberts, Goodlett, Mason and Pettigrew.

We traveled about 50 miles from Lackland FamCamp on Sunday and will stay until the following Sunday. 

Our first stop!  This is about 10 miles from the campground.  We had lunch here. 

On The Road Again!!!

We reached our destination at about noon.  The Bechards were the first ones here.

This was a very easy going rally.  We just visited a lot. 

G.I. Phil!  Love your hat, Sir!!!

Janet had a car load of STUFF she made, so she had a trunk sale!  Oh, did we have fun here!  Manuel and I bought Stuff as he calls it!  Awesome crochet things…..   Everyone else also bought stuff.  Thank you, Janet.

I think it was on Wednesday, we had a call from Mark Didelot.  He was camping in New Braunfels with Friends, Steve and Sandy Algier.  They are from Washington State but leave every winter for warmer weather.  They mostly stay in the Arizona area but have been here to Texas twice since we have known them.  We met them in Quartzite in 2009, I think.  We visited with them for a while one afternoon and it was really nice to see them and The Didelots.  Mark, Thank you for calling us!

Much of our time was spent in the rally room watching Janet crochet…..

Janet B., Sharon and Margaret also crocheted. 

Manuel organized a breakfast cookout for one of the mornings.  He and Joe cooked and everyone brought something.

Joe is a Happy Camper cooking on his new cook top.

One day after breakfast, The Roberts, Lambe, and Esparzas made a trip to The San Antonio Shoe Factory.

Everyone did their shopping…

There she is….at the ice cream stand!!!

Phil takes my picture.

The next batch of pictures will bring back memories to many.  Enjoy the collection of autos here at the factory.

I remember seeing one of these ‘57 Chevy in Ed Reed’s garage!!  Beautiful!

Pettigrew’s Market  (Allen & Margaret???)

We sit out to enjoy our ice cream!  Yummy!!!

Boy!  They are really into their ice cream!!!

Okay, time to go have lunch.

We made a stop at Los Valles Mexican Restaurant. 

Phil treated us all for lunch!  Great food with Great Friends.  Thank you, Phil!

We had live entertainment…..

We met several times for dinner but I stopped carrying my camera because my shoulder/arm was killing me with pain.  I over did it taking the pictures above….NO MORE PICS! Sorry!

Manuel took these pics going to dinner at Centerpoint Station.  Great Dinner!

More fun at the rally…

Phil had offered to take pictures but I failed to bring camera, otherwise I know he would have taken great pictures as always. 

On Saturday, Janet B. was feeling awful with nausea and vomiting and quarantined herself in her coach.  Manuel was also feeling sick with fever and chills so he stayed in most of the day, too.  Saturday night, he started with vomiting and nausea, too and we both got very little sleep.

On Sunday morning, at 6 am, we decided to leave the park and head back to Lackland FamCamp.  We are sorry we did not get to say good-bye to everyone. 

We had a great Rally, Again!  Thank you for making it to San Marcos.

Until next time!