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Friday, April 24, 2009

Llano Trip

Last weekend we went to Llano to visit my family. My cousin Travis and his wife Meghan flew in from Salt Lake City (no they're not Mormon), my Grandma came in from Spearman and Mat and Jaime came too.

Patty and Terry treated us to a real Hill Country weekend -we ate and played with the locals and gave Travis and Meghan the grand tour of "that part of the country". We had a really great time and Vin was a little showoff which is a side of him we've never seen before.

Llano Crawfish Festival - Teri, Travis and Meghan were so excited about the crawfish while the rest of us just drank beer for lunch. This is an annual town event and they had a washer pitching contest which Mat and Terry entered. They did pretty well considering that Mat hadn't pitched a washer in almost 12 years!




Look at how content Teri is.













Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Que - Coopers is a Llano institution and people travel from miles around to get their fill of m-e-a-t. The line was 30 minutes long and when you get in you eat on butcher paper at a picnic table. Good stuff!
Patty has a picture of Vin gnawing on a rib bone that I'll post soon.






Party on the patio - Patty has updated her patio with new chairs and cushions. We enjoyed relaxing out here while Terry Butt cooked out on the grill. On Saturday night we had bacon wrapped jalapenos and bacon wrapped shrimp. Can you tell we didn't go hungry on this trip.









Silvercreek Beer Garden in Fredricksburg - this is another local hang out with a large local beer selection and a wonderful patio.

Vin's First Horse Ride - Some kids might start off on a pony but not Vin. His Grumps saddled up Pecos and took him for a ride. Vin loved every minute of it!




2 comments:

Wendy P said...

Looks like a wonderful time! (Patty - the porch looks gorgeous!)

Cassie Butt Beckwith said...

Awww, I am so jealous. It looks like you all had a lot of fun. Next time maybe it will be Grumps, Sallie Rose and Vin on a horse.