Since we didn't go anywhere for Spring Break we decided to go hiking on the first weekend of April. We left Friday morning for Inks lake and Sam drove since I had worked all night. The drive there was nice and relaxed. I took the first picture of my wife right before we went into the park.
Everything was green except for the red rocks and the beautiful flowers growing everywhere. The weather was perfect for hiking. It was cool and a little overcast. We thought it was maybe too cool for this time of year, but then we always expect a cool front moving in to our area a few days before Easter.
Our hiking group, Lt. to Rt.- Me, Dora, Sam and Elfida. The day before we left my wife stayed up so she could finish the Easter eggs she was coloring for the grand kids. She left the eggs on the kitchen counters so that Sunday they could have an egg hunt in our backyard. The clover had grown nice and tall, just perfect for hiding eggs.
We hiked for about four hours and finally made it to the falls. We had stopped and eaten some turkey sandwiches earlier. By now we were hiking but resting pretty often. Our feet were hurting but there was so much to see. Before we knew it, it was six in the afternoon and we still needed to get to Austin where we were going to find a nice restaurant and enjoy a good dinner. We never made it to Austin. While driving through Cedar Park we saw a Goodwill store and decided to go in a see what they had. We spent about an hour there and by the time we got out we were too hungry to drive to Austin. We found a nice hotel, got a room and drove back to a Chili's we had seen a few blocks from the Goodwill. We had a nice dinner. OK, as hungry as we were, even a McDonald's would have been good. When we got out of Chili's it was about 50 degrees outside. The weather guy on TV said that we might get some snow mixed in with the rain the next day. On Saturday we left Cedar Park and stopped at the outlet mall noticing that it was getting colder. We were about a half hour out of Waco when Sam's daughter called him and said it was snowing north of Waco. We had just pulled into our driveway when the snow started to come down in our side of town.
It was light snow at first but the flakes kept getting bigger and bigger. This was so out of the ordinary for our part of the world. Snow in April??
We unloaded quickly. OK, they unloaded quickly while I took pictures. My son and his family arrived while we were still outside. They had come by to drop off Lily. They were on there way to Dallas to go see the Texas Rangers play ball. Isabelle ran straight to her swing set and made the first foot prints in the snow.
This was Lily's first snow. She was very leery about walking on the white stuff. She would just stand and look at her feet. Elfida had to walk with her. Later on she kept wanting to go outside and walk on it to see here foot prints. Every time I went out to get firewood she would grab her wool cap. A signal that she also wanted to go out.
We took a family picture just before Maiko and family, minus Lily, left for Dallas. Needless to say our Easter egg hunt was postponed until next week when the yard drys out. We left the patio curtains open so we could see the backyard cover in snow. The view from the stairwell was also beautiful. We watched TV as Lily played on the floor in front of the fireplace. Dora and Sam came by for dinner. Elfida made "caldo" which is the perfect dinner for a snowy evening.
It was a great weekend. We hiked, shopped, ate out, played in the snow, enjoyed the fireplace and babysat our grand daughter!!!We have never had a White Christmas, but now we can say we had a White Easter!
