God: The blessing of a vacation

God:  Mat and I went on a mini vacation - he called it the "Epic Family Weekend Trip to Fredericksburg" which got me really pumped up about it :)  We drove up to Enchanted Rock on a Thursday evening and stayed until Sunday.  This was probably the HOTTEST weekend in Texas that we have had all summer - Every day was at least 100 degrees or more.  So why would we do something insane like go hiking in 100 degree weather??? Well....because it was the only weekend we could go and we didn't expect it to be this hot!! YIKES! 

 This is my most favorite part of Enchanted rock.  I absolutely love lakes near mountains and this is one of the prettiest sites at the park.  I know its not a mountain and its not much bigger than a pond, but it works :)

 We had some wonderful visitors while we were at the campsite too.  These deer came by quite a few times and the squirrels came to hang out too.  We didn't see many animals while hiking...we saw them all at our campsite!

 I wore my Vibram toe shoes for the hike on Friday which was exhausting.  We went about 8 miles total and by the end of it, i had some really bad blisters from rocks getting stuck in my shoes!

 Mat and I about to start our hike on day one!

 A map of the park - you can see two distinct large circles - we looped around the one on the right in the morning (it circled the little brown circles too) and then the other brown circle in the afternoon.

 This is my favorite rock in the whole park! It is being weathered down every year and we have pictures of it from the last time we were in the park in 2008 so i'm going to compare them!

 Feeding the squirrels, they loved me and Mat really enjoys playing with them lol

I want to add a picture of him from 2008 later.

 I wish i got that tan! Most of that is dirt!!

 Sitting on top of Enchanted rock!

 Someone cut this out of the cactus!

And sadly, I did not want to leave....this is me pouting because we were about to get in the car to drive back to Houston :(  vacations fly by so fast but it was wonderful being able to see God's marvelous creations!  What a blessing to be able to even take a vacation!!  I will post more pictures from Saturday too which includes peach picking and wine tasting with Mat's parents!