Our Hill Country Vacaish

Well, we had our weekend away. And, boy, was it great.

It all began last Friday. We woke early in the morning and headed to Kerrville, TX for Virginia Shrader and Greg Tamplen's wedding rehearsal and dinner, which was quite an enjoyable time. The day of the wedding was disappointingly rainy, and the venue had to be changed from a beautiful outdoor amphitheater to Virginia's home church. Turned out to be a fine change, because the wedding was perfect. Jacob and I filmed this wedding, our first time working as business partners, and everything went quite smoothly on our end. It was fun getting the opportunity to work as a team. I put together a little video teaser of the pre and post wedding events:

Shrader-Tamplen Teaser from Amanda Michelle Boyd on Vimeo.

The day after the wedding we, with a few friends, moseyed on over to Fredericksburg, where we stayed in the beautiful Angels Lodge Above the Creek B&B. Ahhhhh (contented sigh). Our first day was spent with our friends Ann & Kris Harrison and their three beautiful kids, Hannah, Calla, and Elliot. We explored the shops in the downtown area before the Harrisons headed back to Dallas. Then, we enjoyed a quiet evening at the inn, seated in the outdoor common area with fellow Inn-goers, with nice conversation.

The next day we visited the lovely Silver Spoon Trailer, owned and operated by our friend Katherine Lott. We munched on a delicious lunch prepared by the aforementioned owner: tasty. So tasty, in fact, that we joined Katherine for dinner as well!

On our return trip, the following day, we stopped at Enchanted Rock and hiked to the top and around the area. It was a nice hike. We hope to go back some day to do some actual rock climbing. We also stopped in Hico, where Billy the Kid is either from or lived or died... I'm unsure, but his name is all over the place. Also, we ate at a little cafe in Llano called The Acme Cafe...we would recommend it to any Texas Hill Country traveler. Try to crab cakes.

We have photos of this stuff, but I seem to have misplaced our camera. It will turn up sometime, and I'll be sure to post some pics.

Oh! And I almost forgot! In the midst of all of this, Jacob GRADUATED COLLEGE! The graduation ceremony was the same day of Greg & Virginia's wedding, so he didn't walk the stage, but sure enough, he's done. We're just waiting on the actual diploma to arrive. Whew! No more homework or studying!