The Great Escape

. . . from the children, that is. For our anniversary, Randi very kindly offered to watch our kids for FOUR days so that Jon and I could get away. So, we dropped them at her house in Temple and gleefully ran away to Austin for a long weekend.

We had a great time. Thursday night, we decided to take a Segway tour of downtown Austin. If you have no clue what a Segway is, you really need to watch THIS (It's about the 1:15 mark, but your life will not be complete unless you watch the whole thing). And, yes, we totally felt "white and nerdy." :-) But it was an absolute blast! Here's a few pics and a couple videos of our mad Segway skills.

Friday we decided to head down to New Braunfels and float the Comal River. It was awesome! The water was a balmy (and by balmy I mean COLD) 70 degrees, which was perfect on a hot day. We floated for a couple hours, got really sunburned (we're STILL peeling two weeks later!) and just relaxed. No pics though because I kinda like my camera and didn't want to ruin it.

Saturday was our relaxing day. We saw a movie. And took a nap. And hiked a grueling five minutes the "highest" point in Austin - Mt. Bonnell coming in at a whopping 785 feet. And got a yummy dinner (mmm, steak) followed by even yummier cheesecake. And relaxed some more.


Sunday we basically slept in and headed back up to Temple to go to church with the VBs. It was an awesome, and RELAXING, vacation! Thanks Rand & CJ - you guys rock!