Willkommen and a morgue!

After spending most of the day in Luckenbach, we returned to Fredericksburg with a couple of hours to shop! I found the sign in "Things Remembered, Too". It is "Welcome" in German.

Marie spotted the Hen Christmas ornament in "The Fredericksburg General Store". Of course, Cackleberry Cottage must have it! Most of the shops close at 5 p.m., so we moved on to the business of deciding where to eat. We stopped at several places. The first place we entered had a 45 minute wait. We didn't think this would be a good idea with our 3 1/2 year-old Bug.

We finally ended up at a restaurant located in the basement of the old Hospital. "Der Kuchen Laden" is located above the restaurant.

We could hear music as we walked down the steps. It was acoustic guitar. We liked that. Music, but not too loud!

We had a wonderful meal of a hollowed out half of breaded and fried eggplant filled with crab and shrimp with white wine sauce and parmesan cheese. To accompany that was rice and steamed green beans. It was delicious. We had blueberry lemonade to drink. We learned that one of the dining rooms in the back had been the morgue for the hospital. I'm happy that we didn't sit in that room!

Ya'll Come Back!

Lorilee

Let's Go to Luckenbach, Texas!

Friday was the beginning of a "Girls' Weekend" for my sister-in-law, Marie, my niece, Hannah and I. Originally, it was to be my sweety and I, but he was unable to get Saturday off from work! Hannah was so excited about the trip. She stayed awake the whole drive 7 p.m. until 11 p.m.. After all that driving, she can sing along to the Mama Mia soundtrack! Here she is getting ready for bed at the motel!

On Saturday morning, we had our breakfast at Rather Sweet Bakery. Cheddar Bacon scones for the big girls and a Jailhouse Cinnamon roll for Bug.

We spent most of Saturday in Luckenbach. I attempted to clog, but I am not proficient with enough of the steps to learn the dances as quickly as they were teaching them. It was awesome to watch!

We wandered down to the creek. Much of it was dry due to the drought!

Marie, Bug and I are in front of the Old post office and store. It was overcast and cool by South Texas standards! Needless to say, Luckenbach is pretty laid back with chickens wandering around.

This cowboy showed up on the longhorn. He said it answered to "Shotgun".

The cowboy and Mom are trying to convince Bug to sit on Shotgun for a photo. She remains unconvinced that this would be a good idea! Maybe the Aggie blood from Mom and Dad makes her instinctively avoid longhorns!

Eventhough our group of cloggers is all female, there ARE men who clog---and quite well! The man on the left is Buster Green, an instructor and on the right is John Pryor another instructor. I was in awe of the wonderful dancers at the workshop! Bug was worn out from all the excitement of Luckenbach! She napped while we watched the clogging.

Ya'll Come Back Now!

Lorilee

Cardinal in glass and my day!

I attended a wonderful workshop for teachers today. The Presenter was Dr. Jean Feldman. If you ever get the chance to see her--jump on it! The gymnasium-sized room was packed with women singing and dancing to wonderful songs for teaching young children! I came home with 3 CDs and a packet of wonderful ideas for teaching my four-year-olds! Afterward, I picked my son up from school,stopped by the pharmacy, took him for a haircut, stopped at McDonald's to get him food, and then took him home. I then went grocery shopping. After unpacking the groceries, and putting a load of clothes in the washer, I ate my supper (while checking out some blogs!) Now to put the workshop packet into a notebook and start packing for the weekend trip to Fredericksburg! (Not many workshop packets are worthy of a notebook!) I may not have time to do much blogging until I return on home on Monday. I will take the laptop with me just in case! Does that make me addicted?
I bought the cardinal stained glass as a gift, but I had to take a photo of it first. I think it is beautiful!
Ya'll Come Back!
Lorilee