After Ike

I know many of you won't read this post for a while but I thought I would let everyone know what is going on with us. We rode out Ike (not a pleasant evening) and were able to clean up most of our yard the next day or so. I will post pictures of our yard, before and after, when we return home and have internet access. It was a mess and I have a call in to our tree guy as we have some large branches hanging up in our sweet gum tree. Over all, though, we were lucky.

We left town on Sunday to come up to Canyon Lake. There was lots of traffic going into Houston and we saw lots of ambulances and buses headed that way. We just decided to not be miserable when we could come up here and live fairly normal lives. There is dial up internet access here so Shane can work (although slowly) and Jacob and I are trying to keep ourselves busy. Our neighbors are watching the cats and we brought the dogs with us...they love the property here. The deer are out now and I am watching them while I am typing. Shane and Jacob are fishing at the lake.

Our power is back on at home but no cable yet; so, no TV, phones or internet access. We were going to return home Wednesday but are thinking otherwise at this point.

Yesterday we just needed to de-stress. So, we drove into San Antonio, ate on the riverwalk and took Jacob to the Alamo...something he has been asking to do for a while. We had a good time but we are anxious to return home. Jacob is bored and just wants to go home and play with his friends. I just want to take a nap...yeah, right!!! I am trying to think of things to do to entertain Jacob up here but they all seem to be things that I like to do and not him...like eating at the Peach Tree in Boerne or going to the outlet stores in San Marcos. We'll see. We may go to Austin to visit my close friend Cassie and her son Aidan, one of Jacob's best buddies.

That's all for now. Will update more when we return home.
Laura