Today is Friday, the 21st of December.  We arrived in San Antonio last Thursday, the Thursday, December 13.  We took Saturday and acted like a couple tourist.  This photo was taken at "The Japanese Garden" which is a garden created by Japanese families in an old quarry in San Antonio.  These people were "relocated" during WWII, even though they had sons serving in the US Army.

This shot is also inside the Japanese Gardens.  We were quite fascinated by the florals and the stone work.

This is a shot of a large canopy that overlooks the Japanese Gardens.  It was probably a hundred feet across.  There was a bit of serious engineering involved here.

This shot is of a Mesquite Tree outside the San Jose Mission on the North side of San Antonio.  It grows along the ground.  Nature is really a very fascinating adventure.

We played a round of golf (I played and Kay kept the score and drove the cart) at a course in San Antonio called The Quarry. The back nine was built in an abandoned quarry and presented some beautiful sceenery,along with some fantastic golf holes.  This hole is called "Reload".  it takes a drivde to clear 175 yard raveene, with what seems like a postage stamp sized landing zone.  If you miss, you don't even look for the ball.  You just reload.

There were a dozen turtles on the rocks in a Quarry hole, as Kay was sneaking up to shoot this photo.  As you will note, if you look closely, most of them decided to be camera shy.

We took a boat tour on The River Walk in the heart of San Antonio.  The place is full of history.  We realized we failed to get a picture of The Alamo.  For some reason, it seems out of place in the middle of San Antonio,completely surrounded by Commerce.  We are going to go back down town this afternoon and see an IMax Theater movie on the Alamo.

December 14, 2012

And here you have Katie Caddie Cart Driver at hole #7 along the Colorado River at Pine Forest Golf Course in Bastrop, TX.

This would be hole #11 at the same golf course.  You have to hit the ball about 185 yards to get it over the deep ravine and hit that tan spot. (And it has to go straight or it's lost forever.)  Kim did it the first time he tried.  We were so excited.  The ravine is very deep and filled with water.  No chasing lost balls there.

We left Bastrop yesterday and made it all the way to San Antonio, 84 miles further south.  We found a most amazing golf course in Bastrop.  Five holes run along the Colorado River (of which we are told not to get in because it is the home to poisonous snakes.)  The other holes are in the hills and over the canyons.  A couple of photos above.

December 4, 2012

The locals tell us that the weather is unseasonably warm in North Texas.  That has been just fine with us.  83 degrees on December 2 was just fine. 

We have moved to Bastrop, Texas.  We may be here a week or a month, probably more like a week.  It's a nice spot though.  Quiet with open areas around us.  In Arlington, we were less than a mile from Costco, Target, Best Buy, and a huge mall.  We just left there yesterday, so no pictures yet of Bastrop.

Dallas Temple.  Kim's cousin's son, David Shumway greeted us at the door the second time we went to the temple.

Kim's golf instructor at Lake Arlington Golf Course.  I wish you could see thed blue around this roadrunner's eyes.  This was about the best pose he gave us. 

On the dock at Lake Arlington.  There are lots of lakes around the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Sunday dinner, December 2, 2012 at Treetop RV Park, Arlington, TX.