The Road Home

On our way home from Fredericksburg, we stopped at my favorite TX city, San Antonio!

They have ducks there.

Did I mention that I love San Antonio? We had just enough time to sup at our favorite SA restaurant (although that's really hard to determine because we love so many restaurants in SA) Shilo's! We had an awesome German lunch

and Eddy basically insisted that we eat this giant cheesecake.

Then we took our Captain Duvet and headed home.

It was a great Texploration road trip!

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Fredericksbeer

When we finally made it to Fredericksburg, we focused our time on beer. We stayed at Fredericksburg Brewing Co.

They have themed rooms there and we stayed in the Admiral's quarters.

In addition to beer, Fredericksburg also has a Japanese Garden,

some interesting shopping,

and statues

all of which we chose to mock.

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Everybody's Somebody

Eddy and I decided sort of spur-of-the-moment that we needed to take a Texas style road trip.  Last time we did that was Valentine's day, 2010, so we were overdue.  On the advice of our neighbors Rod and Ruby, we decided to head out to Fredericksburg, Tx.  On the way out, we stopped at Luckenbach, TX--population 25--to gather round the wood stove at the country store/post office/bar and hear some live music.

Apparently in Luckenbach some (towns?)people ride their longhorns to the festivities.

They also have guitar parking outside of the country store.

Did you know everybody's somebody in Luckenbach, Texas?

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Runs in the Family

Remember this picture of Eddy?

Well, apparently this behavior runs in the family.

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Old Little Eddy

For Christmas, Carol digitized some of the old Westbrook slides.  There were some super cute photos of little Eddy.

I'm sure there are pictures of, like, the rest of the family, but look how cute Eddy was!

Was...

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Black Eyed Peas

This year for NYE we caught one of our favorite local artists, Matt the Electrician, at one of our favorite musty old venues, Anderson Fair.  We had some time to kill before the show, so, you know...  face making contest.

I'm thinking Eddy won. At midnight, all of the musicians came out onstage and sang Auld Lang Syne and everyone in the audience got little hats and noisemakers and black eyed peas and champagne. So cute!

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Christmas Sunshine Fuzzy Bunny

We had our own little Xmas fun when we got home this year.

Mostly it consisted of yard work made possible by the Lowes gift certificates we got from our parents for Xmas.

Please don't make me recount how terrifying it was to climb up on the roof. I didn't even climb up on the real roof, I let Eddy do that. With our branch cutting safety record you should just be thankful we are still here to blog about it.

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