We had a lot of discussion about what to do for our first anniversary. Originally I thought we should go to a bed and breakfast in the hill country around Austin. However as I started looking around I realized most of them had a 3 night minimum over Memorial Day (our anniversary was that Saturday). With the dog and a lot of upcoming travel for both of us, we weren't quite up to 3 nights away.
I finally settled on camping at Inks Lake State Park. We had a ton of fun over the winter camping at Enchanted Rock, and Chuy could come along. She has turned into quite the water dog, so I thought a lake would be a lot of fun. So I made reservations for two nights and a canoe trip.
Andrew really likes to get up early once he's up, but he doesn't like the idea the night before or before he gets out of bed. There was some negotiations on the departure time, but compromised with 7 am. We got out there by 8:30 am and waited in a (long) line to get a campsite. We got a great one that was still occupied but they would be out by 2 pm. We decided to go on a walk and check out the area.
We headed to Devil's Cove. It was a pretty fun swimming hole. Chuy had a blast playing in the water and followed me across to the other side when I went over. She played over there with a nice lab who was there with his family for a while. We swam back across (I slipped and fell in trying to get back in gracefully and she loyally jumped in after me) and had lunch. We explored a little more and then headed to set up our campsite.
After set up we explored the rest of the state park and marveled at all the extravagant RV set ups in the campsites with electricity. Dinner was a bit of a bust- we had some trouble getting the fire going, my foil chicken dinners were pretty unexciting, and the jiffy pop wouldn't pop. Thank goodness s'mores are pretty full proof!
That night was awful. I think Chuy was hot and never really got settled. She was up all night, and barking about every 45 minutes at something. We didn't sleep much. As our anniversary dawned, I got up early and took Chuy outside to get breakfast going and try to let Andrew get a little bit of uninterrupted sleep. We were all pretty tired, but had decided to head over to recreation area on the Colorado River.
It took us a long time to find it, and when we got there it was pretty disappointing. The river is dammed there to make Lake Travis. Lake Travis is at 40% capacity, so we had a lunch on what used to be the lake bed and let Chuy play in the water for a while. We drove around the park, but it was pretty depressing so we headed back. The sun had been hidden by clouds most of the day, but as we pulled up it came out. We had some fun lake shore time (Chuy had a blast chasing the waves created by boat wakes). We weren't looking forward to the idea of another night with a barking dog and a storm looked like it was about to roll in, so we packed up and got outta dodge! We didn't want to wait for the next day's canoe tour- there was no way it could be worth it. We drove through some pretty torrential rainstorms and then made dinner at home. After a long two days we slept well!
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