Moonrise Retreat - Day Five (Herb Farm)

One of the many signs and reasons I love the Fredericksburg Herb Farm.  They have made some changes over the years since we were married there that I don't really like.  But they've left enough things the same that I still love walking through, and showing the boys exactly what happened where on that very special of days.

We thought we would be clever and have matching Fredericksburg purple t-shirts (no reason for purple other than that was the one we found in all of our sizes at the T-shirt shop).  But I am disappointed in our decision because they look a little cheesy.  Should have just gone with the all denim or all white shirts. 

As you can see, it's still a beautiful place to visit.  The heat of summer had not hit yet, so everything still looked so fresh and pretty.  There are many benches scattered around to just sit and take it all in.  It's a bit surreal to think of that day.  We were so full of hope that we'd get to have a child even as old as we were.  And now look at what's happened.  Double the blessings!  That little thundercloud that rained all that fertility on us that day really did its job!!!

And what trip to the Herb Farm would be complete without a visit from Mamaw, ummm I mean one the the Farm Cats.  We met a very nice but quirky older woman who worked at the Farm.  She said the cats are not pets there, they are employees!  I guess if we'd told her our crazy cat story from our wedding day she would have thought we were plenty quirky ourselves. 

We love, love, love this pic that Gabriel took of us under "our" windmill.  For many years after the wedding one of our photographer's shots of us under this windmill would be in every Visitor's Guide in every hotel room in town. We were famous! 

Farewell, Herb Farm, don't change a thing until we come back again in a few years!

We had a break at the brewery after that emotional ride.  Mr. Hefeweizen, I'm very happy to see you!  After a small rest at the B&B, Jav took the boys to the community pool so they could practice swimming and have some fun.  Joel was scheduled to start swim lessons the Monday after we returned from vacation.  It's kind of neat to think that my mom and uncle used to swim as kids in this very pool, or at least one very much like it.

I have no more pics from this day, I guess we had another wonderful Hill Country evening of playing board games, eating ice cream under the stars, and slowly drifting off to slumberland.   Unfortunately, this ended up being the last night of the vacation that was a peaceful one for me.  More to come.