"It will be so much fun" they said!
"The Comal is totally family friendly and safe" they said!
Well it sure was quite the adventure! That's what they should have said!
The day started out not going as planned to begin with so we should have known! We were on schedule and after breakfast at our hotel we showed up to our tube outfitter and they were closed! After the hard rain storm last night the city had closed the Comal River. So we took a detour and we were actually all happy with what we came up with! We drove around the darling town of New Braunfels, saw lots of deer, rode the choo choo train at Landa Park and then fulfilled Sa's dream by going antiquing! 
Then after some waiting we got the green light to go tubing. It took some time to get checked in, get our tubes and get all set up. Meanwhile the clouds were very ominous. We finally loaded the shuttle to the drop off point and right when the shuttle dropped us off it began to POUR! Like Pour! We all huddled under a park pavilion and decided to eat the lunch that we had packed and were planning to eat on the river. So we all sat on the concrete in a small space and ate peanut butter sandwiches and chips with the rain all around us. It sure was something! Then finally we decided to just go for it! We were there to get wet anyway. So we drug all our tubes down to the river in the pouring rain! 
The next three hours sure were interesting! The rain stopped but then we had other drama. To sum up the drama that followed...we all got seperated, Taryn lost everything in her cooler, Kellie and I both flipped out of our tubes seperately and Kellie honestly nearly drowned and had a very terrifying experience. There were good and fun times but over all I was just SO thankful we had family prayer last night and that the Lord protected us and we all made it! The last hour after Taryn totally handled helping Kellie and having Riley, they joined me, Keagan and Hudson and we had a good time while Taryn waded and pushed and drug us to the end. She was a rockstar! And we all survived with quite a story to tell! 
After much needed showers we headed off for another adventure! But this one was much calmer. We drove 30 minutes to Driftwood, TX, the middle of nowhere in the Hill Country of Texas to eat some AMAZING BBQ! Salt Lick BBQ is one of the top 3 best BBQ restaurants in the country! It was fun and worth the drive. Best sausage I've ever had in my life!
Oh my goodness! What an adventure! Glad you had fun- part of the time at least! :)
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