We're freshly back from a refreshing stay at this marvelous spot on the San Marcos river in Fentress, TX. Our friends Paula and Mateo got married here 11 years ago yesterday and in honor of that fact they rented this
place out again and invited all their friends. It was really a magical place. This huge pecan orchard, right on the river, and all just so quiet and still... nobody else around for miles, it felt like. Our kids got on famously with the other kids there, and everybody just swam and played and feasted and had themselves a time. And the kids even konked at a decent hour so the adults could sit around the fire sipping fine tequila and hearing stories about Paula and Mateo chasing each other around the Honduras twenty years ago (they met in the Peace Corps). It was such a cool story... totally like the classic romantic comedy where the hero and heroine fight and fight and hate each other until suddenly they realize they're in love...
Also Paula asked us all to share some secret we believed contributed to longevity in a relationship and that was fun to listen to, too. But when we woke up nobody could remember the secrets... we're afraid they might not return to us until we reach the tequila saturation point some other day...
Jack took the extremely blurry picture of me, since nobody else ever remembers to take pictures of me I thought I'd include it. And don't you love that gigantic SWING? That's not even a fixture there... a friend brought it and swung it up... it was so fun. I could sit on it with two or three children (and once even Etta on my back in the Ergo) and get ourselves going so incredibly high....
Fish Camp!!!
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