Visit to Texas

Yes, we have been on the move again and this time we returned to San Antonio Texas, our second home. It had been 2 years and 3 months since our last visit and it was geat to spend time with our many friends who live in this area.

We stayed with Maureen and Dennis Reilly whom we have been great friends with for 16 years ever since Beverley was posted to Fort Sam Houston as an International Military Student.

Maureen and Dennis have a great house and two lovely toy poodles called Savanah and Buddy. Both dogs enjoy lots of attention and cuddles and you will see from the photo below just how comfortable they make themselves particularly on Ross's lap.

Weatherwise it was very hot and for some 58 days straight the temperatures had reached well over 100 f. The grass is dying as are the tress and shrubs.


Fortunately the Reilly's have a great pool which you can see from the photo below so Ross spent quite a bit of time sitting in the pool.




We were also able to celebrate with Randy and Wanda Reynolds and their family and friends a great lunch at their home in Henley TX. The occassion being that Randy has finally after 30+years taken his discharge from the USAF. We first met Randy and Wanda in 1998 when they were on posting to Australia and have had the opportunity to spend time with them when they were posted to Hawaii.




Now you have all heard I'm sure that everything is bigger in Texas and there is a lot of truth to this saying as evidenced by the very large frozen margarita in the photo below. It was so large I had to offer the remainder to Ross to finish.


As usual we visited our favorite eating places and Ross was able to enjoy his best beer, Shiner Bock.

While we never ventured into the Riverwalk or revisited the Alamo if you look at http://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/ you can see what these area look like.

Of course no trip to San Antonio is complete without a visit to San Marcos and the outlet stores. The area just grows and grows and now spreads over many acres. The photo below provides a snapshot of how this place is developing.

Now that Ross is back at university and has a rather heavy acadaemic workload that sees him attending university 4 days a week and twice on Wednesdays, we are limited to day trips closer to home.

Best wishes to all and remain happy and well.

Love Bev and Ross