On Saturday, Cary, Brylee, and I drove to Sulphur Springs to see Brad, Faith, and Helen and go to Winnsboro and see the Autumn Trails, the annual Fall Festival held there.
The big news of the day: look who became buddies with her uncle...finally!
Lunch was delicious barbecue, and then on to walking along the streets, checking out the antique cars, stores, and vendors all around the area.
And of course, we had to check out and find a cache. And with the help of Brennan, a (boy)friend of Helen's, we found one, adding to our total, and getting another county under our belt as well!
(this picture is of us, being sneaky and signing the log....)
After walking the festival, we drove to Bright Star, Brad and Faith's new school, and got a little tour. What a cute little school! Currently, they have 1 classroom that teaches 4th and 5th grade, and have more rooms that they can gr
ow with as the school expands.I didn't get enough pictures of the school because I was fascinated with watching Helen and Brylee interact. They are so adorable, and Helen is awesome with her little cousin!
And just around the corner was Mema's house, so of course, we went for a visit!
Then, of course, what is the weekend without a little more caching? We had to get Brad out of his '13' slump, so off we went!
The clouds were threatening, but that didn't stop us from running into a graveyard with the wind kicking up and the temperatures dropping! There we found 2 caches...yay!
Cary, Brylee, and I headed home about 4:00, but it took 3 hours as opposed to the usual 1 1/2. Why you ask?
It was pouring rain as we drove. Water slamming on our little car. We also stopped at a quick-e store to grab ourselves some snacks since we were starting to run into dinner time, and Brylee needed to stretch her little legs. We took our time while there, sitting in the parking lot, playing with Brylee and talking.
Once we got on the road again, I thought it would be smooth sailing, getting to my parents' house in time to give our little dog his medication. But oh, I was so wrong!
Once we got onto 635, Brylee managed to pull off a small piece of plastic, put it in her mouth, and after I tried to get it out, she managed to throw up all of her food. So Cary had to pull over and make an emergency clean up. By the time we got to our apartment, I had to literally hop into my car and drive to my parents' house to give Chester his medication and then take him home, while Cary gave Brylee a bath and we stripped her car seat down and washed every washable part...
Needless to say, we went to bed exhausted that night!
Sunday morning, however, was much better, starting off with going to Live Oak church for their service. Seeing old friends and letting Brylee socialize is wonderful!
Afterwards, we went to lunch, and while Brylee slept in her (clean) carseat, we did a little geo-caching. Oh, what a beautiful day to do that!
Flower Mound has several pumpkin patches this time of year, and we went to one of them, excited to get pictures of Brylee and lots of pumpkins. We did not anticipate how busy it was there. Tons of families, pumpkins, fun and games...our favorite was the Pumpkin Chunkin', which consisted of putting a small pumpkin into a long slingshot and trying to make it fly between Lucy's (or a former Charlie Brown) mouth. If you did, you got a free pumpkin!
On the drive home, mom and dad wanted to see if Cary and I could find a cache that they had found, but Cary had not found before. It was called Kirkpatrick meets it's end. Apparently the cache was in a tree stump...and when we got to that tree stump, it was gone. I guess this cache met it's end!
Here are the clouds that we saw on the drive home. Apparently, in some counties there were some severe storms that night. Navarro County had a tornado rip through, causing lots of destruction. Crazy how the weather can be so dangerous, but yet so beautiful at the same time!
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