A Weekend Away

This past weekend included Valentine's Day and President's Day. To us, it meant a long weekend, so we decided to make a mini-vacation out of it. We started by driving to San Antonio late Friday evening. We stayed at my favorite Texas resort, The Hill-Country Hyatt. If you have never been, I highly recommend this fun and beautiful Texas getaway. 

Saturday morning, we woke up early and enjoyed what I think is the very best hotel breakfast I have ever had. I am not exaggerating--it is the best. Then, we walked around the grounds a little bit and just enjoyed the morning weather. The weather was perfect while we were there--started off cool in the morning and then warmed up as the day went on. Since we had a spa treatment later that day, we were able to use the spa all day, so we decided to do just that. Once it warmed up, we laid out by the pool and read and relaxed. 

That night, Matt had made a reservation at one of the restaurants at the hotel, Antler's Lodge for a little Valentine's Dinner Date. Check out that chandelier! Our dinner was delicious, and instead of ordering dessert there at the restaurant, we decided to head out to the fire pit where they were cooking s'mores. While we were out there, three raccoons came right up to us (which apparently happens all the time, but I completely freaked out at first). We Matt was brave enough to feed them. They took the food right out of his hands.

The whole weekend, I was suffering from a middle-school-teacher-cold and all that comes with- sore throat, coughing, sneezing, etc. Sunday morning, my whole face was swollen, but that wasn't going to stop us from having our favorite breakfast, of course. 

Since we were already in the hill-country, we decided to make a day trip to Austin while we were in that area. Road trip!!

Neither of us had ever been on UT's campus, and as Aggies, it was no easy feat. There was a whole lot of orange, but I will say… it was a good experience. We ate lunch across from campus at Mellow Mushroom. And then started exploring the campus, even walking into a few buildings and almost getting lost. Then, we made it over to the football stadium, and we just had to take a couple of gig 'em pictures to commemorate the moment.

                         

Right across from the campus are some of the sorority houses, and I just had to see the Pi Phi house. So, Matt obliged, and we drove by it. I didn't go inside, but I still was able to revel in its beauty from the outside.

Later that evening, we made our way to South Congress, where there are some of our favorite little shops and just a fun place to walk around. We were going to have dinner down there, but we decided to go to Hula Hut on the water instead, one of Matt's favorite places.

Matt had a few meetings Monday morning, and then we were on the road back to Houston Monday afternoon. We had to stop at the famous Tiff's Treats for a Tiff-wich before leaving. #worthit

In true Texas-fashion, we had to make a pit-stop at Buc-ee's on our way home. Can't take a Texas road trip without it.

Overall, it was a great holiday weekend. 

Happy Valentine's Day and Happy President's Day to all! 

…especially to my very favorite president, John Adams, and his first lady, Abigail!