Day One Marble Falls

We arrived on Saturday afternoon in Marble Falls, Texas.  We’d decided on Marble Falls because of it’s proximity to several things.  John and I had never explored this far north in the Hill Country.  We had lots of things on our list to do:  see a cave, visit family, take a cruise on a river, see a waterfall, see a dam, and sleep in a bit.  The last one is mighty difficult to do with a two year old, but we’ve tried.  One thing John and I agree on:  the next vacation we take will be sans kid.  Now we just have to figure out how to manage that and where we’re going.

We rented a 2 BR 1 BA house on Lake Marble Falls for the week.  It’s real close to lots of things and the house it self has most everything you’d need, including Wi-Fi, satellite TV,  a lovely back porch with ceiling fans and a dock down at the water. 

On Saturday, we unpacked and found a local Mexican restaurant for dinner.  It was located across a creek bed from the UMC, which had a rather unusual cross window set into a rounded out part of the building that I suspect is part of the sanctuary.  It was pretty cool looking.  On Sunday we were busy.  So the rest of this post will cover that.  I hope to catch up a bit on my posts before we actually head home or else it might take forever like it did when we went to Wimberley this summer.

 

Bright and early Sunday, we caught the first tour of the day at Longhorn Caverns.  JHP was not on his best behavior.  Listening proved to be difficult to do for him that day.  We did our best to keep him in check and entertained.  Luckily it wasn’t too busy and there weren’t too many places he could get into trouble.  This cave did not have as many drop offs as some caves we’ve been in. 

The coolest part of this cave was the smoothed out walls that an underground river formed.

Mr. Independent climbing the 52 stairs out of the cavern.  Actually, he walked the whole way through the cave and needed little assistance to make his way on his own.

At the top of the stairs we took a rest where Daddy snapped this cute photo of me and John.

 

Right after we left Longhorn Caverns, coming round a bend on the rode, this rose up on the horizon.  It’s a castle!  John tells me that someone was so enamored with them on a trip to Europe, that they came home and built there own.  It’s private, but you can get married there.  Packages start at ONLY $7000.  It certainly looked out of place, but really cool at that same time!

On the way back to the house, we stopped at on overlook to check out Lake LBJ.  This area has a series of lakes along where the Colorado River flows.  Then we continued home to grab some lunch.

After lunch we headed down to the dock to check out the water.  There’s a nice dock with chairs to rest in.  And then there’s lots of rocks that go out into the water.  John found a net on the patio and has had great fun, whether it be hunting butterflies or stuff in the water.

Being that close to the water put Daddy on edge where JHP is concerned.  On subsequent trips down, Daddy has insisted that JHP wear his life jacket.

The houses in this area sit high up off the river on cliffs.  To access the dock and the lake, you must go down this very sturdy circular staircase.  Only problem, JHP refused to use the handrails because there were spider webs on them.

Sunday night we went to a local place called the River City Grille.  It looks out on the lake just a short distance across from where our house is.  It was pretty good and I got some great carrot cake to go.  After dinner, we hit the local HEB for some extra foodstuffs.

-EBP-