Well it was another great year at Waltonia! Sadly I was not a picture taker for the week so I only have a few photos. Maybe when I get them from my parents and my brother then I will put some on here. Until then, here are a couple along the way, many courtesy of my aunt Trina.

At the big cabin to eat dinner together. I think this is shrimp night. My dad is famous for eating the most shrimp.

The week began with a night and morning in Austin with my college friend Ruthie. I went with her and her fiance to Master Pancake Theater at the Alamo Draft House and saw a Mystery Science Theater type thing about Robin Hood. It was hilarious! It was so fun to hang out Ruthie!

Here we are in front of a famous breakfast place that I cannot remember the name. They have yummy pancakes!

I then drove myself to Waltonia, stopping for a few yummy peaches. The week was pretty normal, filled with swimming, eating, talking, sleeping and reading. I read an awesome book called The Host. Every day we swam for a few hours. Most of it was in an area of the river that is too deep to touch. We have a great dock and a huge floating raft to play on.

Me and Shan and my sweet cousin Hannah

Me and Shan and Margaret

Me and my Momma!

One adventure of the week was making cupcakes. Shan is super creative and crafty and one of her new things has been making cupcakes. I asked her to bring her supplies so we could do something fun. I had in mind a river scene or something simple (which is what I did as you will see) but Shan had much bigger plans. Meet our family...on cupcakes!

Get it? It's our family TREE! We are all there up to my grandparents.

This is me!

Although it is still up for discussion, we might or might not have celebrated our 30th year at Waltonia. Obviously I am not 30 so it was not my 30th anniversary, but some think the first time anyone went was 30 years ago...and then again it might be 29 years ago...Oh well! We can just celebrate again next year. In honor of the anniversary (real or fake) I made this cupcake cake with a pretty river scene and a tiny model of Waltonia, complete with cabins, pavilion, white road, dock and green raft.

Go me!

Another adventure we embarked on was watching the bats. There are lots of places around this area where bats live and you can go to these locations at sundown and watch them fly out. Cool huh?!?! So one night we did this and it was crazy! These pictures cannot capture how many there were flying around. It was up to 3 million bats and hundreds of people come to watch. These bats lived in an old railroad tunnel. It was amazing! I took a video but have no clue how to put that on here so this is all I got.

Can you see them?

Me and my dad after the bats

We did a lot of other fun things like going to the Stonehenge replica but I will save that for another post when I have more pictures.

On another note, I just cannot seem to stay in Abilene for more than a week at a time so I am off to DC tomorrow with my brother. Yea! And then school starts....yea?