Where's Walker?: Suburban Life and Freiheit Store

I spent last weekend in New Braunfels. On the way I stopped at a jackpot and was close to winning something, but my partner missed. The story of all team ropers who do not win.

This is what happens when you dally and the header does not stop kicking his horse...I count 6 blisters...can you find anymore?

Celeste is housesitting for some friends of hers and so we hung out in the suburbs. It was weird...really weird. The people she is housesitting for are nice and cool, but it was like we just stepped into someone else's life for a few days. If you have never experienced this phenomenon, you won't understand what I'm talking about.

Picture some family that you know. The picture yourself living in their house, with their pets, their furnishings, their everything. It was pretty different.

Saturday we decided along with some other friends to float the river. After getting to the tube rental place and seeing the line that would have made us wait for over an hour just to get the tubes, we were unsure. So we walked around the side of the tube rental building and had decided to just swim and hang out for a while. Well, the guy who owned the rental place was on the second story of the building bar-b-queing and he looked down and hollered, "Nunez!!". Ryan is a good friend of mine and this guy had met Ryan before. They exchanged a couple sentences and Ryan explained that we wanted to float, but the tube rental line was too long. It wasn't too long for this fella since he owned the place. In about 15 minutes, we had tubes and were on the river. Nice...thanks Ryan for getting us hooked up. Also thanks for running all those windsprints in football....the tube shop owner was a UT fan....

After floating we went over to a friend of a friend's house. The friend of a friend just happened to be Rodney Hayden. If you haven't checked out his music you should. http://www.rodneyhayden.com/. He is all honky tonk country and a really cool guy. He was cooking fajitas and we visited with him for a couple hours before he went to play his gig at Freiheit that night. It seemed like the place to be, so we decided to check that out.

Here's some of the crew from the float and Freiheit: me, Walker Strait, Bubba Strait and, Trey Strait.

The concert was great and Rodney put on a good show. It's not many people nowadays that will just rip into a good old Hank Jr. song and sing it like they mean it. He can and will. Not to mention his originals...it's pretty good stuff.

Me and Ryan.

All in all it was a great trip. I am headed back this weekend to get another dose of it. I think we might go to the lake this weekend. More pics on the way!

Your humble correspondent and Celeste showing the pearly whites.