A Rose Among The Thorns

This morning the sun came out once again, along with the 30mph winds, so we headed off 16 miles out of town to the Hidden Springs golf course.  We assumed this course never gets played because there are never any cars in the parking lot.  Today they showed up.  We were behind a threesome, who were behind a fivesome, who were behind another fivesome (all very old, slow women).  Since we kept catching up with the 3 guys, and they kept inviting us to join then, we finally did on the 4th hole.  Steve, Alan, and Jeff are friends from Dallas on one of their many golf trips. 

I'm always leary of joining with guys because lots of them just don't like golfing with women.  Steve and Jeff were ok (20 & 30 somethings) while Alan (probably mid-50s) didn't seem real pleased that Jeff had asked us to play along.  Our golf games were much better than Friday's round, and we ended up wow-ing them.  Of course, in their defense, they had never played this course before.  Friday's round took 5 hours, and so did today's.  Way too long, and I'm beat. 

We headed back to the Fredericksburg Brewery for an early dinner.  Pam and Dennis had raved about the burger so I ordered it which Mark ordered some German pork chop schnitzel dinner.  Both were delicious.  Mine was gigantic!

I took off the bottom bun, along with the tomatoes, lettuce, and onion to make it manageable to eat. 

Tomorrow we're going to start packing up the trailer to start making our way home.  We're tired of the never-ending wind.  God willing, we'll be back some time on Friday.  It's been a wonderful winter, but we're ready to get home to family and friends - we miss everyone.