{Day Four} San Antonio

Here we are on the last day of our vacation. We actually left San Antonio and spent a day in Gruene, TX. I had a MOPS friend suggest this little town located right outside of New Braunfels and it was a great place to visit! 

Gruene was filled with tons of shops, especially stores with home decor and clothing boutiques. There are also some good restaraunts and, from what I've heard, nice bed and breakfasts. I would love to go back and stay in a B&B with Ryan one day.

We ate lunch at the Gristmill. I had read a blog post about Gruene and this place was highly recommended. We dined on the patio over looking the Guadalupe river and the food was amazing.

I love little "historic" downtown areas. I use the term historic to mean rustic looking stores that contain cute clothing and jewelry more than anything actually related to history.

Eva liked this awesome toy store! I'm pretty sure they sold every Melissa and Doug product. Of course I wanted to buy her everything, but then I remembered the truth that she already has more toys than any child really needs. So instead I took her picture with the cute duck when she asked me to.

When we were done shopping we got to go sit on this beautiful swing as her "reward." To be honest, it was a bit of a rough day with miss grumpy-pants because she was on day 4 of vacation overload. We tried to make the best of it though and she was able to have a bit more self control as the day went on. I think she was really sad when we packed up and left the vacation home that morning and she needed some time to adjust to the fact that we would be going home that night.

We walked down to the Guadalupe River. If I stayed here with just Ryan, I would definitely want to float the river with him. 

Toesies! Before making a long car ride home we refreshed our tired toes in the river.

When we were a few hours out from home, we started talking about how we weren't quite ready to go home yet. We had talked the day before about staying one more night somewhere but decided to stick to our vacation budget. So what's the next best thing? A night at Nana and Papa's! We didn't even tell Eva, we just pulled up after dinner and surprised her! This was a smart choice. We got one more night/day to relax and play with sweet Mallory before going back to reality. We might end all future vacations this way :)