We had a couple days after the wedding to visit San Antonio and stayed near Gruene, TX at our timeshare in New Brunsfels

Gruene, pronounced Green,  was a cute little town,  with the oldest music hall in Texas.   We enjoyed dinner here 2 nights,  and a grew minutes on the Gruene Hall enjoying some music

Ty and Ashlee (my cousin Jeff’s daughter) met at a new years Eve party 7 years ago when they were both deployed in Guam with the Navy!   So “tying” the knot on NYE was a natural!  it was a fun wedding,  about 200 family and friends from their lives in Guam,  Utah,  where they go to college,  and homes in Florida and Texas.  People traveled from many states, including Michigan and California!  It was a great NYE party as well as a fun wedding!  

It has been a couple days, so we have recuperated from the hustle bustle!  We’ve had a fun visit with Trey, Kaila and Zuriah! 

This is Zuriah’s pet pig, Darla!

We also had a great visit with Emmett’s daughters!  Kristina was starting with Rebecca and Joel for Christmas!  We had a great dinner at a unique Chinese restaurant, QI,  in Austin together with Joel, the girls, and their mom,  Linda.

We shared 3 of their fabulous desserts!

We are spending Christmas with family in Texas this year! 

Flying into Austin,  there was a very active thunder cell just to the east! 

AMERICAN has had an outage early today and it backed up all the flights all day!  Ours was 3 hours late leaving OC, and even arriving in Austin,  the airport was jammed with incoming flights and some diverted because of the storms.   We are still on the tarmac, waiting for a gate to park and Disembark!  40 minutes so far and no sign of moving yet.  We will make it in time for Santa in the morning but we missed dinner! 

We got to see a show and luck on the old river boat Gen Jackson.   Unfortunately,  it didn’t leave the dock,  but the food and show were good!

A big highlight was our last evening,  a concert at the Grand Ole Opry

Our group

And the performers

The songwriters,  Don Schlitz, who wrote the “Gambler” and a couple other songs

A couple highlights

Our big adventure here in Nashville was to sing at the Schermerhorn symphony hall with Travis Cottrell, Cliff and April Durham,  and the Voices of Lee, an acapella group from Lee University.   They were all fabulous and the concert was a joy!

I will add some more more professional pics of our performance when the official photos are on line.   I may even have a link to some of the music!

The home of the Nashville symphony. Schermerhorn concert hall in downtown Nashville

We are singing, along with some of our Chorale members, at the Schermerhorn Symphony hall, joining 250 more local TN voices in a great concert celebration!

Our first day was a practice, then a full day off sightseeing Nashville! First stop, the Ryman Auditorium!

We had a great Nashville tour guide so saw lots of fun sights around town.   The fort where the first sellers landed

Bicentenial park, the Tennessee state capital,  the WW II memorial and farmers market. 

We visited the Marathon motor works old factory and shops

Centennial park

We drove along music row where many of the recording studios are located,  and along a section of Broadway.   The city skyline is really beautiful

Country music Hall of Fame

Costumes

Across the street,  the Wall of Fame

We are again visiting family in Nebraska

Short Lunch visit with granddaughter Emma, on our way thru Denver

Grandson Tucker’s Football game.  Tuck made the only touchdown for Chase County Longhorns.    A Loss, but a good game

Fun kayaking with Liz at Rock Creek

There was a huge solar flar today so beautiful Northern lights tonight

Our 2nd game watching Tucker play was homecoming!  He scored another touchdown,  even tho the team didn’t win.  

It was homecoming so after the dance Ticket and his girlfriend Navee ready for the dance

Our short visit is over and we are heading home,  on the red eye,  so that we can make it to our Chorale rehearsal Tuesday evening at 6:30! 

Best part of our visit,  Henry is feeling better, and I think he enjoyed our visit.   Emmett made us all a pot roast dinner one day with left lovers for another day.  We did a little shopping for a few things,  like his favorite poke, and had a poke lunch with him today.   He told us many stories and we thoroughly enjoyed chatting with him.   The prayers for his recovery are working!  And he has several lovely ladies watching over him each day!  We are going home very encouraged and thankful!

We enjoyed our last lovely sunset and a delicious fish dinner at our favorite restaurant,  Huggos

Aloha,  Kona,  until next time