Fort Davis & Balmorhea

We took a family trip to Fort Davis & Balmorhea. We stayed at the Davis Mountains State Park, right outside Fort Davis and made a day trip to the natural spring fed pool at Balmorhea State Park.
Justin, Patty and I drove down Saturday night when Patty got off work(around midnight) We got there around 4 am and drove around for almost 30 minutes looking for the campsite due to poor signage. The next morning we got up and ate breakfast then while Mom and Dad took some of the kids hiking Patty, Justin, the rest of the kids and I drove to McDonalds Observatory to get Mom's camera she had left there the night before at the star party. It looked so cool! I definitely want to go back at night for a star party. After that we ate a quick lunch then drove to the Fort in Fort Davis which is where the hiking trail they went on ended up. We walked around the Fort for awhile then drove into town and went and had Ice Cream at this super cool little shop.

The we went to a rattlesnake emporium. GROSS!! Haha the kids loved it though

After that we walked around downtown Fort Davis, it was a very cute little town.

This was a cute little place, I don't even know what to call it, there was a small hotel upstairs along with an art gallery/store. Downstairs was a restaurant and store. So cute!! (Justin, Patty and I had to leave early and didn't get to eat here but everyone else did and said it was really good)

After that it started raining so we mostly stayed in our tents or the trailer and talked then ended up having to cook supper in the rain. Annie and Kellen got there shortly after we finished eating and we ate s'mores and went to bed. The next morning we got up early and went to Balmorhea State Park. There is a spring fed pool, partial man made partially natural. I wish I had an underwater camera because it was soooo cool! 

We all got to snorkel and mom and dad got to scuba dive!

You can kind of see in the back of the picture close to that little building where the water gets darker, that's the natural bottom part, it was really cool.

                                                  Mom and Dad getting ready to scuba!!

Family picture before Justin, Patty and I had to leave

Matthew would put leftover bread from our lunch in between his toes and then stick his feet in the water and let the fish eat it from between his toes. We had a ton of fun and can't wait to go back!!

Jenny