Act of Kindness

This past weekend we celebrated my friends bachelorette party in New Braunfels in the beautiful hill country of Texas. This is definitely one of my favorite places to be. Eight girls packed up a couple of coolers and got going on the Guadalupe river Saturday afternoon. Now if you have ever floated the river, or any river I guess your group will more than likely split away from each other at some point. Well, a few of us did get separated, thought we missed our exit, and tried to swim upstream with 2 coolers. This did not work. We did see this couple sitting on the porch and they kindly came down to rescue us. Tubes, coolers, and all.

Some of you may know that bout a month ago the area got drenched with rain, and the river rose so fast and flooded most of the houses, including theirs. Here are a few images of what the damage looked like...

The condo we stayed in is to the right of the photo, you can see the pool, the place we rented our tubes from is the building on the left

There is a bridge under there people usually float under

When the water receded - the building behind it is the one in the first picture, the water got high enough to make it inside of the building

A lot of buses and cars were wrapped around trees, or in the river

Lance, Jana and their son lost the entire first floor of their house, and still had no power. They had such positive attitudes, and had pretty much lost everything. You see they had no warning this rain and flooding was going to be this bad, no one did. It took 45 minutes for the river to rise and destroy their home. They said they were swimming in their house. The water receded within the hour after the rain, but the damage had been done. After meeting them, and seeing what a positive outlook they had made the little things in life that go wrong not seem so bad. I hope they are able to rebuild their lives and their home. With such a positive outllook on life, how could they not?

Here is a photo of one of the places we love to go, Gruene Hall - Texas' oldest dance hall.

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend!