So my Birthday is always over Labor day weekend for the most part because I was born on September 1st. This year we had to work on my birthday so we did not do anything to celebrate it on the 1st. I'm quite used to this as my Brothers Bday is on the 28th of August and my Fathers bday is on the 29th of August. Growing up my birthday was not usually celebrated on my official birthday.
Thanks to Forever Resorts, the company we are currently working for, for my 2 free (birthday) nights at
Lajitas Golf Resort in Lajitas, Texas. Here's what happened.
Leaving the park we decided to stop at the tunnel that leads to our end of the park and get a few pictures. I love this little tunnel. It not only lets me know that we are almost home after a long ride across the park, but it also has a pretty cool view of the
Sierra del Carmen Mountains in Mexico behind it.
Check-in at the hotel was not till 3pm so we decided to stop at the
Chili Pepper Cafe in Terlingua to get some food. We always enjoy this place because of the hot salsa and spicy food.
Lajitas Hotel is broken into 3 different areas, luckily we were able to stay in the Main hotel.
After check in we walked down to the Longhorn museum that is connected to the Golf Resort check-in. I don't have a long arm span but this Longhorn's
horn span was still huge.
After walking around a bit we decided to check out the pool, but due to the weather, we were not able to enjoy the pool so we decided to do some more walking and check out the bar.
This was the main photo on the back end of the bar. We started out with a shot of Bourbon to start the night off, I jumped to a French 75, went to Vodka for a Lemon drop Martini and ended the night with a Mexican Martini! We had a great dinner with some fun conversation about our travels with a few of the other guests at the bar.
Instead of paying $250 to rent a Jeep for the day we decided to rent a Golf cart from Black Jack's Crossing for the morning and drive around the course. We were told it was a beautiful drive and even if we did not play golf we would still enjoy it. The entire trip took us just over 2.5 hours after all our stops to take pictures and just enjoy the views. It was well worth it!
Just pass hole 9 is a pump house that supplies water to the water features for the front 9. If you look closely in the picture below you can barely see it.
We actually had to turn around on hole 11 because we passed these ruins, it was not until we were on the green looking back that we could see them.
After our fun golf cart exploration, we headed back to the hotel to get ready for my Gentleman's Facial and Agave massage. Bert wanted me to have a massage to help relax for my birthday. The couple who work at the
Lajitas Agave Spa also have a massage studio in Terlingua, Tx.
After my massage, we had a few hours to simply relax, so we watched some US Open tennis and just kind of kicked back in the room. That evening a friend of Bert's offered to make us dinner in Terlingua. On our way out of Lajitas, we decide to make a quick stop and take a picture of Mayor Clay Henry. He is the one on top of the house lol.
Sadly we do not have any pictures of dinner. Melissa made an amazing dinner for us, I'm not a big fan of grits but if you toss shrimp on top of it its a go. While the food was cooking she gave us a tour of her property on Ben's Hole creek. Could not see myself living in Terlingua unless it was a property kind of like hers.
After dinner, we made our way back to Lajitas. Bert hung out in the room to watch a bit of the US Open while I went down to the pool. Within a few minutes of being at the pool, it was totally dark. Thanks to the cover of darkness I was able to swim au naturel in the pool and the fountain, drinks might have been involved lol. Great Birthday!!
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