Lupe's 2018 Birthday

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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How we accidentally met our new friend Melissa at Starlight Theater in the Terlingua Ghost Town. 

For more pictures and video feel free to check out our Google Album Lupe's 2018 Birthday Weekend

Visiting Viviana before her Deployment to Germany

Living on the road I don't get to see my family as much as I would like, so when the opportunity came up to see my little sister before her deployment I had to take it. Since Bert and I work the same schedule he was unable to travel with me.

I looked into flying but it was going to be $300+ round trip and Bert would have to drive me 3 hours to the airport and 3 hours back home. Greyhound was going to be about $150 round trip but last time I took Greyhound I got extremely sick so that was a no go. Only other option was the train for $110, I had never been on the train so I thought this might be a fun trip to try it out, even if it was going to be a 14 hr ride. At least it was all overnight so I could sleep most of the time. 

The plan was to leave on Thursday and return on Tuesday. After discussing it with Bert  I was only working a half day on Thursday and already had the beginning of the week off. I looked for a earlier train and was able to leave on Monday and return the following Tuesday giving me a full week with family.  

While in Austin I was able to hang out with all of my siblings, something that does not happen very often. My mother made some amazing home cooked meals and I was able to just be with my family. We watched movies, painted and just sat around talking a lot.  

The VFW my family belongs to held a Deployment party for my lil sister. All of my siblings showed up and a group of Soldiers stationed with Viviana came to celebrate with us as well. We ate and drank and had a blast. 

Hope you enjoy the video I made of the time with my family.

Roadrunner!

When we first got to Big Bend we were so exited to see the roadrunners all over the place. Now we don't go more than a day without seeing one.

I (Lupe) came home for lunch as I do most days. When I was heading out to go back to work I stopped in my tracks when I saw this roadrunner on the truck.

I thought he was going to run off but he did not.

Turns out he wanted to get in the truck with me to go to work. 

He struggled to get in but could not make it in.

He was not happy when I jumped in the car and did not let him in.

They look cute but every time I see one it reminds me of this scene from Jurassic Park: Lost World.

"If you don't know what happens you need to watch the movie."