Jan 15-19 2026 Lake Georgetown and Austin Volleyball Tournament

Wednesday was a little chaotic. Normally I have most everything ready to travel. We just had so much going on I had to load everything in one day. We also had been without cell service for two day because Verizion was having problems. About 2:00 pm I went to put my hitch on my truck and somehow I had misplaced the sleeve I needed. My truck is a 1 ton and has a 3 inch receiver so I need the sleeve to fit the trailer receiver. I headed to town hoping Tractor Supply would have one. I got about 4 miles down the road and it was shutdown due to a wreck. I could see it would be awhile so I turned around and went back thru Raywood to Liberty. Finally at Tractor Supply I got the only sleeve left that would fit my truck. I headed back home , took a chance that the wreck would be cleared up but nope still shut down. Turned around and went back the long way. Finally got everything hooked up and loaded except our cold goods. Thursday morning we got on the road about 9:30 am. Traffic was pretty good so it was an easy drive. We stopped in Giddings at the Dairy Queen for lunch, it has trailer parking in back so its easy. Filled the truck up with gas and headed on. We got to Jim Hogg Park on Lake Georgetown about 2:30 pm. It was our first time to stay here and it was really nice. We got a great spot right on the lake. Great spot for winter camping but would be hot in summer as no shade. There were not many folks here and they were mostly snowbirds. It was a beautiful day. Friday morning was pretty cold and the wind picked up pretty good. We stayed in camp all day. Susan did some sewing and Cooper and I took several walks around the park. Sammi"s volleyball games started on Saturday but we were in the evening wave so our first game didnt start till 4:00pm. They played poorly andonly won 1 game and lost two. We got home about 10:15 pm. Luckily our first game Sunday started about 11:30 so we didn't have to get there early. We played a little better and won both our games so we finished 3-2 for the weekend. We got back to cmap about 4:30. Got up Monday morning and headed home. Lots of traffic coming home but we made it. We go back in three weeks for another tournament.

Jan 2-5 2026 San Antonio Volleyball Tournament

 Friday morning we left for San Antonio. Sammi has her first  volleyball tournament of the year. Usually we take our trailer and stay in the area for awhile.  Since we were only going to stay 3 nights we opted to do a vrbo.  It was way to expensive for us to stay on the riverwalk plus we needed a pet friendly place for Cooper. I found a little cottage about 2 miles from the convention center.  Of course on the way we stopped in Luling so Susan could go to a quilt shop. We arrived in SA about 3:00.  Our little cottage turned out to be pretty nice , we had a small fenced yard and a driveway with a gate we could lock.  Our little neighbor was a safe place but you didn't"t have to go far for things to change.  For supper we headed out to a restaurant that got good reviews. As it turned out it was closed and I wasn't"t found of the location. It's been about 20 years since we had been to San Antonio, I had forgot how crazy the streets are, even my Google maps got confused.  I finally pulled over to figure out where I was , luckily across the street was a steakhouse and there were a lot of cars so I told Susan we will just eat here.  It turned out to be really good. Our car navigaton got us back home.  I reserved an Ubber for Saturday morning to get is to the convention center. Our first game was at 8:30 am.  This year our vb team is playing in the open division which is the top division. We knew this would tough as there would only be very good teams.  We finished 1-2 the first day. We played terrible the first game. After they they got on track and the rest of the games were very competitive.  We were so tired that evening when we got home we just door dashed Mexican food for supper I also ordered tacos so we would have breakfast the next morning.  Sunday the games were running behind and our 11:30 game didn't start till 12:15.  Won that in 3 sets. Our next game started pretty quick after that. We won in three sets but they were very close. We finished 3-2 for the weekend .  It was probably 4 when we got back  to our cottage. So glad we were staying another night because I was tired. We called another order in and we just chilled. Monday morning we left about 8. It was an easy drive home, couldn't believe we got thru Houston with light traffic.  Our next tournament is in Austin Jan 17,18,