From big trip to little trip

Well today, as I'm writing this, Guillermo and I were supposed to be on a plane headed to Calgary.  We have postponed the trip hopefully for a later date.  We are going to miss Fernando, Eva and especially little Leo very very much.  We look forward to seeing them in the not too distant future.

So instead, today we are going to take a little drive up to Wimberley.  We both love the hill country and the little town of Wimberley.  The weather is perfect right now - not too cool and not too hot.  Our thought was maybe spend the night up there around Wimberley, but we have had no luck in finding a place that had availability.  And we certainly don't want to spend our night up there in a chain hotel.  So, we'll just drive up there, have lunch and then come back home.

We have been wanting to go up to Wimberley ever since the devastating flood back in May.  To this day, I still cannot get the thought of that family that died in the flooding out of my mind.  Maybe it's because when we were flooding back in '98, I looked out the window of Rebeca's room, saw all the water around us and thought, "We could die today".  When one is in the middle of the event, there is no way to know how bad things are going to get until it is over.  I'm sure that family stood at their window, saw the river all around them, and thought the exact same thing I did.  Except in their case, they actually did die.

I'd like to think that if we had been in their situation, we would have gotten out of that house at the first sign of trouble.  I'd like to think that we would have known, if your house is on stilts, you HAVE to leave way ahead of time even though it looks like it's not that bad yet, because once the water is too high on those stilts, there IS no leaving.  Even if it's false alarms over and over again.

 But I just don't know.  We also stayed in our house as things started getting worse and worse.  Our house wasn't on a big river so probably no matter how deep the water got that day, it wasn't going to knock our house off of its foundation.  The flood was a horrible thing, but at LEAST we came out of it.  I remain forever thankful for that.