Took the new gnome out on a trip to Lake Houston State Park. We got an early start and arrived around 8:00am. There was still dew on the ground and lots of spiderwebs glittened in the sunshine. Very few people were out and about. (one guy on a bicycle, and later two people with their hiking poles) Seeing the poles reminded us that we should have brought ours. The trail wasn't too uneven or hilly to even need the poles. We wandered along a hike/bike trail. It was starting to get warm so we thought we would go back. We came across the equestrian trail and decided to follow it back to parking area. It has not been used as much as the other trails. The plants have grown over the trail more and the spiders webs are all over the trails. At one point John invented the Spider Dance. He had a HUGE Banana spider crawling on him. He is asking me to get it off his back. All I could do is stand back in terror and utter "It's on you" over and over again. Other than the creepy spiders we saw a deer, a squirrel, lots of little lizards, cardinals, and a really noisy barking dog. As we were leaving we saw a couple launching a canoe under the bridge into Peach creek. It looked like fun. We need to do this sometime.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Lake Houston State Park
Took the new gnome out on a trip to Lake Houston State Park. We got an early start and arrived around 8:00am. There was still dew on the ground and lots of spiderwebs glittened in the sunshine. Very few people were out and about. (one guy on a bicycle, and later two people with their hiking poles) Seeing the poles reminded us that we should have brought ours. The trail wasn't too uneven or hilly to even need the poles. We wandered along a hike/bike trail. It was starting to get warm so we thought we would go back. We came across the equestrian trail and decided to follow it back to parking area. It has not been used as much as the other trails. The plants have grown over the trail more and the spiders webs are all over the trails. At one point John invented the Spider Dance. He had a HUGE Banana spider crawling on him. He is asking me to get it off his back. All I could do is stand back in terror and utter "It's on you" over and over again. Other than the creepy spiders we saw a deer, a squirrel, lots of little lizards, cardinals, and a really noisy barking dog. As we were leaving we saw a couple launching a canoe under the bridge into Peach creek. It looked like fun. We need to do this sometime.
Lake Houston Park
We didn't actually go to Lake Houston State Park. Last week the park became a Houston city park. The state park sign was still there so a photographed both. We have been to the state park a couple of times before. It has lots of hiking, biking & equestrian trails. There are camping and cabins for overnight stays. We have not camped here but want to in the future. Very quiet. A great place to go to get away from it all. Only saw eleven people the whole time we were in park. That is probably a busy day because of the holiday weekend.
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