Canyon Lake!

Last weekend Jonathan and I took a trip to Canyon Lake and spent the weekend with friends. We headed up on Friday and made a stop in Lockhart so we could go to Kreus for some barbecue! Lockhart and Luling are two very small towns that are known for some of the best barbecue in Texas. Jonathan being a huge foodie meant that we definitely had to try at least one of the best known restaurants in the area. Kreus was quite an impressive place. When we walked inside it actually got warmer (if you can believe that in the middle of summer in Texas). After walking down the hall I realized why. The end of the hall opened into a huge room where they were actually smoking their meats. That's where you ordered your meat and then you went into a different room that where you ordered your sides and ate your meal. That room was thankfully air conditioned. The food was pretty good but they were out of brisket. Sad day! I guess we'll have to go back...

It's a huge place!

They have a lot of rules. The no forks rule was a little hard to work around but we didn't mind the no bbq sauce rule!

Check out where you order! Behind the people are where all the meat is in smokers!

Yay air conditioning lol.

Saturday we all went tubing along Canyon Lake. It was my first time tubing so I was pumped to finally cross it off my bucket list. We spent about 3 hours on the lake just hanging out, drinking and snacking, and enjoying the water. I am quite proud to say that I didn't get sunburned! I tend to either forget to apply sunscreen or apply it really poorly and end up with weird sunburn designs all over me. So after 3 hours on the water in the sun we were pooped. We stopped and picked up pizza on the way back to the house and spent the rest of the afternoon being lazy. Check out the amazing view from the house we rented:

The lake was so beautiful. It's such a relaxing place to get away.

Sunday we headed out early to get to church. The church was on the other side of the lake and was in a beautiful area tucked behind a woodsy area. The parking lot was lined with the stations of the cross which was just beautiful. Lucky for us, the overlook park was right next to the church so we made a stop there before heading back to Houston.

Stations of the cross :-)

Even the parking lot was beautiful!

That's the church hidden behind the trees.

Beautiful view at the overlook park. You can walk down the damn but we were too tired to walk too far.

We were pretty exhausted but we did want to make one more stop. We always love going to wineries when we're in the Texas Wine Country. Jonathan gets his BBQ so I get my wine right? Our route took us right through Gruene, TX so we stopped at Winery on the Gruene.

Such a cute place!

Gruene was an adorable town! It looked like there was tons of cute shops and restaurants and there were so many people walking around. It's officially been added to my list of places that I need to go back to. Unfortunately we were also going to stop at Luling Barbecue on the way back but they are closed on Sundays. O well, I'm sure we'll be back again! I think we'll have to go back and stay along the lake again now that I know how relaxing and awesome it is! We had a great and long 4th of July weekend. My sister visited and we had a great time. I'll tell you all about it soon! 

- Chelsey